regulation which they, then internalize as their own. We are building their skills of emotional literacy and laying groundwork for emotional intelligence. No longer nature versus nurture, riveting research in neuroscience is now revealing that nature and nurture combine in an exquisite symmetry continually setting up and evolving the emotional map that guides our children throughout their lives. As mothers we can become alert and aware of facilitating sound emotional development by making conscientious and intelligent use of those tiny moments of connection as they crop up naturally throughout our day.
Emotional regulation lays the foundation for healthy relating in all areas of life. A calm, well regulated child can learn better, laugh harder and love with passion and presence. They are better equipped to find their place in this varied and complex world in which we find ourselves, today. Emotional well being is core to personal happiness, finding meaningful relationships, passion filled activity and spiritual purpose.
This book opens a door to the heart of all mothers reinforcing the truth that everyone knows, that there is no job more important than raising our children to be healthy, spiritually alive and contributing individuals. It is a book that understands that mothering is a spiritual path that calls on us to enlarge and expand not only as parents but as people; to stretch and grow soul. It describes how the experience of being a mother offers up constant opportunities to heal our own pasts because, through our children, we revisit the childhoods we thought we'd left behind, in all of their rich and gripping truth.
A good mother is a gift to society, she passes her love and special brand of emotional intelligence to no less than three generations. This book is a modern primer that will wrap the reader in warmth and reassurance, allow her to laugh at herself and inspire and guide her to make the most of her magical and meaningful experience of mothering. |
