Uncovering the Ancient Wisdom of Raising Happy, Helpful Children: What We Can Learn from Traditional Cultures about Parenting

Cheyenne: Honestly no matter what age your child is this book is absolutely amazing. Very eye opening. After finding this book I can promise you, you’ll never need another parenting book. Also amazon offers this book on audible. If you don’t have time to actually read the book in hand I highly recommend giving it a listen. I love this book so much and am so grateful to have found it

United States on Oct 01, 2023

Kindle Customer: I've written so many parenting books but nothing seemed to work. After reading this book, I realized in which ways my behavior and words were escalating many situations with my kids. I have learnt to ignore their bad behavior, stay calm while they are upset and most importantly I started to see them as capable individuals who can do many things on their own and also help each other out.

Netherlands on Sep 26, 2023

Laura Elena Ochoa Gómez: I really loved this book and hoped I had read it earlier. Will be a keeper to reread every once in a while.

Germany on Sep 23, 2023

Pam: This book was so eye opening especially for us in our current season of the toddler stage. It has been a great book, very easy to read and implement in stages. Everything I read and tried from this book has worked wonders with my children and made me realize the frustrations and friction we were having weren’t from them, but from me and my stubbornness to “control” or “help”. My husband isn’t a big reader but I loved the summary page at the end of each chapter that has key takeaways and he did great reading those so we could be on the same page! Can’t recommend this book enough!

United States on Sep 05, 2023

Matthias Nyvelt: Wir haben dieses Buch zur Geburt unseres vierten Kindes gelesen. Ich wünschte, wir hätten schon es zum ersten gelesen. hier werden so viele Themen angesprochen, die einen lange frustriert haben. Wir sind gerade mit unseren vier Kindern in der Umsetzung was nicht immer einfach ist aber wir sehen Fortschritte.

Germany on Aug 23, 2023

Lotte: I like how it’s gonna help me be a better mommy. While reading this I already feel more relaxed and no urge to constantly talk and tell my son what to do.

Netherlands on Aug 09, 2023

Steph: This book is full of gold nuggets. There’s no list of formulas to follow to “improve you child”, more of a step back and allow the child to try, and the TEAM approach makes this book well worth the read!!

Australia on Jun 02, 2023

Leon Maurer: The basic idea of this book is really simple: if you want children to stop acting like babies, then you need to stop treating them like babies. This isn't something you can do overnight, and the book suggests tools and timelines to make it happen. I strongly recommend this book --- especially if you had a standard American upbringing but your spouse didn't (more on that later).

Probably my biggest takeaway from the book is that kids, even really young ones, want to be helpful, so you should let them --- even if they screw up at first. This solved a 30-year-old mystery for me. When I was a kid, I often played with legos with some friends, and when we were done, we'd have to clean them up. We viewed this as a chore, but the younger brother of one of my friends was really excited to help clean up. I could never understand why he was so excited to help with such a boring thing, but this book explains it. He wanted to be helpful.

I'm a scientist, and one thing I really like about the book is that it explicitly doesn't rely on scientific research (the author explains this clearly in the book). That may sound like a weird thing for a scientist to like, but quite frankly,...

United States on Apr 07, 2021

Bookworm: Ooo, this book was soooo good that I have too much to say and not enough time to write it all! I’m excited to be the first reviewer to have already put these parenting strategies into action and say—yes, this works! My six year old is cooking and cleaning, and she is more peaceful and even sleeping better than she has been in years. Even the baby is happy because we are including him in everything we do as a family.

I was able to do get these results so quickly because I was already many months into implementing a complementary educational philosophy (Montessori) at home. Hunt Gather Parent gave me some of the context I was missing to make phenomenal changes in my household in literally just a few days. This is an important book for parents, grandparents, nannies and other caregivers. This knowledge is desperately needed in the US today!

So as the book jacket explains, this is the story of an American mom, Michaeleen Doucleff, who brings her three year old daughter Rosy along with her as she lives and learns about parenting with families from three indigenous populations—the Maya in Yucatan, the Inuit in the Arctic circle and the Hadzabe in Tanzania. The book...

United States on Mar 09, 2021