Children Learn What They Live

'If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn; if children live with acceptance, they learn to love'. Expanding on her universally loved poem, 'Children Learn What They Live', which has inspired countless families since its initial publication in 1954, Dorothy Law Nolte offers this simple but powerful guide to parenting. Addressing issues of security, self-worth, tolerance, honesty, fear, respect, fairness, patience and more, this book of rare common sense will help a new generation of parents find their own parenting wisdom and create lifelong values in their children. In creating this book - now viewed as a classic - the author has expand on the ideas in each of the 20 stanzas of the poem, using stories and events from everyday life.  

'Our children become the way we treat them ...There are no magic tricks in parenthood, but there are age-old wisdoms that almost always hold true. This book has them in abundance.' Steve Biddulph, author of Raising Boys and Manhood.

 
'This book can help you become the parent you have always wanted to be, and raise the kind of children you can always be proud of.' From the foreword by Jack Canfield, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul.