The Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali

Commentary On The Raja Yoga Sutras

BY SRI SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA
Required for the 2008 Gathering workshop #1. Awareness of Being and Body: Yoga (Geeta Jyothi McGahey). A complete manual for the study and practice of Raja Yoga, the path of concentration and meditation. The classic Sutras, at least 4,000 years old, cover the yogic teachings on ethics, meditation, and physical postures, and provide directions for dealing with situations in daily life.

IYP 1978 263 PP. Paper

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Ten Principles For Spiritual Parenting

Nurturing Your Child's Soul

BY MIMI DOE-WALCH AND MARSHA FAYFIELD-WALCH
For parents concerned about their family's spiritual growth, this timely work offers sound advice, as well as concrete guidelines on nurturing the spiritual development of children.

HarperSanFrancisco 1998 272 PP. Paper

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Forty Ways To Raise A Non-racist Child

BY BARBARA MATHIAS
Divided into five age-related sections, ranging from preschool age to the teenage years, this book provides helpful and practical ways parents can teach tolerance and compassion and contains specific advice addressing the unique concerns of both white parents and parents of color.

HarperSanFrancisco 1996 176 PP. Paper

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Raising Cain

Protecting The Emotional Life Of Boys

BY DAN KINDLON AND MICHAEL THOMPSON
In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson, two leading child psychologists, share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years of combined experience working with boys and their families. They reveal a nation of boys who are hurting - sad, afraid, angry, and silent. Kindlon and Thompson set out to answer this basic, crucial question: What do boys need that they're not getting? They illuminate the forces that threaten our boys, teaching them to believe that "cool" equals macho strength and stoicism. Kindlon and Thompson make a compelling case that emotional literacy is the most valuable gift we can offer our sons.

Ballantine Books 2000 320 PP. Paper

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Families Valued

Parenting And Politics For The Good Of All Children

BY JACK NELSON-PALLMEYER
A father explores how the needs of children can change personal and social priorities.

Friendship Press 1996 276 PP Paper

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How To Talk Sokids Will Listen And Listen So Kids Will Talk

20th Anniversary Edition

BY ADELE FABER AND ELAINE MAZLISH
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk provides all the know-how required for happier, more constructive parent-child relations. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down-to-earth, respectful approach of Faber and Mazlish makes interaction with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding. The Christopher Award-winning authors share their latest insights and suggestions based on feedback they've received over the years. Their real-world methods offer tips on handling children's negative feelings, expressing anger without being hurtful, setting firm limits, and how to resolve family conflicts peacefully.

Quill 1982 286 PP. Paper

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Living Simply With Children

A Voluntary Simplicity Guide

BY MARIE SHERLOCK
"The purpose of this book is to help parents navigate the maze of materialism and the frenzied pace that society sets up for them and their kids. It will show parents how they can shelter their kids from the corporate culture; teach and model important values like compassion, generosity, and respect for the earth; and slow down and enjoy both quality and quantity time with their families. And it will make clear to parents that by doing these things, their kids' childhoods will be focused on the good stuff, which of course isn't stuff at all." From the Author

Three Rivers Press 2003 304 PP. Paper

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Unconditional Parenting

Moving From Rewards And Punishment To Love And Reason

BY ALFIE KOHN
Most parenting guides begin with the question "How can we get kids to do what they're told?" and then proceed to offer various techniques for controlling them. Educator Alfie Kohn asks, "What do kids need -- and how can we meet those needs?" What follows from that question are ideas for working with children rather than doing things to them. Unconditional Parenting addresses the ways parents think about, feel about, and act with their children. It invites them to question their most basic assumptions about raising kids while offering a wealth of practical strategies for shifting from "doing to" to "working with" parenting.

Atria Books 2006 264 PP. Paper

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The Natural Child

Parenting From The Heart

BY JAN HUNT, FOREWORD BY PEGGY OMARA
"The Natural Child is a collection of essays on parenting and education which I wrote between 1988 and the present. The essays were written to help parents and future parents understand the critical importance of treating their children with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion from infancy into adulthood. I hope to inspire parents toward a new way of being with their children that allows for a mutually trusting and loving relationship based on respectful, gentle guidance and emotional support." - from the author's Introduction Jan Hunt is a Friend.

New Society 2001 192 PP Paper

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Above All, Be Kind

Raising A Humane Child In Challenging Times

BY ZOE WEIL
Above All, Be Kind teaches parents how to raise their children to be humane in the broadest sense-to become not only more compassionate in their interactions with family and friends, but to grow up to make life choices that demonstrate respect for the environment, other species, and all people. The book includes chapters for early, middle, teenage, and young adult years, as well as activities, issue sidebars, cases, tips, and profiles.

