
Magical Parent Magical Child: The Art of Joyful Parenting
Author: Michael MendizzaPublisher: North Atlantic BooksPaperback:ISBN 10: 1556434979ISBN 13: 978-1556434976This parenting guide presents seven principles for guiding and teaching children in today's turbulent learning environment. It replaces traditional adult-child formulas, rewards, and punishments with playful interaction, creative intelligence, and insight. With the goal of raising happy, healthy, intelligent young people, the book adopts proven strategies that allow top athletes and others to perform at high levels, called variously "zone," "flow," and "play." Using these concepts, parents and other caregivers will learn how to create and maintain "Optimum Learning Relationships" with children of any age. Review "An extraordinary blueprint...A must for all those seeking a more evolved way to parent or coach."—Michael Murphy, author of In the Zone, Golf in the Kingdom, and Future of the Body"This remarkable bo