Nurture the nature : understanding and supporting your child's unique core personality

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Acknowledgments

Introduction : rediscovering our children

Your child's nature

Nurture the nature of your child

Essential parenting

A special feature for moms and dads with newborns : ten tips for nurturing the nature of your baby

pt. 1. Protecting the nature of your child

1. Escaping the social trends parenting system

What is chronic stress in the American family?

The social trends parenting system

Nurturing your child's nature

Getting started

2. Understanding the core nature of your child

Using nature-based theory in your family

The myth of the blank slate child

Eight new sciences that can help you understand your child's core nature

Creating a profile of your child's core nature

Your essential parenting blueprint

"Who am I?" pt. 2. Nurturing the nature of your child

3. Nurturing the nature of your infant

Preview of essential developmental tasks

Information essential to nurturing the core nature of your infant

Natural differences between infant boys and girls

A revolution in parenting

Essential mothers, essential fathers

Parents-beyond-parents

The importance of the mother-infant bond

Burning question : can vaccinations harm my infant?

Parenting as a spiritual discipline

4. Nurturing the nature of your two- to three-year-old

Preview of essential developmental tasks

Information essential to nurturing the core nature of your toddler

Natural differences between toddler girls and boys

The importance of play, order, and discipline

Self-awareness of your own core nature

Burning question : how do I handle tantrums?

"She was a handful!"

5. Nurturing the nature of your four- to six-year-old

Preview of essential developmental tasks

Information essential to nurturing the core nature of your four- to six-year-old

Natural differences between boys and girls age four to six

Handling sibling rivalry

Helping your self-educating child ask, "who am I?"

Redefining food, shelter, and clothing

Burning question : how do I find the best school for my four- to six-year-old?

Moving forward with both peace and excitement

6. Nurturing the nature of your seven- to ten-year-old

Preview of essential developmental tasks

Information essential to nurturing the core nature of your seven- to ten-year-old

Natural differences between school-age girls and boys

Focusing on the art of relationship to protect your child's core nature

Protecting a child's core nature by creating symbiotic marriage or symbiotic divorce

Burning question: how much media is too much?

The courage of parents. pt. 3. Nurturing the nature of your adolescent

7. Nurturing the nature of your eleven- to fourteen-year-old

Preview of essential developmental tasks

Information essential to nurturing the core nature of your pubescent child

Natural differences between early adolescent boys and girls

Helping your pubescent child through early adolescent adaptations of core nature

Joining together to link fathers and men to early adolescents

Burning question : how do I protect my early adolescent's self-esteem?

Moving forward with pride

8. Nurturing the nature of your fifteen- to eighteen-year-old

Preview of essential developmental tasks

Information essential to nurturing the core nature of your middle adolescent

Natural differences between middle adolescent girls and boys

Adapting your family to accommodate your middle adolescent's individuation of core nature

Helping adolescents through crisis

Burning question : what is the best way to handle peer groups?

Becoming a woman, becoming a man

9. Nurturing the nature of your adolescent of nineteen and older

Preview of essential developmental tasks

Information essential to nurturing the core nature of your late adolescent

Natural differences between young men and young women

Identifying and helping young men and young women who lack a mission in life

Burning question : why are young people maturing so much later than we did?

The mission in life

Epilogue

Appendixes

A. Principles of nature-based families

B. Tracking your child's core personality through genetics : how to draw and understand a genogram

C. More help with food, shelter, and clothing : a discussion starter for parent groups

Notes and references

Bibliography

The Gurian Institute

About the author

Index