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From Magical Child
to Magical Teen
A Guide to
Adolescent
Development
Joseph Chilton Pearce
Just the author’s name
is enough to sell this
book! I remember being
handed an old copy of
Magical Child when I was pregnant. It had
very small print, had been passed around
many women before me and was quite tatty.
But it jumped out at me above and beyond
any other glossy parenting books lent to
me. Magical Child was my first experience
and hint that someone else out there knew
there was magic to be found in children and
a blueprint for their spiritual and biological
unfolding was inherent and that by nurturing
our intuition we could connect with our
children.
There are many books, magazines and
websites that honour this idea now, but
still, only 10 years ago in Australia, finding
any written material of this nature was
rare and magical in itself. Mainstream
dominated parenting information until very,
very recently. And now, the follow-on book,
Magical Teen gives more insight into this stage
of life of our children, our understanding of
them and our support of them. Written in
1985, this is a renaming of The Magical Child
Matures. Much of the content is the same,
some revised. Like the original, each word
in this book will challenge you, but if you
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The DEAL
for Happier,
Healthier,
Smarter Kids
Dr. Peter Dingle
Just having a book
with this title
makes me feel a
little depressed.
Do we really need
a book that tells us how to do this and
why it is important? Has our society
really come to this? Would byronchild
readers not be conscious enough on
these issues? And yet when I began to
read it I found it really enjoyable and
containing some good hints and ideas
that I have already applied. Sometimes, it
is good to read the obvious, and great to
be armed with some credible information,
considering Australian children and
obesity is rightly on the political agenda
as an issue now. As parents, we all get
busy and try our best, books like this are
great reminders of what is important.
DEAL stands for Diet, Environment,
Attitude and Lifestyle! Contact Peter
via his Murdoch University homepage at
http://wwwenvironment.murdoch.edu.
au/pd/index.html.
are open, there is much to gain spiritually,
from whichever viewpoint you stand on.
Like his other books, I find his writing hard
to get through sometimes. I can only explain
this as being a result of a brilliant mind. If
you realise, or want to realise that you are
raising a Magical Teenager, visit www.amazon.com
for your copy.
The Scientification
Of Love
Michel Odent
It is so wonderful in just
one page to revisit such
important historical
pioneers of Natural
Birth & Parenting. First
Chilton Pearce and
now Michel Odent,
famous for his work
in promoting homebirth, waterbirth and
other non-interventionist birth models in
France since the 1960’s. Who better then to
write a work on love than a man devoted
to the importance of how life begins and
the connection birth has with our peace
and survival as humans. As the title suggests,
Odent explains beautifully how nature has
given us hormones such as Prolactin and
Oxytocin to support natural birth, sex, love
and life… all proven by science. But this is
not a science book. Written beautifully and
easy to understand, the words flow with
spirit, tugging at your instincts along the
way. If you struggle to explain how birth
can be this beautiful, read this book to get
Great tips for helping kids to eat
healthy (from page 123 in D.E.A.L)
• don’t eat on the run or in a rush.
• take a couple of deep breaths before
and during eating. This turns on the
parasympathetic nervous system to
help digestion.
• don’t eat while watching television: the
calories are taken in but the kids may
not notice they have had the food.
• eat slowly, taste the food, savour it,
enjoy it.
• the slower they eat, the less they eat. It
allows the body to register they are full.
• fill up on nutritious foods first.
• finish with a piece of fruit.
some facts under your belt for your next
conversation. Science is heard far easier
than philosophy for some. This book was
published in 2001 but I have only just read
it. His latest book published only last month
titled The Caesarean asks: how did a magnificent
rescue operation become such a
common way of giving birth? Purchase and
review his works at www.fa-b.com
Spirit of Learning
Dawn Emelie Griggs
Dawn’s legacy of
learning lives on through
this book following her
sudden death last year.
If you have any instinct
that there are many
dimensions to learning,
many more than what
is offered by school, if
you want to explore the depths of your own
learning and therefore the potential of how
we can assist your children, Spirit of Learning
is a text which raises discussion about new
paradigms, shifting your inner awareness
and facilitating learning in unexpected ways.
This book is a thesis that explores ideas,
spirit and feelings around this subject and
thus reads as a philosophy book more than
offering any practical guidelines. If you want
to challenge your own thinking and are
struggling with decisions about schooling
for yourself or your children, this book
will assist on many levels. Available from
Jubilation Press, jubilation@nex.net.au
Reviews by Jannine Barron. If you have a book you would like to have reviewed, please post a copy and
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