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The Conscious Parent
by Clare Healy Walls
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 3rd September, 2007
ISBN: 978-1-906018-21-4
Price: €15
This book asks parents to question the parenting techniques inherited from previous generations and to become conscious of the way in which they influence their children.
Society is moving on from using violence to solve differences. Parents are moving on from using violence to discipline and educate their children. Consciousness is the tool many people are using to move forward. Parents can use consciousness as a tool to equip themselves and their children for the new world. This book asks parents to question the parenting techniques inherited from previous generations and to become conscious of the way in which they influence their children. Old methods of parenting such as negative criticism, punishment and reward are due to be discarded. Parenting in our time needs to be based on respect, contained freedom, clear guidance and, above all, consciousness, the ability to stop and think about what we, as parents, do to our children.
About the author
Clare Healy Walls was born and educated in Ireland. She has worked for many years in Scandinavia as a Montessori teacher trainer and life skills lecturer. She has drawn on the works of the Italian educator Maria Montessori, the Canadian Jungian analyst Marion Woodman, and the Irish psychologist, Tony Humphreys. Clare integrated these influences into her own life experiences and work and so created a new philosophy on conscious parenting. She has five children and eight grandchildren. She lives in Ireland and Portugal.
