Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids
About the book
Author: Hunter Clarke-Fields
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
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My review
This came recommended by a good friend, and while it wasn’t a total game-changer for me, it definitely has some really helpful advice.
Raising Good Humans is a guide to more mindful, intentional parenting, specifically about breaking reactive patterns and modeling the emotional regulation you want your kids to develop. Hunter Clarke-Fields emphasizes a meditation practice and mindfulness throughout as the foundation from which all good communication and modeling comes from. I found a lot of it genuinely helpful, particularly while my daughter is still very young. As long as you aren’t too allergic to that level of woo-woo, I think you’ll get plenty out of this one too.
I will say, I'd also strongly recommend getting the print version over audio. A significant chunk of the content is Clarke-Fields walking you through exercises she wants you to actually do, and that gets repetitive and a bit annoying when you're just listening.
