Greetings Everyone,
I have just got hold of the NYTimes Best Seller: THE SPIRITUAL CHILD - The New Science of Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving by Dr Lisa Miller.
Let me hasten to add what Dr Miller means by SPIRITUALITY:
"an inner sense of relationship to a higher power that is loving and guiding. The word we give to this higher power might be God, nature, spirit, the universe, the creator, or other words that represent a divine presence. But the important point is that spirituality encompasses our relationship and dialogue with this higher presence."
Dr Lisa Miller combines more than 10 years of cutting –edge scientific research with broad anecdotal evidence from her work as a clinic psych9ologist to illustrate just how essential spirituality is to a child’s physical and mental health. Spirituality here is defined as a personal relationship to a higher power such as nature, God, Spirit, or the Universe that is loving and Guiding.
The research shows that children who have a positive, active relationship to spirituality are:
• 40 percent less likely to use and abuse substances.
• 60% per cent less like to be depressed as teenagers.
• 80 per cent less likely to have dangerous or unprotected sex.
• More likely to have positive markers for thriving and high levels of academic success.
The Spiritual Child translates these findings into practical advice for parents, giving concrete ways to develop and encourage their children’s well being, as well as their own. The Spiritual Child is provocative, conversation- starting book k, and a pioneering new way to think about modern parenting.
Lisa Miller is a professor of Psychology and Education and director of the Clinical Psychology program at Columbia University, Teachers College. She is also the director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute and the coeditor in chief of the American Association journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice.
Miller assumes that good parents who are interested in the spiritual development of their children are capable of finding the best resources to guide and direct them in this important task of parenting. Her goal in this book is to provide the cutting edge data from the intersection between science and spirit. Beyond parents, the audience for this material is educators, health professionals, clergy, youth leaders, policy makers, and others.
Here are some useful links
Three Exercises you can perform
https://www.today.com/parents/how-raise-spiritual-child-3-exercises-dr-lisa-miller-t11736The Spiritual Child is highly recommended as a pre-eminently wise, practical and inspiring book for parents eager to lead their children on an adventuresome spiritual
https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews/view/27974/the-spiritual-child[url]A More Scientific Review of the book][url][url]A More Scientific Review of the book[/url][/url]
https://www.godlyplayfoundation.org/the-spiritual-child/
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