Publisher's Synopsis
No one goes into parenthood anticipating the ways they will psychologically damage their children. My parents fed me and sheltered me. I learned how to take care of myself physically and to manage the tasks of adulthood. I was responsible and productive. Yet, I was far from happy and fulfilled. I did not come out of childhood feeling good about myself. We take classes for everything from learning to draw to playing an instrument to getting a medical degree or becoming an accountant to learning karate and gymnastics or learning to cook, yet we get little to no education on our psychological and emotional health. Emotionally healthy people know how to express themselves in life-giving ways, and are rarely in abusive relationships or having affairs. They aren't lying, cheating, or abusing drugs or people. They are generally happy people. Becoming an emotionally healthy person is an ongoing journey and needs at least as much, if not more, attention as we give to our physical health. Reproduction often gets less thought and planning than a vacation. Raising children to be healthy, happy, productive, and loving adults becomes on-the-job-training at its worst, since mistakes can be life altering. So how do we help our children become the happy, healthy, productive, and loving adults most parents want them to be? Over here in this book, we'll be discussing all the lessons learned from many others who suffered the same consequences and maybe, from these mistakes, we can help our children escape that.
