Dreamguider: Open the Door to Your Child's Dreams - Softcover

Denyse Beaudet PhD

9781571745934: Dreamguider: Open the Door to Your Child's Dreams

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1571745939 ISBN 13: 9781571745934

Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing, 2008

Denyse Beaudet, a Jungian developmental psychologist for more than 25 years, has helped countless parents understand their children's dreaming lives. By engaging parents in their children's dreamworld, Dreamguider:
* Increases children's comfort with nighttime and their dreams

* Helps parents gain insight into their children's thoughts, feelings, and imaginations

* Encourages creativity in children

* Strengthens communication between children and their parents

Complete with real-life experiences, examples, and anecdotes, Dreamguider is an invaluable, concrete dream handbook that helps parents:
* Help their children to become comfortable talking about their dreams

* Supply direction to their children on the daily practice of keeping a developmentally appropriate dream journal

* Match children's dream themes to accepted stages in child development

* Help children to accept and work gracefully with nightmares by explaining how to come to terms with "dream monsters"

* Understand and gain insight into their children's individual personalities

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About the Author:

Denyse Beaudet, PhD, has been a teacher and seminar leader in the field of developmental psychology for more than twenty-five years. She lives in San Diego, California.

Review:

If I were back in the fourth grade, I might just decide to spend my pocket money buying my parents a copy of Denyse Beaudet's book, because it says so many cool things kids need adults to know about dreams. One is that children know more about dreaming than most adults, so grown-ups should make a space to listen up. They should help kids to record their dreams in journals that will be a gift to the family decades later. If a kid is scared by something in the night, parents need to be primed to help, by offering immediate comfort, by checking whether the dream offers a clue to a problem that needs to be addressed, and sometimes by assisting the child to 'continue' the dream until a terror is confronted and resolved. The section on helping kids to select a dream talisman or night guardian is alone worth the price of the book, and I know it works. Clear, practical, and warm-hearted, alive with the voices of dreaming children, Dreamguider offers essential education for parents everywhere. --Robert Moss, author of Conscious Dreaming and The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination

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