Naomi Aldort is a world-renowned author, lecturer and coach, as well as a wonderful wife and mother of three wonderful children. For more than twenty years, Naomi has been advising families from different countries, helping people to know themselves, become better, live in harmony with themselves and their loved ones.
Our task is to raise children emotionally strong and wise, able to face reality. We want to build a fear-free and loving relationship with our children. Relationships that allow them to express any emotion and be confident in their worth. And this, in turn, strengthens the self-confidence they need to build a meaningful life and pass on the positive to others.
Review of Naomi Aldort's book "Growing a Child, Growing Up": A wonderful book of salvation for parents who may have despaired and decided that they lost in parenthood. Naomi addresses the reader from the standpoint of complete acceptance and unconditional love. Even a simple reading of a book can be a therapy that heals the wounds of a lost childhood. And the reason for that is the full acceptance by the author of absolutely all the emotions of parents and children, you realize that any manifestation is normal, an explanation is given and most importantly, a solution. Reading relieves guilt for mistakes. Time and time again, Naomi says that at any time, at any age of a child, realizing his mistakes, they can be corrected. Thereby improving the Today and getting a chance for a Happy Tomorrow.
The title of the book reflects the essence - raising a child we relive our childhood, old feelings, memories, destructive beliefs, questions of self-worth and significance. Yes, a book about raising children, but through the soul of a parent. Many topics are explained through analogies of the world of adults, our relationships with family, loved ones, friends. Thus, it is possible to understand the feelings and motives of the child "in their own skin."
Content is built on the principle of accumulation. Starting with the simple, let's move on to more serious and difficult topics. But by that time the reader already owns a number of tools, and at the same time gets a sense (and maybe experience) of overcoming more than one crisis. What motivates and inspires confidence. The only thing that may confuse the reader is examples from practice and life. As a specialist, it is clear to me that it is impossible to describe the whole path of the solution in a short history. Therefore, it needs to be edited, shortened, but so that the essence is clear. The reader may decide that the examples are too simple, the children are correct, responsive, thoughtful so much that they seem unreal. Realizing this, the author commented several times that it took a long time to succeed in a particular story and it took the patience of parents.
The style of presentation is very soft, even gentle. This is its uniqueness.
The relevance of the book is undeniable. In today's world, a young parent, and grandparents, are flooded with avalanches of information on how to raise a child "correctly." Instead of a resource, for many it is a "cacophony" that leads to fatigue and despair. In one book, the author was able to combine basic knowledge of emotional intelligence and age psychology, and give an understanding of crises with decision tools. But the main thing is that it gives lightness, inspiration and faith that everything will be fine).
Shabayeva Irina
