Turning No to on

The book is about parenting with mindfulness. The goal is to assist the parent in developing an attitude of mindfulness in parenting to circumvent the trap of power struggling in daily living and develop an internalized structure of strength and flexibility. This style of thinking and being in parenting will help you shift your child's NO to ON, shifting the power struggle into a sense of being Turned ON to life and living mindfully. This incorporates playfulness, flexibility, and a sense of structure in how things work and results in happy, powerful, resilient, strong, collaborative, unique, self confident beings. The information is presented in an accessible, entertaining, and thought-provoking personal style. Woven throughout the book are personal stories, exercises, techniques, and aha experiences that pull you in and result in your own personal paradigm shifts. This serves to further solidify the positive results described in the exercises and techniques defined in the book. It is the proposal of the author that the application of mindfulness to parenting is an essential focus of parenting to successfully work through the psycho-social developmental stages of childhood. It is a model that provides a middle way, and an answer to the ongoing debate between authoritarian versus laissez-faire parenting. It provides resolutions to development stages that increase an internal sense of motivation, resilience, positive self-esteem, internal locus of control, self-direction, and ingenuity. The other two polar styles have proven to have deficiencies in these areas of concern either resulting in rigidity or ambivalence. The author has developed powerful, easy to learn models and tools to bring mindfulness, strength, resilience building, attachment/connection, and compassion to the art of parenting. The strategies in this book allow you to develop the skills and instinctive ability to turn NO to ON in how your child interacts within his environment so that he can enhance his positive attributes and extinguish his less useful aspects. The tools in this book will help you to keep practicing the mindful art of parenting, resulting in increased self-awareness and self confidence both for yourself and your child as you develop your internal understanding your child's dynamic needs and wants throughout the developmental stages of childhood and adolescence. Having a model and tools to develop and maintain a strong emotional connection and good communication pathway with your child is paramount for working through the major developmental tasks of child and young adulthood.