A Simple Guide to Socratic Parenting

by Laurie Gray

Learn how your children can benefit from the powerful, compassionate, and effective techniques of Socratic parenting in this guide that draws from ancient wisdom to create a new paradigm for modern parents.

 

Showing how to apply the Socratic method to parenting, this book focuses on developing a personal parenting philosophy and sharing that philosophy with your child through dialogues, asking open-ended questions, and modeling the behavior you want to see in your child. While traditional punishment and reward techniques may condition desired behaviors, parents who develop their own self-discipline and critical-thinking skills will naturally encourage their children to become self-disciplined, independent thinkers.

Genres: Parenting

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

An experienced trial attorney and child advocate, Laurie Gray is the founder of Socratic Parenting (www.SocraticParenting.com), co-creator of Token of Change™, and a consultant for Sophie’s Café (www.SophiesCafe.org). Laurie earned her B.A. from Goshen College and her J.D. from Indiana University Maurer School of Law. She also works as an adjunct professor of criminal sciences for Indiana Tech and a bilingual child forensic interviewer at the Dr. Bill Lewis Center for Children in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She has served on the faculty of the National Symposium on Child Abuse in Huntsville, Alabama, every spring since 2009.

Laurie is the author of three young adult novels: Summer Sanctuary (Luminis Books/ 2010), Maybe I Will (Luminis Books / 2013) and Just Myrto (Luminis Books / 2014). Her debut novel received a Moonbeam Gold Medal and was named a 2011 Indiana Best Book Finalist.

Reviews

[Jennifer Temple · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have read a great many parenting books. I was very disappointed in A Simple Guide to Socratic Parenting. This book lacked enough examples of situations and interactions. A simple guide it is. I found the P.E.T. book did a much better job of explaining this manner of parenting by giving examples of interactions both good and bad. I raised 2 sons by a Socratic method of parenting and I must say this book would not have provided the rich depth that would allow a parent to make it their own. The reading was cold and dry and a bit academic. There are a few other books I would recommend before I would recommend this one! It is a quick read and a reasonable outline for a mere 90 pages, it could have been so much more.

[Beth Dock-Henschen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent help and author is brilliant in so many ways.