“A philosophy that nurtures the dreams of children!”

Three things occurred recently that have given me glad pause.

1st, my young friend Danny told me that he liked The Yes Child because it was a book about a child raising “philosophy” and not “child psychology.” My thought was, who in the hell reads about philosophy these days…or who reads books at all? But this was the whole point when Marcy and I set out to write The Yes Child…it’s a book written by real parents who field tested it in the real world. As we freely and readily admit, millions of people have raised and are raising great kids, but we deliberated over the conscious decisions we made and then wrote them down so they could be shared with anyone looking for this information/affirmation.

2nd, in a conversation with our great friend and creative adviser Karen Batchelor, Karen counseled us to “write in your own authentic voices when blogging.” This is exactly the approach we took when writing The Yes Child and I’ve no idea why we were struggling with it conceptually over our online writings…maybe just the awesomeness of this undertaking plus our relative newness to the online world and underdeveloped skills with all things internetery.

3rd, Carol Anderson, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry at UPMC and a highly respected leader in the child development field, said this in her review of the book; “Their philosophy of affirmation will serve as inspiration to parents committed to creating a family that nurtures the dreams of children!” How cool is that??? “…nurtures the dreams of children!” I’m blown away, and also less concerned about referring to TYC as a “philosophy.”

So thanks to Danny, Karen and Carol for your insights and inspirations…I’m floating in space!

Yeah! A “philosophy…that nurtures the dreams of children!” I’ll take that!!!