Releasing Your Child's Potential: Empower Your Child to Set and Reach Their Own Goals

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
1 Exploring potential......Page 13
Developing potential or creating limitations......Page 14
Adopting realistic expectations......Page 16
Understanding our needs......Page 19
Allowing risks......Page 22
Summary......Page 23
Recognising subjectivity......Page 24
Identifying emotional variations......Page 25
Experiencing fear positively......Page 27
Experiencing joy......Page 30
Realising potential from the negative......Page 31
Communicating successfully......Page 32
Developing empathy......Page 33
Defining success......Page 37
Exploring the importance of emotional competence......Page 40
Learning together......Page 43
Summary......Page 45
3 Exploring emotional choices......Page 46
Making choices......Page 47
Breaking the power of shame and guilt......Page 49
Seeing the real story......Page 53
Choosing ways of interpreting experience......Page 56
Recognising the potential to change......Page 59
Summary......Page 61
Evolving parenting skills......Page 62
Learning from the past......Page 63
Exploring power relationships in parenting......Page 67
Learning by example......Page 69
Recognising hidden agendas in parenting......Page 72
Summary......Page 76
Assessing the importance of making mistakes......Page 78
Learning lessons in six dimensions......Page 79
Protecting or inhibiting......Page 82
Welcoming the lessons......Page 92
Summary......Page 93
Assessing the purpose of discipline......Page 94
Assessing smacking......Page 98
Avoiding shame and guilt......Page 99
Giving and receiving respect......Page 102
Learning styles for parents......Page 103
Positive discipline......Page 105
Recognising causes of anger......Page 106
Summary......Page 110
Comparing boundaries and barriers......Page 111
Developing healthy boundaries......Page 113
Developing boundaries in existing situations......Page 116
Learning to say ‘no’......Page 117
Boundaries and privacy......Page 118
Summary......Page 119
Defining love......Page 121
Trust and honesty......Page 123
Letting go and allowing your child to learn......Page 130
Summary......Page 135
Developing imagination......Page 137
Using empathy......Page 139
Accessing the unconscious mind......Page 141
Teaching throughout history......Page 143
Summary......Page 145
The stories......Page 147
10 The Little Holly Tree......Page 149
Interpreting the story of The Little Holly Tree......Page 153
11 The Fox and the Blue Grapes......Page 161
Interpreting the story of The Fox and the Blue Grapes......Page 164
12 Violet......Page 170
Interpreting the story of Violet......Page 181
Further reading......Page 187
Useful contacts......Page 189
L......Page 191
W......Page 192