Beginning with the simplest breathing and sitting techniques, and based on three key skills - concentration, mindfulness and lovingkindness - world- renowned meditation teacher, Sharon Salzberg, teaches how to start and maintain a meditation practice that will transform lives by bringing greater resiliency, creativity, peace, clarity and balance.
A New Way of Developing Relationships With Children
A family therapist offers a new way of parenting through nurturing respect and dignity between parent and child Jesper Juul argues that today's families are at an exciting crossroad. The authoritarian parenting style based on obedience, conformity, and physical and emotional violence that governed traditional hierarchical families is being transformed. Here he talks about embracing a new set of values, based on the assumption that families must be built not on authoritarian force or democratic tyranny but on dignity and reciprocity between parent and child. He argues that children are competent to express their feelings from birth, and are eager to cooperate as well as assume responsibility for their personal and social behavior; and that parents must work on listening to and learning from children. With plenty of examples from everyday life, the book offers day-to-day skills on how to change negative behavior, redefining the way to look at a child's behavior and the relationship within families.
Valori e conoscenze in famiglia
Il bambino nasce "competente" e dispone già di nozioni, valori e criteri di valutazione che orientano concretamente la sua esperienza. Comunemente, invece, ci si comporta con lui come se fosse una specie di tabula rasa su cui i genitori devono imprimere le conoscenze necessarie per un regolare sviluppo umano e sociale. Questo modello nega la sua personalità e induce un deleterio stato di insicurezza. Juul invita, invece, a un'attenta osservazione del bambino, considerato non più come soggetto passivo ma, al contrario, come un "centro attivo di competenze": il passo necessario per un atteggiamento dialogico che possa orientarlo verso una costruzione armonica delle sue relazioni con la famiglia e il mondo.
The collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning author, ripe for rediscovery and featuring a foreword by Elizabeth Strout, showcase the remarkable talent of Hilma Wolitzer, who, at 90, remains at the top of her game. Known for elevating ordinary people and everyday occurrences, Wolitzer's short stories, many published in magazines like Esquire and The Saturday Evening Post during the 1960s and 1970s, resonate deeply today. The title story depicts a bystander attempting to comfort a woman overwhelmed by motherhood, while several linked tales explore the evolving relationship between the narrator and her husband through humorous vignettes. Wolitzer's work captures the domestic sphere and ordinary life with wit, candor, and grace. Her stories brilliantly reveal the tensions and contradictions of daily existence, offering insights into a world that was often overlooked at the time and remains relevant now. This collection invites a new generation of readers to embrace a beloved writer, providing a lens into the complexities of life that continues to resonate.