Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

4.7 | 5,271 ratings

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Last update: 01-11-2025

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“A wise and fresh approach to mindful parenting.” (Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance)

A kinder, more compassionate world starts with kind and compassionate kids. In Raising Good Humans, you’ll find powerful and practical strategies to break free from “reactive parenting” habits and raise kind, cooperative, and confident kids.

Whether you’re running late for school, trying to get your child to eat their vegetables, or dealing with an epic meltdown in the checkout line at a grocery store - being a parent is hard work! And, as parents, many of us react in times of stress without thinking - often by yelling. But what if, instead of always reacting on autopilot, you could respond thoughtfully in those moments, keep your cool, and get from A to B on time and in one piece?

With this book, you’ll find powerful mindfulness skills for calming your own stress response when difficult emotions arise. You’ll also discover strategies for cultivating respectful communication, effective conflict resolution, and reflective listening. In the process, you’ll learn to examine your own unhelpful patterns and ingrained reactions that reflect the generational habits shaped by your parents, so you can break the cycle and respond to your children in more skillful ways.

When children experience a parent reacting with kindness and patience, they learn to act with kindness as well - thereby altering generational patterns for a kinder, more compassionate future. With this essential guide, you’ll see how changing your own “autopilot reactions” can create a lasting positive impact, not just for your kids, but for generations to come.

An essential, must-listen for all parents - now more than ever.

“To raise the children we hope to raise, we have to learn to become the person we hoped to be…. This wonderful book will help you handle the ride.” (KJ Dell’Antonia, author of How to Be a Happier Parent)

“Hunter Clarke-Fields shares her wisdom and personal experience to help parents create peaceful families.” (Joanna Faber and Julie King, coauthors of How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen)

Carl McCargo

Fantastic Strategies

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2024

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and enjoyed doing the work and testing the suggested strategies. Being a new parent, I was desperately searching for a new way to parent my hyper-active 5 year-old son. I was tired of all the yelling and needed a better was to communicate with him effectively. And the biggest thing this book helped me realize is that, ITS OK. It's ok if things don't get done the parents way and taking a different path to achieve the goal is ok as well. Also, to simply calm down in heated moments, which it suggests practicing meditation (I've enjoyed this, it really works).
I will say you do have to put in the work and it is a huge unlearning process. Unlearning how I was raised and brought up. And he talks about that in the book ,but I will continue to use these strategies because I feel more calm and the strategies are effective.

Sadie

Learning a lot of valuable information!

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2024

I'm really enjoying reading this book. I'm learning a ton of valuable information, but it's not just like reading a textbook, it's written in such a way that I'm invested in what I'm reading and I WANT to read more.

Raven story

Very unsightful

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2024

This book is very insightful, especially coming from a not so stable home as a first time Mom. I always worried about causing any emotional harm. Accidentally to my child which is why I got the book. It goes very in depth on. How to handle situations?And it just overall a great book for any parent to read especially a first time parent. One hundred percent recommend for everyone who has children or is planning on having children.

Nicole S.

Overall good

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2023

Overall a good book with good advice, but there is a solid chunk that is on mindfulness practice and the book basically says that you HAVE to be able to meditate to move forward with the rest of the book which made it feel very unapproachable for me due to my adhd. I am glad I stuck it out because once that part was over, I was able to get some good insight and advice on raising my kiddo. I would definitely recommend it with the reminder that there is no one size fits all approach to mindfulness and meditation is certainly not the only way to be mindful.

blair gemmer

Life changing read for any parent with kids of all ages!

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2024

Really great book with lots of helpful practices and ideas to change the way you feel about being a parent and interacting with your children. I literally had no idea how any parent could get their kids to behave without corporal punishment until I read the chapter on "I language" and "win-win discussions". Very inciteful and worth every minute you read or listen to it.

Amazon Customer

Great perspective from a parent. Informative.

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024

I’m only 24 pages into this book and I absolutely love and recommend it!

Faye Laherty

A rushed read but impactful

Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2024

I rushed to read this book on my Libby subscription and wish I'd had more time to really delve into the exercises. I am a huge supporter of mindful meditation and I swore Hunter was in my house watching me parent. I was raised on screaming and spanking/hitting so breaking that cycle has been a massive difficulty. I'm in therapy and have often bemoaned I CANNOT figure out my triggers. This book has me noting what's the most triggering and being able to remove them (sensory related) or work through them. This book helped me identify so many underlying issues that I was taking out unfairly on my toddler. I recommend this book to anyone looking to parent a better human, but be prepared to do the SELF WORK. because we have to become better to better our babies ????

Josie

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2024

Love it, definitely a good read.

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