# Buy Mindful Parenting Books for Balancing Careers & Children Now

Excerpts from Dr. Charlotte's book, *The Mindful Parent: Strategies from Peaceful Cultures to Raise Compassionate, Competent Kids*.

*Mindful Parenting* is Dr. Charlotte's term for caregiving that promotes a close, mutually respectful relationship between parents and children. Mindful Parents are REAL: Responsive, Engaged, Aware, and Limit-setting with toddlers beginning at about 18 months old.

When using Mindful Parenting, children are treated with:

- A high degree of compassion and affection
- Clear limit setting
- Expectations of self-control and compliance

Parents promote empathy by responding to children's feelings, offering reasonable choices, and exercising firm parental limit-setting without inflicting pain or suffering.

Mindful Parenting offers:

- [Global Practices that Promote Attachment](https://www.growingkindkids.com/peaceful-parenting/universal-practices-that-promote-attachment.md)
- [Factors that Inhibit Attachment](https://www.growingkindkids.com/peaceful-parenting/factors-that-inhibit-attachment.md)
- [Validation of Feelings](https://www.growingkindkids.com/peaceful-parenting/validation-of-feelings.md)
- [Punishment vs. Discipline](https://www.growingkindkids.com/peaceful-parenting/punishment-vs-discipline.md)
- [Time-Ins rather than Time-Outs](https://www.growingkindkids.com/peaceful-parenting/time-ins-rather-than-time-outs.md)