Parenting for a peaceful world / Robin Grille.

Alexandria, New South Wales : Longueville Media, 2005.

xix, 428 pages ; 23 cm

Copy 1. Donor: Family of Sheila Kitzinger.

1. From violence to harmony: child-rearing and social evolution -- How parenting changes the world -- 2. Childhood through ages -- From horror to hope -- The infanticidal mode -- The abandoning mode -- the intrusive mode -- The socialising mode -- The helping mode -- What the history of childhood tells us about ourselves -- 3. How child-rearing forged the destiny of nations -- Democracy starts at home -- Yugoslavian childhood: from war to democracy -- Traditional Russian childhood and the Stalinist Holocaust -- Nazis and their opponents: how did their childhoods differ? -- Religious extremism: a parenting style -- Child-rearing reforms: the seeds of democracy and human rights -- 4. To socialise or help? from authoritarian to authoritative parenting -- The carrot and the stick -- Authoritarian control method 1: corporal punishment -- Authoritarian control method 2: shaming -- Authoritarian control method 3: manipulation -- The authoritative parent: from control to contact -- 5. Emotions, personality and your child's growing brain -- The shaping of personality and human relations -- What is emotional intelligence? -- What children remember: and how this effects their development -- 6. The five stages of early childhood emotional development -- Five rites of passage in core emotional development -- First rite of passage: the right to exist -- Second rite of passage: the right to need -- Third rite of passage: the right to have support -- Fourth rite of passage: the right to freedom -- Fifth rite of passage: the right to love -- 7. Where to from here? -- Who parents the parents? -- Emotionally healthy children: a communal responsibility.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395 - 420) and index.