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The Art of Conscious Parenting

The Natural Way to Give Birth, Bond with, and Raise Healthy Children

by Jeffrey L. Fine
Dalit Fine
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A new approach to creating, rediscovering, and renewing the intimate bonds between parents and children

• Explains the importance of bonding with your child in utero and the physical and mental preparation needed even before conception

• Shows how "green parenting"—breast-feeding, contact with nature, and low-tech creativity—can enhance your child's life

• The Art of Conscious Parenting won the 2010 Gold Nautilus Award for the best Parenting/Childcare book. The Nautilus Awards recognize books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living and positive social change, while at the same time stimulating the "imagination" and offer the reader "new possibilities" for a better life and a better world.

Our first days and months of life are critical in forming the attitudes we bring into adulthood and in structuring the very roots of our personality. Simple bonding techniques—long forgotten in our modern world but stemming from the age-old customs of indigenous peoples—are at the core of a new model of conscious parenting that can produce happy and well-adjusted children. These practices also help parents experience an increased joy and intimacy both with their child and with each other.

Based on obstetric and psychological evidence, Jeffrey and Dalit Fine reveal how bonding begins in utero and that the physical and mental preparation of both the father and mother, even before conception, sets the tone for the future well-being of the child. They show how sustained physical contact and simple ways of consciously interacting with your infant—eye contact with the newborn, baby-wearing instead of stroller use, and co-sleeping—have an observable positive effect. They also show that the "green parenting" practices of breast-feeding, contact with nature, and simple low-tech creative play not only provide a more hands-on and intimate approach to parenting but also are more economical and environmentally sustainable. From in-utero bonding through the challenges and joys of consciously interacting with your growing child, this book will help parents rediscover and apply the natural art of conscious parenting.

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  • Release date

    September 28, 2009

  • Formats

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      • ISBN: 9781594779763

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781594779763
      • File size: 552 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      October 19, 2009
      Husband and wife Jeffrey Fine and Dalit Fine, a psychologist and a counselor, respectively, present a holistic approach to birth and bonding in infancy, citing evidence of in-utero knowledge and sensitivities. Natural childbirth and attachment parenting are hardly new concepts, although they appear to be to the authors. Much of the text is graceful, but it makes questionable assertions at times, pointing for example, to "strong scientific evidence" that parental mental attitudes affect genetic markers prior to the act of fertilization. This should certainly not be a lead title in a natural childbirth collection, but it could supplement a large body of alternative/holistic literature.-Julianne J. Smith, Ypsilanti Dist. Lib., MI

      Copyright 2009 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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  • English

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