The book offers solid parenting advice, emphasizing mindfulness and resisting stress responses, but feels overly lengthy and repetitive. While the core insights are valuable, the overall advice is common-sense and not groundbreaking.
Raising Good Humans provides practical guidance for parents on breaking the cycle of reactive parenting and raising kind, confident kids. The author's emphasis on mindfulness and recognizing stress responses is appreciated, though the book could have been more concise. The advice is generally solid and inoffensive, but much of it feels like common sense. The book's focus on mindfulness is somewhat overstated, and the author's disciplinary views are not universally agreed upon. Overall, it's a decent read but not necessarily a must-read for everyone.
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This 2019 title feels as though it probably could have been stripped of repetitive examples and published at magazine-article length, if not for the fact that that obviously wouldn’t make as much money.
Mindfulness overall still strikes me as a bit of a scam, yet in general I’d say this is a solid parenting guide that doesn’t overemphasize that practice out of any reasonable proportion.
I’ll round my rating up to three-out-of-five stars due to sheer inoffensiveness, but given how common-sense most of this advice appears, I don’t know that I’d necessarily recommend the text to anyone.