Parenting from Your Heart: Sharing the Gifts of Compassion, Connection, and Choice (Nonviolent Communication Guides) - Softcover

Kashtan, Inbal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1892005085 ISBN 13: 9781892005083

Verlag: PUDDLEDANCER PR, 2004

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Parenting that Promotes Peace&;Parents everywhere want to connect compassionately with their children, to show them love and offer guidance even in difficult moments. In this packed and practical booklet, Inbal Kashtan describes how the practicing the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process can transform parenting to promote peace for generations to come.

Whether you're parenting a teenager or an infant, the parenting help and guidance you'll find in this booklet will transform your challenges and conflicts into opportunities to parent from your heart. Find NVC-based parenting tips and ten practical exercises to foster trust and improve cooperation even in the most trying circumstances. Learn how to make connection your top priority, share power in your family and inspire open dialogue that promotes mutual understanding.

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Inbal Kashtan was the parenting project coordinator for the Center for Nonviolent Communication. Her work on parenting has been published in Mothering and other magazines. Inbal founded the NVC Parenting Peer Leadership Program and was the first to create an NVC Family Camp. Inbal also co-founded BayNVC, the BayNVC Leadership Program, and the BayNVC Diversity Project. After living with cancer for several years, Inbal passed away in 2014.

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Parenting From Your Heart

Sharing the Gifts of Compassion, Connection, and Choice

By Inbal Kashtan

PuddleDancer Press

Copyright © 2005 PuddleDancer Press
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-892005-08-3

Contents

Introduction, 
"Power- Over" versus "Power- With", 
Exercise 1: Basic Translations, 
Exercise 2: Translating into NVC, 
Beyond Power Struggles, 
Exercise 3: Transforming Habitual Responses, 
Exercise 4: Timing Conversations, 
Hearing the "Yes" in the "No", 
Exercise 5: Working with "No", 
Protective Use of Force, 
Exercise 6: Considering Use of Force, 
NVC and Language, 
Exercise 7: Beyond Language, 
Mediating Between Children, 
Exercise 8: Mediating Between Children, 
Praise, 
Exercise 9: Gratitude and Appreciation, 
Starting Out with NVC, 
Exercise 10: Next Steps, 
Parenting for Peace, 
About Inbal Kashtan, 
How You Can Use the NVC Process, 

CHAPTER 1

Parenting From Your Heart

Introduction

How can we deal with our two-year-old when she grabs her friend's toys? What might we say to a four-year-old who refuses to let other children slide on the playground? How can we talk with a teenager about the chores he has left undone — again? How do we protect our children when their choices endanger their safety? What resources will help us work with our own anger, frustration, or pain when communication with our children seems strained or non-existent?

As parents, we are constantly faced with situations like these. Multiply the children and the challenges mount. Add the pressures of work (or unemployment), money (or lack thereof), time, relationships, and other commitments, and the pot threatens to boil over. Then, for some, there are the stresses of raising children alone, without a partner, extended family, or community. And there are myriad additional challenges many parents face. It is no wonder parents yearn for support, guidance, and relief. Yet when we turn to parenting books or experts, the advice we find is often contradictory and may not align with our own values and hopes for our children and families. Even when we do find an idea we want to try, changing habits and patterns in relationships can be enormously challenging in itself.

In this booklet, I present to parents and others who are connected with children a brief introduction to how Nonviolent Communication™ (NVC) may support their parenting in practical, immediate ways. I particularly hope to address parents' yearning for deeper connection with themselves, their partnners, and their children, and their desire to contribute, through parenting, to fostering peace in the world. The approach I describe, as you will see, goes beyond immediate solutions and into the realm of personal and social transformation.

This booklet explores a variety of topics and situations and offers ten exercises to help you put into practice what you are learning as you shift or adapt your parenting approaches. However, it is by no means a comprehensive exploration of NVC and parenting. I have not touched upon many topics that have come up in my workshops and classes, on the NVC-parenting email list, and in my own life. I hope, nonetheless, that what I have covered here will be practical enough to offer you some concrete tools for deepening connection with your children, and exciting enough to encourage you to consider learning even more. If you choose to put these ideas into practice and they make a difference in your family life, I would love to hear from you.

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• Verlag: PUDDLEDANCER PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1892005085
• ISBN 13: 9781892005083
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 48
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