Children are from Heaven: Positive Parenting Skills for Raising Cooperative, Confident, and Compassionate Children

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Macmillan, 1999 - Family & Relationships - 356 pages
Guide to child-raising, first published in the USA. Provides advice and information on bringing up children to be cooperative, confident and compassionate. Discusses topics such as improving communication, raising self-esteem, increasing motivation, accepting dfferences, making mistakes, expressing negative emotions and maintaining control. The author's other publications include 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus'.

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Children Are from Heaven
1
What Makes the Five Messages Work
21
New Skills to Create Cooperation
38
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Author of the best selling Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (1992) and its sequels, John Gray is a frequent guest on popular talk and news programs on both radio and television and teaches seminars on relationships and communication. He has written over fifteen books including Why Mars and Venus Collide. His books have been translated into 45 languages. He lived as a monk for nine years, receiving his bachelors and masters degrees in Creative Intelligence from Maharishi European Research University. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia Pacific University and is a Certified Family Therapist. He is also a consulting editor of The Family Journal. In 2001, he received the Smart Marriages Impact Award.

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