New Society 2003 272 PP. Paper

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Ecokids

Raising Children Who Care For The Earth

BY DAN CHIRAS
A hopeful and inspiring guide for parents, topics covered include ways to avoid gloom and doom in favor of positive solutions, foster love and empathy for nature, develop environmental values, and put values into action. Each chapter includes a case study of a child who's making a difference, short pieces that highlight serious problems such as global warming, along with positive solutions that can be read aloud to children, and activities for children. A resource guide lists helpful books, articles, videos and organizations.

New Society 2005 240 PP. Paper

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Answering That Of God In Our Children

Php 315

BY HARRIET HEATH
"Seeing my child as a wonderer with the potential of growing into goodness expands my understanding of that child and defines my role as a parent or caregiver. I can be a loving guide rather than only a strict authority figure or only a loving companion. The stories in this pamphlet, drawn from life, illustrate the wondering that our children do and the role it opens for us who live and work with them." - Harriet Heath.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1994 39 PP. Paper

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God Raising Us

Parenting As A Spiritual Practice

BY EILEEN FLANAGAN
When Eileen Flanagan became a mother, her spiritual world was dramatically discomposed. Bringing children into her life required her to find new ways to discern God's leadings; her ways of experiencing connection to the Divine were transformed; and her personal spiritual practices were tried, tested, and ultimately reinvented. In telling her own story - the challenges faced, the lessons learned - she calls on Friends to recognize parenthood as a phase of spiritual development with special gifts and needs, and suggest ways that we may begin to support the faith lives of parents and help our meetings be more fully multigenerational. Discussion questions are included.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2008 31 PP. Paper

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Homeschooling And The Voyage Of Self Discovery

BY DAVID ALBERT
"David Albert reaches out to every reader as if he is there with you enjoying a cup of tea. Not a methodology, not a structure to incorporate, but a refreshing way of conceiving of things that liberates you to think freely about how to learn with your children." - Sherry Stacy.

Common Courage 2003 224 PP. Blank

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Have Fun. Learn Stuff. Grow.

Homeschooling And The Curriculum Of Love

BY DAVID ALBERT
Gently and passionately, homeschooling advocate David H. Albert insists that the curriculum of love is not about externals. It is about what is essential in each individual human being, and in every child. Its code words are communication, inquisitivness, acceptance, joy, honesty, and courage. It demands that we assist our children in seeking to embrace a world that is their own, and prepared to render up her secrets. It is about surprises, unveilings, moments of spontaneous recognition, journeys completed and new ones waiting to be undertaken. Have Fun. Learn Stuff. Grow. is a powerful, humorous, fearless, and thoroughly appealing approach to learning.

Common Courage Press 2005 192 PP. Paper

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At Work In Life's Garden

Writers On The Spiritual Adventure Of Parenting

EDITED BY SARAH CONOVER AND TRACY SPRINGBERRY
In these vivid personal essays, Barbara Kingsolver, Anne Lamott, Alexandra Fuller, Scott Russell Sanders, Beth Kephart, Barry Lopez and many other prominent writers, an amazingly ecumenical group, explore the endless surprise and spiritual enrichment that parenthood offers, even at its most difficult. "All parents are on their own hike, with their own children, with their own lessons to learn. 'At Work in Life's Garden: Writers on the Spiritual Adventure of Parenting' is a wonderful companion on the journey." - Mimi Doe

423423 2005 241 PP. Paper

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Using Your Values To Raise Your Child

To Be An Adult You Admire

BY HARRIET HEATH
This is a thought-provoking and insightful book on parenting by a Friend, which will help parents integrate their values into family life and pass them on to their children.

Parenting Press 2000 176 PP. Paper

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Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids

7 Keys To Turn Family Conflict Into Co-operation

BY SURA HART AND VICTORIA KINDLE HODSON
This handbook urges parents to move beyond typical discipline techniques by creating an environment based on mutual respect, emotional safety, and positive, open communication. The seven outlined principles redefine the parent-dominated family by teaching parents how to achieve mutual parent/child respect without being submissive, set firm limits without using demands or coercion, and empower children to open up, cooperate, and realize their own innate potential. Based on Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication process, the framework helps parents break down the barriers to outstanding relationships with their kids by avoiding destructive language and habits.

Puddledancer Press 2006 208 PP. Paper

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Connection Parenting

Parenting Through Connection Instead Of Coercion, Through Love Instead Of Fear

BY PAM LEO
"Connection Parenting" is based on author Pam Leo's seven week parenting series, "Meeting the Needs of Children," that she has been teaching for over sixteen years. The premise is that a strong parent-child bond is the key to children's optimal human development and our most effective parenting tool. "Grounded in field-tested experience for three decades, Pam's illuminating insights into the components of creating and preserving the sacred bond between parent and child picks up where basic attachment parenting and Continuum Concept recommendations end. This readable book offers practical, compassionate parenting tools..." - Lisa Reagan

Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing 2007 216 PP. Paper

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One Small Plot Of Heaven

Reflections On Family Life By A Quaker Sociologist

BY ELISE BOULDING
More than any other single book, this is an intelligent and sensitive manual for Quaker parenting and family life. Elise Boulding, noted sociologist and peace activist, talks about practicing peace making in family life and creating a colony of heaven, "a home of peace from which to help build a more peaceful world." Boulding speaks of children and solitude, the personhood of children, Friends testimonies in the home, families as centers of peace and love, Quaker foremothers as ministers and householders, reweaving the web of family life for lesbians and gays, the re-creation of relationship and the family as a small society. Boulding offers an inspiring vision for the family.

