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Grow!: Personal Development for Parents
Trevor Silvester is a Harley Street therapist and author of Lovebirds who is revolutionising the way we understand human nature.
Grow! is a distillation of over 20 years of experience as a therapist applied to the task of raising happy children.
Your children develop primarily in response to your influence, says Trevor. Writing with wonderful wit and clarity, he shows why parents need to nurture their own personal growth so their children can grow to become who they want to be. He shows how parents can overcome their own limitations so they don't pass them onto their children, and how best to guide the young toward becoming strong, resilient and fulfilled adults.
Trevor identifies two ways of being in the world; we're either in a state of growth or a state of protection, and he argues that our interpretation of childhood events, and modern culture, often needlessly trigger us into a state of protection, leaving us anxious, fearful and unwilling to live life fully. Grow! describes strategies for keeping us, parents and children, in a state of growth.
Using eight parenting mantras to guide you, he shares valuable lessons gained from the latest scientific research, as well as many hours in the therapy room. Incorporating them into your parenting will improve your child's wellbeing enormously. Incorporating them into your life will improve everything.
To assist in making these new ideas habitual in the shortest space of time, Trevor has also created a series of downloads for you to listen to, using principles of unconscious influence that have been proven to work.
Grow! is a distillation of over 20 years of experience as a therapist applied to the task of raising happy children.
Your children develop primarily in response to your influence, says Trevor. Writing with wonderful wit and clarity, he shows why parents need to nurture their own personal growth so their children can grow to become who they want to be. He shows how parents can overcome their own limitations so they don't pass them onto their children, and how best to guide the young toward becoming strong, resilient and fulfilled adults.
Trevor identifies two ways of being in the world; we're either in a state of growth or a state of protection, and he argues that our interpretation of childhood events, and modern culture, often needlessly trigger us into a state of protection, leaving us anxious, fearful and unwilling to live life fully. Grow! describes strategies for keeping us, parents and children, in a state of growth.
Using eight parenting mantras to guide you, he shares valuable lessons gained from the latest scientific research, as well as many hours in the therapy room. Incorporating them into your parenting will improve your child's wellbeing enormously. Incorporating them into your life will improve everything.
To assist in making these new ideas habitual in the shortest space of time, Trevor has also created a series of downloads for you to listen to, using principles of unconscious influence that have been proven to work.
352 pages, ebook
Published March 23, 2017
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February 11, 2019
I loved this book. Trevor writes as he speaks and his warmth and enthusiasm for the topic shines through in his words. He explains the way our minds work and gives some very practical and down to earth tips, not only on how to raise resilient children, but on how to live the best lives for ourselves too. I am a student of Trevor’s, but I bought this book not really knowing what to expect. What I found was a book that made me smile and made me think that I needed to either buy it for friends and family or at least recommend that they buy it for themselves. It’s tempting to hang on tight to our children, but really as parents our job is to to start training them to be independent, confident people from the moment they enter our lives. Our relationship with them evolves continuously and if we can help them to live in growth, happy in themselves, we will have done a good job.
Super book! Thank you Trevor 10/10
Super book! Thank you Trevor 10/10
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