Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child


Review

“This practical guide is a powerful tool to beef up the development of mindsight—how we know our own mind, connect with others, and respect differences. Collaborating with our children and teens is an important skill Ross Greene inspires us to acquire to help our kids learn the lifelong capacity to problem solve, be empathic, and transform more insightful. Filled with captivating stories and clear steps, Raising Human Beings will help you raise thoughtful and resilient individuals.”—Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. New York Times bestselling creator of Brainstorm and co-creator of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline

“Ross Greene takes a deep dive into the complexities of raising a human being and emerges with guidelines that are clear, doable, and sure to empower both parents and their children.”–Adele Faber, co-creator of How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

“Want to know how to prepare your child for the innovation era? How to raise a child who knows who he or she is and can collaborate and solve problems creatively? Ross Greene will show you how in this book. Practice the parenting approach he describes, and your child will thrive!”—Tony Wagner, creator of The Global Achievement Gap and Creating Innovators

“Parents and children far and wide will have the benefit of Dr. Greene’s insights into everyday parent-child interactions. His empathic understanding of families’ daily struggles shines through the entire book. He provides realistic, concrete, and effective guidance for turning those struggles from confrontation to collaboration. Bravo!”–Joan E. Durrant, PhD, creator of Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting, Associate Professor of Family Social Sciences, University of Manitoba

“A brilliant, practical guide on how to raise children in such a way that they are going to transform the people we all want our children to transform.  Brimming with specific tips and how-to details, as well as encouragement and optimism rooted in decades of experience, this book can quickly transform any parent’s go-to resource day in and day out, especially in those moments when you feel at wit’s end.  Bravo, Dr. Greene!”–Ned Hallowell, New York Times bestselling creator and ADHD expert

“Inspirational . . . This book is a game changer for parents, teachers, and other caregivers. Its advice is reasonable and empathetic, and readers will feel ready to start creating a better relationship with the children in their lives.”–Publishers Weekly STARRED review

 

“Not only does Dr. Greene teach us how to be collaborative partners in our children’s development, but how to both raise and to get up as better human beings.”–GeekDad

 “Easy to follow…stuffed with examples and mock adult-child conversations…makes a powerful case for rethinking typical approaches to parenting and disciplining children. “–The Atlantic

About the Author

Dr. Ross W. Greene is the creator of Raising Human Beings, Lost and Found, Lost at School, and The Explosive Child. Dr. Greene was on the faculty at Harvard Medical School for over twenty years, and is now founding director of the nonprofit organization Lives in the Balance (LivesintheBalance.org), through which he disseminates the model of care—now called Collaborative & Proactive Solutions—described in his books. Dr. Greene’s research has been funded by the US Department of Education, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Stanley Medical Research Institute, and the Maine Juvenile Justice Advisory Group. He speaks widely all through the world.

Renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling creator of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship even as also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence.Parents have an important task: figure out who their child is—his or her skills, preferences, beliefs, values, personality traits, goals, and direction—get comfortable with it, and then help them pursue and live a life according to it. Yet parents also want their kids to be independent, but not if they will make bad choices. They want to avoid being too overbearing, but not if an apathetic kid is what they have to show for it. They want to have a good relationship with their kids, but not if that means being a pushover. They don’t want to scream, but they do want to be heard. Good parenting is about striking the balance between a child’s characteristics and a parent’s desire to have influence. Dr. Ross Greene “makes a powerful case for rethinking typical approaches to parenting and disciplining children” (The Atlantic). Through his well-known model of solving problems collaboratively, parents can forgo timeout and sticker charts; stop badgering, berating, threatening, and punishing; allow their kids to feel heard and validated; and have influence. From homework to hygiene, curfews, to screen time, Dr. Greene “arms parents with guidelines that are clear, doable, and sure to empower both parents and their children” (Adele Faber, coauthor of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen). Raising Human Beings is “inspirational…a game-changer for parents, teachers, and other caregivers. Its advice is reasonable and empathetic, and readers will feel ready to start creating a better relationship with the children in their lives” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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