Book Review and Giveaway: Parenting for Social Change

A while back, I was contacted by Teresa Graham Brett to review her book Parenting for Social Change. Teresa is also the author of the website with the same name, which has long been on my link list (below). Being a big fan of her work, I was exited to receive the book.
As my motto is: "Change the world, one parent at a time", this could only be a good match for me and this blog.

The book's starting point is that we live in a society based on power and control relations, and that control and coercion are integrated in our culture's view of child rearing (the word speaks for itself). As mankind does not like to be controlled, this leads to power struggles and 'rebellion'.
If we were to relieve the parent-child relationship from this structural control, not only would we create a healthier relationship, but we'd also be nourishing a better future for the world at large.

The book read like a train, interlacing research with theory with real examples from Teresa's life with her children. It urges us to question our beliefs about children and our relationship with them and to dig deep in our past to unravel our reactions.
This is the first time I read a book about living with children that I wholeheartedly agree with.

This is truly a must read book. It is revealing, intelligent and it urges you to rethink control.
As a little side note: I love how she talks about 'the children who share my life' instead of her children. At page one, she pushes our nose onto the cultural belief of ownership we have about children.

I am very pleased that Teresa offered one of her books for a giveaway.

This Giveaway is open Worldwide and will be closed on July 10
My family will not be able to enter, nor will I
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Book Review and Giveaway: Parenting for Social Change