Growing Compassionate Children: A Grower's Guide
Synopsis of the book: The world needs more compassion and where else to start, than with raising compassionate children. This first place award winning parenting book includes twelve steps of "growing" compassionate children, a Grower's Guide. It follows the steps needed to grow a healthy plant, starting with preparing the soil, where a plant can be deeply rooted in solid healthy ground, like a child growing within a strong foundation made up of positive values and principles. There are stories and topics addressing the impacts of societal issues such as the use of social media, anger, mental health, and violence to focusing on acts of kindness and making this world a better place for all. The topics are diverse and include math and science concepts as they apply to plants and growing compassionate children. It talks about the importance of knowing, understanding, and preserving our roots, where this knowledge and increased understanding leads to a more compassionate child.
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Love all of Sonja's books and this one is a great book for parents and grandparents. The illustrations are amazing, loving and so much fun. The book has such wonderful advice and guidance for everyone. It is the perfect book for these difficult times so we can all help to develop and grow compassionate children and adults! Thanks for a great book and wonderful messages!
I love the metaphor of cultivating and growing children as you would cultivate and grow a garden. This is a beautifully written book.
Most parents and grandparents want their children to be caring, kind and compassionate. Traits that are not inbred at birth...they are learned and the best way to learn and spread them is by example. Sharing how she created awareness and practice with her children, Growing Compassionate Children, author Sonja Wendt uses the garden, growing, and weeding as metaphors throughout in revealing her Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Child. In the chaos and cruelty that many children are exposed to, adults will find takeaways to use for parenting support.
