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Most parenting guides begin with the question "How can we get kids to do what they're told?" and then proceed to offer various techniques for controlling them. In this truly groundbreaking book, nationally respected educator Alfie Kohn begins instead by asking, "What do kids need -- and how can we meet those needs?" What follows from that question are ideas for working with children rather than doing things to them.

One basic need all children have, Kohn argues, is to be loved unconditionally, to know that they will be accepted even if they screw up or fall short. Yet conventional approaches to parenting such as punishments (including "time-outs"), rewards (including positive reinforcement), and other forms of control teach children that they are loved only when they please us or impress us. Kohn cites a body of powerful, and largely unknown, research detailing the damage caused by leading children to believe they must earn our approval. That's precisely the message children derive from common discipline techniques, even though it's not the message most parents intend to send.

More than just another book about discipline, though, Unconditional Parenting addresses the ways parents think about, feel about, and act with their children. It invites them to question their most basic assumptions about raising kids while offering a wealth of practical strategies for shifting from "doing to" to "working with" parenting -- including how to replace praise with the unconditional support that children need to grow into healthy, caring, responsible people. This is an eye-opening, paradigm-shattering book that will reconnect readers to their own best instincts and inspire them to become better parents.

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Dr. Witiak’s stories of the bond between the veterinarian, client, and pet take the reader into the exam room and on house calls to experience the laughable calamities, miscues, and surprises as well as the personal sorrows, revelations, and joys that treating animals can bring. This is a book of vignettes and personal commentary by a devoted veterinarian who is dedicated both to the science of his profession and to his personal belief in the importance of being loved and loving.

Dr. Witiak makes readers laugh when he checks a small dog’s breath and gets bitten on the nose and then makes them cry when he hugs an old man who has just lost his faithful canine friend. The stories give the reader a deeper understanding of how the unconditional love of our animals enables us to love each other better.

This is a joyous ride where readers bounce from one event to the other just like the veterinarian bounds from exam room to exam room — each with its own surprises. Readers discover just how organic caring is as Dr. Witiak works his magic, enjoying his tongue-in-cheek observations and self-deprecating humor along the way..
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On Unconditional Self-Acceptance, Cheri Huber offers us an effective process to release the blocked energies and conditional messages that keep us from attaining our personal and professional goals. In this full-length audio retreat, listeners will learn more about: How to be your own mentor - "The Five Steps of Acceptance": transforming difficult emotions into sources of strength – How to develop reflective listening skills for interacting with others – Ten guided imagery sessions, including a simple practice that can be used in any situation when overwhelmed by strong feelings, and more..
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Deepak Chopra, M.D., has emerged as one of the most powerful leaders in the revolutionary field of mind/body medicine His extraordinary bestseller Quantum Healing explored the mind's connection to seemingly miraculous cures for cancer and other serious illnesses. Now, in Unconditional Life, he undertakes an even greater challenge: to explain how consciousness can lead the way to total freedom and perfect health. Unconditional Life brings together disciplines ranging from modern physics and neuroscience to the ancient traditions of Indian wisdom to show how our perceptions create our reality for good or ill--and how the outside world can be shaped by altering the world within. In a book filled with hope and inspiration, Dr. Chopra offers compelling proof of the power of consciousness and a daring new vision of our own unlimited potential..
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Somewhere in the world there may be someone who "better" for you or for me. This not the point. The point is that I have choosen to give you my gift of love and you have chosen to love me. That is the only soil in which love can grown..
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?God's unconditional love.? Sounds nice, but is it enough? Is there more to God's love? Describing unconditional love as detached ?blanket acceptance? and ?benign affection, ? David Powlison challenges our common assumption about the nature of God's love. Although wonderfully accepting, divine love is also intrusive, intimate, personal, and active. Instead of simply loving us as we are, God loves us enough to change us. Powlison acknowledges four underlying truths of unconditional love, offers biblical improvements on the idea, and urges us to see God's love for what it really is-better than unconditional..
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Author of the bestselling Handbook to Higher Consciousness and founder of Ken Keyes College in Oregon, Keyes tells how to create happy, loving, and vital relationships and deal with the changing wants and needs of your loved ones. "This book is practical and specific. You can use it to begin enriching your relationships immediately."--John Bradshaw..
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Perhaps the most universally sought after expression and simultaneously least understood in our world today, Unconditional Love, is the first of book of its kind to unfold this awareness in a way that everyone will quickly comprehend. A true contemporary visionary, Harold W. Becker masterfully shares the deeper practical meaning behind this dynamic energy and illustrates how unconditional love operates on every level of life. Simply defined as an unlimited way of being, he clearly demonstrates how this insight weaves through all facets of our being including our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. Harold reveals how everything we need to know is already within us and that anyone can live a more balanced life of love, wisdom and personal power while being fully present and aware in each moment. This profound and inspirational writing is enlightening, uplifting and transformative while being timeless, straightforward and easily understandable. Like a roadmap to the inner self, this unique book moves beyond the traditional focus of self-help and captures the essence of a powerful, underlying movement to personal mastery. Harold helps the reader discover that we are really angels in human disguise and that by loving and accepting ourselves unconditionally we begin to celebrate and enjoy our journey. When we change our life, we literally change the world..
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