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The Book of Nurturing

The Book of Nurturing

Nine Natural Laws for Enriching Your Family Life

by Richard Eyre and Linda Eyre
Hardback
Publication Date: 22/04/2003

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Positioned as a prequel to the bestselling Teaching Your Children Values, The Book of Nurturing works on the premise that before you can teach your children values, you must learn how to value you children. The enormous success of Teaching Your Children Values (it was the first parenting book since Dr Spock's Baby and Child Care in 1946 to top the New York Times Bestseller list) was accompanied by an overwhelmingly positive response by parents. The Eyres, however, were also receiving letters from parents who felt discouraged when it came time to put the principles outlined in the book into practice. It became apparent to the Eyres that what these parents needed most was a book to lay forth tools for working on the fundamentals of family relationships - a book about establishing the principles that turn a house into a home and create the environment and atmosphere that enable values to be taught and learned. What emerged from their efforts was The Book of Nurturing, a book that contains nine simple, but powerful lessons for parents that can protect and preserve families and give children a sense of worth and esteem.
Each lesson has been couched in a simple story or fable drawn from personal experience or the remarkable characteristics of nature's creatures. The fable leaves the reader with a symbol that makes the lesson live in our minds and resonate in our hearts so that we put it into practice automatically, naturally, and even subconsciously. The nine lessons that the Eyres felt were most critical to the success of a family are: 1. The Nature of Commitment: The Law of the Geese. Geese mate for life and though they migrate thousands of miles, they always return home. 2. The Nature of Praise: The Lesson of the Crabs. You need only a shallow bucket when you catch crabs as one will instinctively pull the other down should he try to climb out. 3. The Nature of Responsibility: The Lesson of the Bear. When you meet a "bear" do you confront him or outrun him? 4. The Nature of Awareness: The Lesson of the Frog. Frogs, like people, can get cooked when they lose their awareness or stay too long in a comfort zone. 5. The Nature of Communication: The Lesson of the Whales. Humpback whales communicate constantly within their families, and never interrupt! 6.
The Nature of Discipline: The Lesson of the Elephant. A parent elephant can lift a 500 pound log or pick a single blade of grass with her trunk. 7. The Nature of Consistency: The Lesson of the Tortoise. Steadiness, consistency, and endurance always win. 8. The Nature of Security: The Lesson of the Redwoods. Redwoods have short, shallow roots, but they intertwine for the support that they need. 9. The Nature of Freedom: The Lesson of the Fleas. Keep fleas in a box long enough and they'll never fly above lid level, even when the lid is gone.
ISBN:
9780071415064
9780071415064
Category:
Advice on parenting
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
22-04-2003
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
224
Dimensions (mm):
231x160x21mm
Weight:
0.47kg
Richard Eyre

Richard and Linda Eyre are New York Times #1 bestselling authors whose writing career has spanned four decades and whose books have sold in the millions. They have appeared on virtually all major national talk shows, including Oprah and Today, and have seen their books translated into a dozen languages.

They write a syndicated weekly newspaper column and currently spend most of their time traveling and speaking to audiences throughout the world on families, parenting, and life-balance (and trying to keep up with their twenty-six grandchildren). The Eyres' vision statement is "Fortify families by celebrating commitment, popularizing parenting, bolstering balance, and validating values." The Eyres live in Park City, Utah.

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