What Our Children Teach Us : Lessons in Joy, Love and Awareness - Softcover

Ferrucci, Piero

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743221087 ISBN 13: 9780743221085

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2002

Synopsis

A thoughtful, deeply honest look at the transforming experience of parenthood and how our children can lead us to a more profound understnading of ourselves. 'Live with children long enough and beauty, love, innocence, play, pain, and death, everything appears in a new light...' Children: they have the ability to turn our lives upside down, to disrupt our plans and our sleep, to try our patience, and to elicit our most ferocious love. But children also have the power to teach us the greatest lessons we'll ever learn. Now Piero Ferrucci, a noted psychologist, author, and the father of two young sons, reveals how the journey of parenthood can be a learning path, a succession of experiences that can enrich and transform us like no religious retreat or course of psychotherapy ever could. Not obsessed with the usual equation of what we must teach our children, Ferrucci rather looks into the mirror our children hold up to adult behaviour and tries to integrate the spontaneity, originality and ethical awareness that he finds in his sons into his own attitudes and conduct. WHAT OUR CHILDREN TEACH US is a charming book, full of delightful wit as well as seriousness of purpose. Through lively, moving and charmingly candid anecdotes that will strike a chord with every parent, Piero Ferrucci shows us the myriad ways in which our children can help us rediscover wonder, cultivate joy and patience, and open ourselves to a richer and more vital world.

About this title

About the Author

Piero Ferrucci is a distinguished psychologist and author. He lives in Florence with his wife and two sons. WHAT OUR CHILDREN TEACH US is his first general book and it has been translated into 21 languages.

Review

Through lively, moving and charmingly candid anecdotes that will strike a chord with every parent, Piero Ferrucci shows us the many ways in which children hold up a mirror to adult behaviour. He shows how we can integrate the spontaneity, originality and ethical awareness found in children into our own attitudes and conduct.

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743221087
• ISBN 13: 9780743221085
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208