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Children Are from Heaven

By: John Gray
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After years of experience leading communication workshops and honing his own parenting skills, John Gray has created a brilliantly original and effective system that he calls positive parenting, for children of all ages; from birth through the teenage years. Completing the notion that "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus", he adds "Children are from Heaven".

Children Are From Heaven covers different skills of parenting to help improve communication, increase cooperation, and motivate your children. Central to this new approach are the five positive messages your children need to learn again and again.

  • It's okay to be different.
  • It's okay to make mistakes.
  • It's okay to express negative emotions.
  • It's okay to want more.
  • It's okay to say no, but remember Mom and Dad are the bosses.

    When these messages are put into practice, and John Gray shows you how, your children will develop the necessary skills for successful living: forgiveness of others and themselves, sharing, delayed gratification, self-esteem, patience, persistence, respect for others and themselves, cooperation, compassion, confidence, and the ability to be happy.

    By applying the five messages and different skills of positive parenting, your children will receive what they need to become more cooperative, confident, and compassionate children.

    • ©1999 John Gray (P)1999 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.     Parenting & Families Relationships

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    "The teaching genius of John Gray comes through....One of the best audio guides available on staying centered and effective as a parent." (AudioFile)
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    I'm a new mom and learned so much from this book. I thought that punishing was the only way to get kids to listen. John Gray gives great tips on how to parent in a loving way that involves negotiation and respect so that your kids won't resent you when they are teens.

    Excellent read filled with great tips!!!

    How to Parent without Punishment

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    I love this book. I have it on audio and it's well read by the author. He makes parenting strategies easy to listen to and easy to implement. I love his books on Mars and Venus and how men and women communicate differently. The same for children. Different types of children communicate differently and slightly different strategies work with different types of children. I highly recommend this book.

    Great parenting book

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    I really loved the original books about men and women. This one starts very promising, but after a while, whit out actual argument why it should be how the author suggests, I started questioning some parts and approaches because I feel like I heard differently (incentives are like punishments after all, etc.) and I ask myself if the material isn’t again aged. I guess the same is true for the original book, I just found a lot of reinforcement in my own experiences and relationships with women (I’m a man). With kids I have no experience and it feels like gambling a bit with them. Most of it seems right to me, but who known and on which basis? Some studies could help me to get on board. Moreover the material is a bit mixed up, with no clear structure like it seems in the beginning with 5 principles/messages I felt.

    Bah, mixed feelings

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    Trying to break the habits my parents did on me over the years. Good information

    I wish I read this 25 years ago

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    What did you love best about Children Are from Heaven?

    IT HAD PARADIGM SHIFT IN MY THINKING ABOUT CHILDREN

    What was one of the most memorable moments of Children Are from Heaven?

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    Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

    WHY I DID NOT GET THIS BOOK 4 YEARS BACK

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    THIS MUST BE MADE COMPULSORY FOR EVERY PARENT

    PARENTS SHOULD NOT DELAY IN HEARING THIS BOOK

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    I wish I had read this book earlier.
    But is never too late to start.

    Great system for parenting

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    It's a great concept or theory but it operates from principle that children will only do what the parent teaches them and glosses over the rest. I want to see positive reinforcement applied when your child decides to go for a joy ride in your neighbor's car and drives it into a lake. Feels like this is the book that invented catch and release policies and the people raised on these principles are now putting it into law... catch and release is used to maintain and increase fish populations in a body of water. just saying..

    Too radical needs balance or proof

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    I would not recommend this type of book to any parent. Positive reinforcement is NOT positive Discipline.

    Awful

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