{"product_id":"9781514401675","title":"REALITY-BASED PARENTING: How Parents of African Descent Can Cultivate Loving Relationships With Their Children","description":"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 book’s 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).","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47171653730544,"sku":"9781514401675","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781514401675_p0.jpg?v=1763725528","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781514401675","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}