REALITY-BASED PARENTING

Reality-Based Parenting: How Parents Of African Descent Can Cultivate Loving Relationships With Their Children Is A Thoughtful Inspirational Sensitive And Culturally-Driven How-To Manual Designed For Parents In The African Diaspora Who Long To Know Themselves. The Cumulative Effect Of Self-Discovery (Development Of Self-Awareness And Acquisition Of Self-Knowledge) Is The Transmission Of Cultural And Spiritual Heritage To The Next Generation. . As A Developmental And Transformational Process Reality-Based Parenting Is Culturally Specific Not Universal. This Is Based On The Multi-Cultural Premise Of Fullness Before Overflow. That Is To Say A Group Must Recognize And Affirm Itself Before It Is Able To Share And Appreciate The Differences Of Others. Cultural Competency Then Is The Distinguishing Characteristic Of Reality-Based Parenting. Through This Book Parents Are Enabled To Use What They Have Their Cultural Strengths To Obtain What They Want: A Tested Plan For Nurturing Children A Formula For Instilling Disciplining In The Young A Model For Psycho-Social Recovery. . Conscientious Readers Are Inspired To Apply The Books Content To Activities Of Daily Living So That Our Sons May Flourish In Their Youth Like Well-Nurtured Plants; And Our Daughters May Be Like Cornerstones Polished After The Similitude Of A Palace (Psalms 144: 12-14).