Pendle Hill 1989 225 PP. Paper

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Simple Riches

Reflections On The Work Of The Quaker Parent

BY JUDY & DENIS ASSELIN
Key ingredients to successful Quaker parenting: "living simply, loving unconditionally, and having faith."

Southeastern Yearly Meeting 1995 17 PP. Paper

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The Quakers - A Very Short Introduction

BY PINK DANDELION
This little book is the latest one volume introduction to Quakerism. Written by Pink Dandelion, Quaker Studies teacher at Woodbrooke, this text presents an overview of Quaker identity, history, worship, theology, belief and ecumenism. Dandelion also offers a concluding chapter on the future of Quakerism and presents a chart o n three branches that he identifies: evangelical, conservative and liberal. Dandelion's approach offers a welcome addition to introductory texts, though not all will agree with the conclusions and characterizations that he asserts.

Oxford 2008 160 PP. Paper

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A Quaker Book Of Wisdom

Life Lessons In Simplicity, Service, And Common Sense

BY ROBERT LAWRENCE SMITH
Since its publication there has been a great deal of controversy over this book. As reviewed by Chel Avery in Friends Journal:"This well-produced, highly readable, lunch-bag-sized book by a birthright Friend... is probably the best-promoted and most accessible title about Quakerism currently available in the mainstream book market. It is too good to ignore and too flawed to recommend without serious reservations.... There will be something to trouble everyone-and from this, I have high hopes for continuing frutitful dialogue."

HarperCollins 1999 144 PP. Paper

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Listening To The Light

How To Bring Quaker Simplicity And Integrity Into Our Lives

BY JIM PYM
This book is an essential contemporary introduction to Quakerism written by a noted British Friend. Using many quotations from Britain Yearly Meeting's Faith and Practice and other prominent sources, Pym summarizes Quaker thought and spiritual practice without over-simplifying it. This book is a useful guide both for inquirers and seasoned Friends who long for an accessible, clear and contemplative presentation of the core elements of our faith today. Includes advices and queries, a fine bibliography and other resources in the appendices.

Rider Books 1999 192 PP. Paper

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Advices And Queries

BY BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING
This little pamphlet has the core of Quakerism in its questions and advice on living a full and whole spiritual life in your community. Ideal to carry in your pocket or handbag, for contemplation and to give to interested people.

Britain Yearly Meeting 1994 24 PP. Tract

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A Light That Is Shining

An Introduction To The Quakers

BY HARVEY GILLMAN
This is Harvey Gillman's 2005 revision of his introduction to British Quakers. It arose out of an experience the author had telling a group of non-Friends about Quakers. It includes chapters entitled `The Foundation: God within the Heart,' `Worship: A Quiet Waiting,' `Origins and Development: The Growth of the Quaker Outlook,' `From Conviction to Practice: Faith into Action,' `Quaker Organisation: Meetings and meetings,' `Quakers Today: Respect for Diversity,' and `Being Part of a Community: Membership and Commitment.' Also included is a bibliography for further reading.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2003 96 PP. Paper

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Silence And Speech

For Those New To Meeting For Worship

BY RICHARD ALLEN
This book offers practical tips to help newcomers to meeting for worship. It includes thoughts on preparation, vocal ministry, subject matter of the ministry, who may speak and the relationship of the meeting to daily life.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2004 14 PP. Paper

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Guide To Quaker Practice

Php 20

BY HOWARD BRINTON
This is an accessible, clear and concise description of Quaker distinctives, beliefs and practices. "For more than sixty years, Friends have used the Guide to Quaker Practice to demystify Friends' customary procedures. Howard Brinton wrote the Guide assuming that somebody would improve on his work as the Religious Society of Friends grew and changed in the second half of the twentieth century. His Guide proved more durable than he anticipated. He described Quaker pra ctice by reference to theology, applying historical precedent insofar as it did not interfere with the clear description of contemporary practice." - Jared Taber, from the new foreword

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1993 92 PP. Paper

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What Is Quakerism?

A Primer - Php 277

BY GEORGE T. PECK
This little pamphlet reads easily and covers the basics of Quakerism. Includes Friends' form of worship, lifestyle, activities in the world, structure, and terminology.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1988 48 PP. Paper

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Introduction From Quaker Spirituality

BY DOUGLAS STEERE
Thoroughly and thoughtfully describes the many aspects of Quakerism as they were and are lived. Especially good for serious inquirers, new Friends, and renewal study groups. Bibliography.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1988 56 PP. Paper

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