Life Ki-do Parenting
Tools to Raise Happy Confident Kids from the Inside Out
by Jonathan Hewitt
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Pub Date Aug 14 2012 | Archive Date Oct 18 2012
Smith Publicity -- Greenleaf Book Group | River Grove Books
Description
Focused, confident, resilient, and compassionate-what more could parents want for their kids?
Under the tremendous pressure and influence of peers and media today, children are being conditioned to follow the "American Happiness Formula": look good + perform well + get approval = happiness. Yet rather than offering fulfillment and confidence, this outwardly based quest is causing alarming rates of childhood stress, anxiety, and depression. Life Ki-do Parenting provides the antidote, giving you the techniques to help your child find true and lasting happiness from within.
Integrating twenty years of experience teaching life skills and martial arts to thousands of children, twenty-five years of mindfulness and meditation study, and data and research from modern psychology and neuroscience, Jonathan Hewitt developed the Tools for Life system.
River Check-In for improving focus River Effort for building confidence and a strong sense of self A-B Formula for developing resilience when facing life's challenges My Shoes, Your Shoes, Our Shoes for cultivating social intelligenceThese four original tools empower children with the critical skills they need to thrive today and into adulthood. Going beyond concept and theory, they give you kid-friendly vocabulary and a simple process for helping your children look inward to monitor themselves rather than looking outward to others for their validation and self-worth. What greater peace can you have as a parent than knowing you have given your child the roots and wings to successfully navigate their way through life?
Advance Praise
"The Hewitts have created a reasoned, empathic, and wise guide to preparing all children to mature into happy, healthy, and resilient adults. This is a book I will highly recommend." -Sam Goldstein PhD, coauthor of Raising Resilient Children
"It didn't take me long to get hooked reading this must-have guidebook for parents who want to help their children combat peer pressure and bullying. Unlike other temporary, band-aid solutions, this book will truly help your child develop the kind of inner confidence and resilience that cannot be bullied away. Children will love the simple, empowering strategies." - Jane Nelsen, EdD, author of Positive Discipline
"Being a parent today is not easy, but Life Ki-do can make it easier! Using easy-to-understand analogies, it helps parents and children understand better ways to deal with both failure and success and build better relationships with others." - Jean M. Twenge, PhD, author of Generation Me and The Impatient Woman's Guide to Getting Pregnant
"This book is for any parent concerned about building their child's self-esteem (what parent isn't?) but not with trophies, stickers and ‘good job' accolades. The Hewitts understand where true self-esteem comes from and offer clear, easy, and kid-friendly steps for guiding even the shyest child toward self-confidence and assertiveness first by accepting and acknowledging whatever life puts in front of them. This is where education should start. If it did we would be raising communities of kind, responsible, caring citizens." - Bonnie Harris, director of Connective Parenting and author of Confident Parents, Remarkable Kids and When Your Kids Push Your Buttons
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781936909568 |
| PRICE | $14.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 168 |
