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Magical Parent, Magical Child
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If you are a parent or are considering becoming a parent, you owe it to yourself and your precious progeny to spend time with the works of Joseph Chilton Pearce, one of the world's greatest experts on the subject of child development. Given the incredible pace of recent discoveries about child development and parenting, even works from Pearce, while timeless and always provocative, must be periodically updated. This is the purpose and gift of Magical Parent, Magical Child: The Art of Joyful Parenting: five of Pearce’s main works from the last three decades are summarized and put into the context of recent discoveries and current understanding.
We live in a world full of books on parenting, most of which offer contradictory and counterproductive advice, to say the least. Pearce’s work is a great antidote to outdated and outworn schools of thought, for at least three reasons.
1. Joseph Chilton Pearce has distinguished himself over the years by being able to blend an understanding of advances in understanding in neurophysiology, neurocardiology, child psychology, and other scientific disciplines, with the wisdom and insights of mystics like Steiner and Krishnamurti. This results in a powerful, inspirational, and practical program that can transform parents and their children quite completely.
2. Pearce’s work is guided by a deep awareness of the power of emotions and the importance of our heart’s intelligence for our growth and full development. These subjects are becoming quite fashionable now, but Pearce, always on the cutting edge, has been speaking and writing about these subjects for several decades.
3. Pearce is not afraid of asking the big questions – the biggest questions. It is this kind of courage that brings forward the treasures of wisdom that Pearce is famous for. What is culture, really? How does it define and limit us, and how can we transcend those limitations? What was our educational system initially (and still) designed to serve? Are there viable alternatives to this system?
Should our concern about television be mainly about its violence and hypnotic commercial content, or does it actually adversely impact us at deeper, neurological levels, especially when our brains are developing? What are the implications for child development of the fact that nature designed us to have three distinct brains, but when we are born, we only have two? What is the true role of free play in a child’s development, and how does free play differ from activities organized for children by adults? Is there a relationship between the lack of free play as children, and violence by adults?
It is hard to think of anyone else who goes to the lengths Pearce does to synthesize and integrate the best knowledge of our time and to offer us a complete, new paradigm of child and human development.
Whether you have read Pearce’s books or heard him speak, or you are being introduced to him for the first time, Magical Parent, Magical Child is a book that can change your life. Read it and you can only benefit yourself and your family – for generations.
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