BUDDHA HEART PARENTING: Enrich Your Family with Buddhist Wisdom and Compassion, by Dr. C.L. Claridge

BUDDHA HEART PARENTING: Enrich Your Family with Buddhist Wisdom and Compassion

by Dr. C.L. Claridge

Buddha Heart Parenting offers the reader deep insights into how to integrate Buddhist philosophy with contemporary psychology to arrive at a method of parenting that is both effective and enables family members to realise their true Buddha nature. It provides a frank look at the norms and status of parenting today, and suggests ways to develop more authentic communication using Buddhist principles.

Our deep love and concern for our children provide us with an incredible incentive to study and apply the Buddhist teachings to all our interactions with them. The emphasis is on skills and strategies that combine compassion and wisdom to make all our interactions with our children supportive and joyous.

When we parent using Buddhist principles and concepts we undergo an internal transformation. Buddhism is about the study of the mind, and when we put the fruits of this study into practice in our daily life with our children wonderful things happen. Not only do we experience an internal transformation and move closer to realising our true Buddha nature, our children also move closer to realising their true Buddha nature.

This book represents one of the finest guides for bringing Buddhism into our life at a practical level.

"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden."--Buddha

Dr. CL Claridge has a degree in child psychology and a PhD in empowerment processes, but her special qualities are her sensitivity, compassion, commitment and sense of humour. As a mother she has found parenting to be one of the most rewarding roles she has undertaken. CL is a practicing Buddhist and has, for more than 25 years, educated and counselled parents in effective parenting skills and strategies based on Buddhist principles and philosophy.