A Child is Not a Business Card. The Kind of Children I Dream of Raising and the Parent I Want to Be

A wise, sincere, and kind support book from the mother of five children and a parenting consultant, in which she shares her experience and teaches us to understand the language of children’s hearts. Previously published under the title "The Meaning... of My Life." Children do not come into the world to make us happy, to be a source of pride, or to please our vanity. Our goal is to raise them, despite the chaos they bring into our lives, and to be good enough parents for them. Not perfect, but those who sometimes get upset but can also have fun from the heart, listen to their children and notice their needs, while not forgetting their own needs. Einat Natan, the mother of five children and a practicing parenting consultant in her own clinic, knows from experience how "the hardest job in the world is to be a parent" that we must face every day. In her book, there are 50+ parenting topics: how to listen to children and how to talk to them, how to care for them without limiting them, how to respond to pain, anger, and tears. The author addresses the issues that trouble all parents: tantrums, co-sleeping, the stork visit, first grade and school, difficult teenagers, sexual education, bullying, and more, but writes about them in a calming manner. The book will help parents show more patience, maintain calmness in an era of inflated expectations, and also appreciate and accept each child as an individual. No special skills are required for this. It is important to understand children and try to see the world through their eyes. This book is not only an international bestseller and a guide to parenting but also a hand of support for parents on the difficult journey we go through every day with a child. The book’s features Real stories from the life of a mother of five children. The book is filled with warmth and love for children and parents. Problems familiar to every parent. Not a didactic tone, but a conversation at eye level. An international bestseller, Amazon's editor's choice. Who this book is for For moms and dads who want to understand their children and see the world through their eyes. For those who plan to become parents and want to explore the parenting journey. For every parent who wants to raise a happy person. From the author The story of how we become parents, what kind of parents we are now, and what kind of parents we will be years later is being rewritten every day and every second. This story tells how we fall in love and love, how we communicate and express our "self," about fear and difficulties, about old pain that we have already forgotten, and about new pain that arises on our path. About courage and humility, about imperfection, about harmony and its absence. But most importantly, in this story, there will always be several narrators and different points of view. Thousands of meetings with parents, personal experience, and accumulated professional knowledge have allowed me to tell the complex story of raising children as I see it. The lessons my children teach me, I record in the story of my life. I will share these lessons with you in my book, as I am convinced that this is how we need to talk about parenting today.