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The Art of Less: How Doing Less Helps Children Grow

The Art of Less: How Doing Less Helps Children Grow

Paperback

General Parenting

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ISBN13: 9798189707513
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

We are not raising fragile children because we love them too much. We are making them fragile because we intervene too much.

We rush to fill every moment of boredom, soothe frustration and solve a problem before it becomes an experience. We anticipate, simplify and give in. We do it out of love, out of tiredness, to keep the day going. But when help always arrives before a child has had the chance to try, they risk never discovering what they can do for themselves.

The Art of Less is a book for parents and carers that invites them to distinguish presence from taking over, protection from dependence, support from intrusion.

It does not advocate harshness, detachment or perfect formulas. It shows how to leave children room: to wait, be bored, make mistakes, hear the word no, face a manageable difficulty and find a solution of their own.

Through short chapters, everyday scenes and practical A Small Experiment... prompts, Lara Ferrario guides parents to recognise the automatic gestures through which they take up too much space and turn them into concrete acts of trust.

This book is for anyone who wants children to become more independent and capable, without becoming a cold or distant parent. For anyone who wants to be truly present, but not always in their place.

A child does not grow strong because of everything we spare them from.

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