Reviews for Spiritual Parenting: A Guide to Understanding and Nurturing the Heart of Your Child

The average rating for Spiritual Parenting: A Guide to Understanding and Nurturing the Heart of Your Child based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-06-12 00:00:00 Ken Franke I read this a long time ago, when struggling with the stress of being a single parent, worrying about my kids turning out all right, and afraid to reflexively follow in my parents' footsteps. This book shifted my whole approach to parenting. Instead of focusing on how to figure out how and when to punish for what behavior, I learned to pay more attention to what was in my heart (and what was in theirs). It was not so much about what to do, as to remember that my job as a parent is to guide my child with love. I gradually found myself not only scolding them less, but not having behaviors arise that would trigger scolding. The more I approached discipline and guidance from a perspective of love, the better they behaved and the easier it was to discern what behavior really called for any kind of reaction from me. At least, that's how it seems when I look back, many years after I read the book. (By the way, this is not a religious book. They use the term "spiritual" in the sense that it focuses on spirit rather than a psychological or behavioral child-rearing theory.)

Review # 2 was written on 2011-08-09 00:00:00 Grant Knutson I learned a lot from this book, but sometimes it was over the top.