Parenting from the Inside Out

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• btilly · Aug 25, 2010 · Recommends

  Parenting from the Inside-Out. If you're willing to work your way through it slowly, and do the exercises, it is invaluable. If you just read and understand it intellectually, the benefit is not nearly so great.

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• btilly · Jan 4, 2011 · Recommends

  …is not sufficient to be a decent parent. I assume you mean parent in the limited sense of social educator else this is something of a truism; could you expand on this? I'm going to suggest the book Parenting From The Inside-Out for an exploration of the ways in which our interactions with our children shape their ability to integrate their emotional and logical responses of the world into a useful, coherent, whole.

  on “Freakonomics: Game Theory and Child-Rearing” ↗
• AceyMan · Sep 19, 2017 · Recommends

  Off the top of my head, "Unconditional Parenting" by Alfie Kohn is a seminal text in the field. "Parenting From the Inside Out" by Daniel Siegel & Mary Hartzell is wonderful as well.

  on “Kids Praised for Being Smart Are More Likely to Cheat” ↗
• boon · Sep 23, 2019 · Recommends

  …the follow-up "No-Drama Discipline", and hoping it will provide even more practical advice in this area. "How to Talk So Your Kids Will Listen, and How to Listen So Your Kids Will Talk" is also good. "Parenting From The Inside Out" is a gut punch about getting your own psychological problems addressed first. I'll also say that prioritizing sleep (as best as you can), proper diet, exercise, and healthy boundaries between work/home…

  on “Ask HN: Parents of HN, what are your best sources for evidence-based parenting?” ↗
• jtr1 · Jun 11, 2022 · Mentions

  I’m reading “Parenting from the Inside Out” right now and it dives into a lot of the ideas you’ve mentioned, looking at how memories and self-narrative formed in early childhood, but also how they inform adult responses to the experience of parenthood.

  on “It matters how you raise your kids” ↗
• n4r9 · Jun 17, 2026 · Mentions

  …"learning that...". Good self-help books can provide a framework to understand how your own childhood development influences your current behaviours, and how you can work to change. I'm currently reading "Parenting from the Inside Out" which goes into both the psychology and neurology of the developing brain, and explains how insecure childhood attachment can propagate across generations. I have a mixture of dismissive/avoidant and…

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