Parenting For A Peaceful World [Paperback]

 

 

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In this book you will discover the potential of "social evolution." The power of humans, within generations, to change the way we relate with one another and the planet through the way we raise our children! The key is in our children's Emotional Development, or Emotional Intelligence: being aware of their own emotions, feeling safe to genuinely express them, while being sensitive to the emotions of others. This book critiques the parenting methods over the centuries up until today: corporal punishment (less common today), shaming and rewards/praise-based manipulation. These methods do not value children! Rather than coerce children into supressing their emotions, and complying to their parents' or the "norm's" needs through fear and manipulation, Grille argues that parent's must CONNECT with their children, not CONTROL them. He argues, with chapters of historical evidence, that the world's problems can be traced to controlling parenting methods that supress childrens' emotional development. For example, violence, war, vandalism, and crime, are behaviours driven by anger that their perportrators never properly learned to process in childhood. Rather than carefully responding to this emotion, or being assertive, people supress it until they explode, and/or express it through destructive hostility. This is just one example of how profound a human's crippled emotional development can hamper our relationships, our communication and our ability to respond to and express our emotions (in a healthy manner!).

Most importantly, this book explains how every child has an innate capacity for morality, empathy, compassion and love. Parents: by being real, by genuinely expressing how they feel and by modelling empathy, can nurture this capacity in their children to last well into adulthood. This book gives numerous, satisfying and practical examples and methods of how emotional development can be fostered, in parents and your children.

Grille defines happiness as living autonomously; out of our inherent choices, interests, gravitations and abilities. It is through being genuine, connecting with your children, listening to them, and nurturing their emotional development that you give them the sense of security and trust, freedom and confidence to live autonomously. The ability to live for what's best for them, while being genuine and naturally empathetic to everyone and everything else. Instead of living to please the parent and society's norms, while being utterly confused about what they want and about what their inner emotional messages mean.

This book has changed my life, and especially my perspective on parenting like no other! The solution to our problems is in how we raise our children!

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