Parenting from the Inside Out – How a deeper self-understanding can help you raise children who thrive by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and Mary Hartzell, M.Ed.
Over the years I have heard many parents say to me “I can
only give what I got” as a response to questions about their parenting. They were stating that the parenting they
received as children impacted their parenting as adults and they were not able
to do any better as a result. This is only
half true.
In Dr. Dan Siegel and Mary Hartzell’s book, Parenting from the Inside Out, the
reader is given an understanding of how our childhoods impact how we parent and
what we can do to change some of those patterns in order to enhance and repair our
relationships with our children and increase their resiliency.
The book is laid out in a way that is easily
accessible. There is information on
brain science that is presented in terms that are understandable but is also as
an addendum to each chapter so that it can be scanned over and reviewed later. There are also exercises/questions for
parents to use to go deeper in examining old patterns and making changes.
Dr. Siegel http://drdansiegel.com/about/biography/
is a clinical psychiatrist at the UCLA School of Medicine and has a done a number
of TED talks on neurobiology that are easy to grasp for those of us who are not
scientists. Mary Hartzell is a child development specialist and parent
educator http://maryhartzell.com/Welcome.html Together they bring together an understanding
of attachment theory, compassion and mindsight in a way that is non-blaming and
empowering for parents who truly want to raise children who thrive.
