Why write a book about the parent-child relationship?
The parent-child relationship deserves greater support.
The parent-child relationship is a lifelong journey of empowering shared experiences. Those experiences hold immense potential for meaning. This is one of the key relationships in all of our lives. In many ways, its health determines our health. Sadly, few parent-child relationships fully appreciate what they have in common, so they only haphazardly share their lives for full impact. Parent-child relationships have the power to improve that, but not always the knowledge and skill.
The parent-child relationship deserves powerful support.
We can improve our parent-child relationships through active, not passive, sharing. Knowledge of our full experience is the key--sharing our full experience increases the likelihood that we will have the desired impact on the people that we love. The better a parent shares themselves with a child, and the better that a child shares themselves with their parent, the more they know of one another. Knowledge is power only if it is used wisely, so parent-child relationships must learn to share wisely and powerfully.
The parent-child relationship deserves long-term support.
You Make Me Brave Too helps parent-child relationships thrive by intention over their lifetime. It supports them with empirical knowledge, relatable illustrations, and inspiration from eternal wisdom. In great detail, it explores how parent-child sharing changes over a lifetime, how parent-child relationships can face and overcome the painful challenges of life, and it describes exciting new tools for parent-child sharing, tools that result in more impactful sharing as long as the relationship lasts.