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Growing with Your Child for Life

Fan Deng, 2020

Explore how unconditional love, a child's sense of value, and a growth mindset can guide daily parenting and help repair strained relationships.

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6 parts, about 18 minutes to read.

Why read it

  • Likens a child to a living forest rather than a car assembled from parts, and starts with the parent's own reactions
  • Offers a framework of three supports: unconditional love, a sense of value and a mindset of lifelong growth, with everyday family examples
  • Explains how to begin again with a strained adolescent: stop nagging, name the feeling, ask questions, and expect change to take time

Who it is for

  • Parents who lean on rewards, bargains or threats
  • Parents of adolescents who treat them as an enemy
  • Adults who suspect their upbringing shapes how they parent

What the summary covers

  1. Grow alongside your child3 min
  2. The cost of threatened love3 min
  3. Love without bargaining3 min
  4. Belonging and value2 min
  5. A mindset of lifelong growth3 min
  6. Begin again when the relationship is strained4 min

About the author

  • Fan DengFounder of the Chinese reading app Fanshu, formerly at China Central Television

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