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Another Dalai Lama book! So this co-author on this one is Shefali Tsabary, who also wrote The Awakened Family which is a New York Times Best Seller and was a book endorsed by Oprah. “Parents . . . you will be wowed and awed by [Dr. Shefali].” —Oprah Winfrey The Conscious Parent won the Nautilus award in 2011. I would recommend this book to any parent. I found it very helpful and trying to slow down and remember that my kids are going to remember things that I don’t think are a big deal. Every time I lose it my kids will remember that and it will go into the idea of who I am in their eyes. I highlighted substantially in this book. Here are some lines I think are worth sharing:
perfection is an ideal of the foolish.
when we are in the grip of anger, we are anything but in control. We are prisoners of ego.
“It’s okay to be bored. There’s nothing wrong with feeling bored. Keep being bored.”
On weekends, my daughter is allowed an hour of television or an hour on the computer.
Not that they will blindly follow your dictates, but that they will seek your counsel
[to our children] I learn how to be a better person from you.
truly hearing what they are saying, without feeling we have to fix, correct, or lecture.
The smallest, “I don’t know, but let’s find out together,” has the power to evoke the most profound of life qualities.
we often don’t take the time or exercise the patience required to get at the why,
For a young child, times to nap and go to bed are aspects of the main rules and as such are non-negotiable.
If the parent is resolute, the child will quickly pick up that there is no argument around this issue.
The traditional dynamic of parent-versus-child would yield to the realization that our children are often wiser than us and able to advance us spiritually just as effectively as we can advance them.
I know that’s a lot but, I thought every one of them was worth sharing. The highest praise I can give a book is buying extra copies to give other people. This is a book that I can defiantly think of buying extra copies for friends and family.