Mindful Parent Happy Child: A Guide To Raising Joyful and Resilient Children

You are eager to exit your front door and rush to an important business meeting, but at breakfast, your precious child spills milk all over the hot pancakes you just made, turning them into mush. Your knee-jerk reaction is an uncontrolled yell and an obvious expression of frustration and disappointment. Most of the immediate reactions we have, with our kids or otherwise, are a result of the early 'hard-wiring' in our brain we developed mostly in our childhood, from the adults around us. How do we improve our parenting and instil a deep parent - child connection if the hard-wiring in our brain makes us behave in ways we wish we could take back? We can choose new wiring by practising principles and model presented in "Mindful Parent Happy Child". When parents practice these methods, they are on a path of not only growing joyful and resilient children but they are directly participating in growing a more compassionate world.

Dr. Pilar Placone has worked over eighteen years as a Licensed Family Therapist in California. She has successfully treated individuals and families, adults and adolescents in the throes of alcohol and drug addiction, eating disorders, all forms of abuse, bipolar disorder, and major depression. In 2001 she received a doctorate in Integral Psychology where she studied Eastern contemplative practices and their healing properties in psychotherapeutic treatment. Her dissertation research resulted in the development of what she titled the Mindful Parenting Program. More recently, the foremost influence in her research is the brilliant and pioneering work of Dr. Dan Siegel, whose Interpersonal Neurobiology approach has increased the effectiveness and scientific integrity of her Mindful Parent Happy Child program.