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Raising Good Humans

A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

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Raising Good Humans

Written by: Hunter Clarke-Fields MSAE, Carla Naumburg PhD
Narrated by: Jennifer Gilmour
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Break the cycle of reactive parenting and raise kind, confident kids with this essential guide—with nearly 1 million copies sold!

“A wise and fresh approach to mindful parenting.”
—Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance

A kinder, more compassionate world starts with kind and compassionate kids. In Raising Good Humans, you'll discover practical mindful parenting strategies to break free from reactive parenting habits, manage parenting stress, and raise kind, cooperative, and confident children.

Whether you're running late for school, trying to get your child to eat their vegetables, or dealing with an epic meltdown in the grocery store, parenting can push even the most patient person to their limit. When stress takes over, many parents react on autopilot—often by yelling, criticizing, or losing their cool. But you can learn to respond differently.

Using evidence-based mindfulness and emotional regulation skills, you'll learn how to calm your own stress response when difficult emotions arise so you can respond to your children with greater patience, compassion, and intention.

In this practical guide to mindful parenting, you'll learn how to:

  • Manage parenting stress and big emotions without automatically yelling or reacting
  • Break reactive parenting habits and replace them with more thoughtful responses
  • Use mindfulness to stay calm and present during challenging parenting moments
  • Communicate more respectfully and strengthen your connection with your child
  • Practice reflective listening and effective conflict resolution
  • Recognize your own triggers and unhelpful parenting patterns
  • Break intergenerational cycles and change habits passed down from your own parents
  • Build a more peaceful, cooperative parent-child relationship

The goal isn't to become a perfect parent. It's to become a more mindful, emotionally regulated parent who can respond instead of react, even when your child is pushing every button you have.

When children experience a parent responding with kindness and patience, they learn those skills too. By changing your own automatic reactions, you can help your children develop emotional awareness, compassion, and resilience while creating healthier patterns that can continue for generations.

Raising Good Humans is an essential guide for parents who want to reduce yelling, manage parenting stress, improve their relationships with their children, and create a calmer, more connected family.

©2019 Hunter Clarke-Fields and Carla Naumburg (P)2019 New Harbinger Publications
Conflict Management Meditation Parenting & Families Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships School-Age Children Spirituality Habits Mindfulness Parenting Toddlers French Parenting
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What the critics say

“To raise the children we hope to raise, we have to learn to become the person we hoped to be…. This wonderful book will help you handle the ride.” (KJ Dell’Antonia, author of How to Be a Happier Parent)

“Hunter Clarke-Fields shares her wisdom and personal experience to help parents create peaceful families.” (Joanna Faber and Julie King, coauthors of How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen)

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Great resource for parents to build life long relationships and raise emotionally competent children ❤️ love the little practices for the week at the end of each chapter.

Loved it!

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I didn’t enjoy the rhythm of the book and voice in the author. For the topic the voice felt disconnected to the topic.

It was okay

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This book really dives into many topics about our parenting journey! Currently have been reading many books about these topics reactive parenting vs conscious parenting. It truly explains so well how parents can work on themselves to create a more self aware, conscious, empathetic parenting mindset while taking care of their own trigger and learn how to be conscious of these triggers and learn to work beyond the limitations of your past so we as parents do not pass on these hurts to future generations.
Beautiful, empathetic, and amazing mindset work!

So incredibly relatable!

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As a young parent of 2 I find this book very helpful.

I think it needs to be read/listened more than once tho. One time might not be enough, Too many things and advices to consider

Great guide

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This author demystifies parenting & the nature of children. The content of its pages hasn't just offered solutions to what I see as challenges with parenting & the ways in which I could be doing things better - it has been very inspiring & resparked joy and wonder in my journey of this sacred assignment of successfully raising children up to be successful adults.

I wish all parents had access to this book and its practical, accessible wisdom...

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