What Do You Really Want for Your Children?电子书

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Introduction

1

The Ability to Enjoy Life

Being an Example

What You Know vs. How You Feel

The Affective Domain

2

Self-Image

How We Inadvertently Lower Self-Confidence and Self-Worth in Our Children

What Are Your Payoffs When You Contribute to a Lowered Self-Image in Your Child?

Basic Principles for Building Self-Esteem in Your Children

Strategies for Raising a Child’s Self-Portrait

3

Learning to Welcome the Unknown

Becoming Sensible About Failing

Risk-Taking

A Creative Imagination

How We Discourage a Positive Attitude Toward Change

The Psychological Support System for Discouraging Risk-Taking

Ideas for Encouraging Children to Seek Out, Rather Than Fear, the Unknown

4

They Feel as They Learn to Think

How Blame Works

They Are Always Making Choices

Choosing Inner Rather Than Outer Direction

Curbing Their Need for Approval

Typical Child and Parental Behaviors Which Inhibit Inner Development

The Psychological Support System That You Receive for Raising Outer-Directed Children

Action Strategies for Helping Children to Be Nonblamers and Inner-Directed

5

What Is Freedom from Anxiety?

No More Guilt

Farewell to Worry

No More Type A Toddlers

Some Typical Anxiety-Producing Behaviors

The Support System for Keeping the Pressure on Children

Some Strategies for No-Anxiety Parenting

6

You Can Stop Having the Same Old Family Fights

Some Typical Family Fights

Basic Principles to Adopt as Guidelines for Eliminating the “Same Old Fights”

Understanding Anger

Discipline for No-Limit Living

How We Can Inadvertently Create Angry, Fighting, Undisciplined Attitudes

Your Psychological Support System for Anger and Family Fights

Some Useful Techniques for Eliminating Those Family Fights and Creating a Harmonious Atmosphere for Everyone

7

The Purest Form of Sanity

Accepting Children Where They Are

The Joy of Present-Moment Living

Toward More Peak Experiences

Some Typical Actions That Inhibit Present-Moment Living for You and Your Children

Some of the Payoffs for Discouraging Present-Moment Living

Some Strategies for Present-Moment Living

8

Developing a Wellness Attitude with Children

How to Model Wellness

Why Your Children Need Wellness

Using Visualization for Wellness

Wellness and a Sense of Humor

Some Common Anti-Wellness Parental Actions

Your Support System for Not Promoting Wellness

Some Techniques for Implementing Wellness in Your Child Rearing

9

What Is Creativity in Children?

A Brief Portrait of Creative Children

Some Typical Ways We Inadvertently Interfere with Children’s Natural Creative Inclinations

Your Payoffs for Keeping Children from Developing Their Creativity

Some Sample Strategies for Raising Your Children on a Regular Diet of Creativity

10

Climbing the Ladder of Needs That Ends with a Sense of Purpose

Physical Needs

Love and Belongingness Needs

The Need for Self-Esteem and Esteem by Others

Growth Needs (Freedom, Justice, Order, Individuality, Meaningfulness, Self-Sufficiency, Simplicity, Playfulness, Aliveness)

Higher Needs (Truth, Beauty, Aesthetic Appreciation, Goodness, Spiritual Awakening)

The Top of the Ladder—No-Limit Living

Some Specific Techniques for Helping Children to the Top of the Ladder and to a Sense of Purpose

Appendix

Searchable Terms

About the Author

Books by Wayne W. Dyer

Copyright

About the Publisher