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Don't Let Your Kids Be Normal: A Partnership for a Different World

In the midst of our planetary woes, Dr. Gerry Fewster offers a timely reminder that every child has the inherent potential to reach beyond the status quo and create a future of meaning and purpose. Adults who recognize this potential can change the course of human destiny through their relationships with children – one child at a time. To this end, Fewster urges us to reconsider our most basic beliefs and radically revise our parenting and professional practices. If we continue to call upon the experts and pharmaceutical companies to bring our kids into line, that inherent potential may never be expressed. We do have options. Unlike most parenting and professional manuals, this book makes no attempt to diminish the magnitude of our task by trotting out more mindless prescriptions for perennial problems. With examples drawn from his own personal and professional experiences, Fewster invites the thoughtful reader to consider a unique range of possibilities that transform prescriptive parenting into a conscious and co-creative enterprise. It’s time to drop the old cliché about children being our future, we are their future and they need us more than ever before.

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Don't Let Your Kids Be Normal: A Partnership for a Different World

In the midst of our planetary woes, Dr. Gerry Fewster offers a timely reminder that every child has the inherent potential to reach beyond the status quo and create a future of meaning and purpose. Adults who recognize this potential can change the course of human destiny through their relationships with children – one child at a time. To this end, Fewster urges us to reconsider our most basic beliefs and radically revise our parenting and professional practices. If we continue to call upon the experts and pharmaceutical companies to bring our kids into line, that inherent potential may never be expressed. We do have options. Unlike most parenting and professional manuals, this book makes no attempt to diminish the magnitude of our task by trotting out more mindless prescriptions for perennial problems. With examples drawn from his own personal and professional experiences, Fewster invites the thoughtful reader to consider a unique range of possibilities that transform prescriptive parenting into a conscious and co-creative enterprise. It’s time to drop the old cliché about children being our future, we are their future and they need us more than ever before.

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Don't Let Your Kids Be Normal: A Partnership for a Different World

Don't Let Your Kids Be Normal: A Partnership for a Different World

by Dr. Gerry Fewster
Don't Let Your Kids Be Normal: A Partnership for a Different World

Don't Let Your Kids Be Normal: A Partnership for a Different World

by Dr. Gerry Fewster

Overview

In the midst of our planetary woes, Dr. Gerry Fewster offers a timely reminder that every child has the inherent potential to reach beyond the status quo and create a future of meaning and purpose. Adults who recognize this potential can change the course of human destiny through their relationships with children – one child at a time. To this end, Fewster urges us to reconsider our most basic beliefs and radically revise our parenting and professional practices. If we continue to call upon the experts and pharmaceutical companies to bring our kids into line, that inherent potential may never be expressed. We do have options. Unlike most parenting and professional manuals, this book makes no attempt to diminish the magnitude of our task by trotting out more mindless prescriptions for perennial problems. With examples drawn from his own personal and professional experiences, Fewster invites the thoughtful reader to consider a unique range of possibilities that transform prescriptive parenting into a conscious and co-creative enterprise. It’s time to drop the old cliché about children being our future, we are their future and they need us more than ever before.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781907498152
Publisher: Influence Publishing Inc
Publication date: 03/17/2010
Pages: 424
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

Dr. Gerry Fewster is an educator, writer and psychotherapist. For over twenty years he was Executive Director of one of Canada’s largest privately operated treatment centers for troubled children and their families. He has held teaching positions at three universities and is currently Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at the University of Calgary. He was the editor of the Journal of Child and Youth Care for almost twenty years and editor of Relational Child and Youth Care Practice. He now lives on Vancouver Island where he and his partner, Judith, direct the Pacific North West Institute of Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP), one of ten international institutes dedicated to the advancement of human potential. Together the Fewsters maintain a private practice, specializing in relationship therapy.

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