The Spiritual Child

The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving Paperback – May 10, 2016
Author: Lisa Miller ID: 1250033837

Review

“Hundreds of books discuss parenting issues, but The Spiritual Child is a special resource with a focus on fostering children’s spiritual lives. Perceptive, thought-provoking, and heavily researched, this is a valuable book for anyone interested in spiritual development in children, adolescents, and families.” Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE HAPPINESS PROJECT

“Lisa Miller is the leading psychologist of her generation on the benefits of religion and spirituality. She asks, What makes life worth living’ and finds evidence-based answers.” Martin E. P. Seligman, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, bestselling author of AUTHENTIC HAPPINESS and LEARNED OPTIMISM

“Who can take the elusive subject of spirituality, subject it to rigorous scientific inquiry, and teach us more about it than we ever imagined? The answer is Lisa Miller. While honoring its depth and complexity, she shows in this important book how and why spirituality nourishes our children’s well-being. And most important of all, she shows parents how to help this happen.” Carol Dweck, PhD, Lewis & Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology, Stanford University, author of MINDSET: THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY OF SUCCESS

“A masterpiece. The Spiritual Child is an outstanding blend of science, psychology, and spirituality. Essential reading for anyone raising a child or helping others take care of their own children. This practical, complete, and easy-to-read book changes the landscape on raising children to be happy, healthy, and flourishing.” Andrew Newberg, M.D., author of HOW GOD CHANGES YOUR BRAIN: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist

“Startlingly fresh scientific research and beautiful teachings about the many ways children can lead parents to deeper spirituality and fulfillment. The Spiritual Child is a fascinating, ground-breaking and important work.” Wendy Mogel, author of the NYT bestseller, The Blessings of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children

“Wonderful and thought-provoking . . . a warm, hopeful, and encouraging call for parents to nurture their children’s spirits as well as their bodies and minds. Thank you Dr. Miller!” Harvey Karp M.D., New York Times bestselling author of The Happiest Baby on the Block

“A reassuring and instructive lesson in spiritual parenting . . . nurturing spirituality in your children may save them a world of pain.” Kirkus

“Provides thoughtful advice on encouraging the quest for meaning and purpose in a child’s life . . . full of teaching moments, plenty of families’ stories, and lots of sage advice, this highly readable volume should prove useful for unaffiliated and observant parents alike.” Publishers Weekly

–This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Lisa Miller, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Education, and Director of the Clinical Psychology Program at Columbia University, Teachers College. She is also Director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute. Dr. Miller’s research has been published in journals including JAMA-Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. She has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and Weekend Today as an expert psychologist. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and three children.

Paperback: 384 pagesPublisher: Picador (May 10, 2016)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1250033837ISBN-13: 978-1250033833Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #96,809 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #41 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Religious Studies > Education #228 in Books > Medical Books > Psychology > Child Psychology #284 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Psychology & Counseling > Child Psychology
This book is mesmerizing, fascinating, and absolutely brilliant.

Allow me to say from the outset, the work presented in this volume far exceeds relevance to insight toward child development. It is not only a window into the mind, psyche, and soul of a child… No, it is a portal peering into the great mystery of each of us.

Be advised, this book is not a book about religion nor does it purpose an agenda. This is likely, in my opinion, one of the most object treatments of the concepts relating to human spirituality that I have encountered. I have appreciated the science behind Lisa Miller’s (author) observations as much as I have appreciated her "real-life" observations and anecdotes. As I have read through The Spiritual Child, I have been aware of my own thoughts getting carried away with considerations and critical reasoning of the thoughts presented to me. In other words, I am being fully engaged by this book. I am engrossed and invested…I’m considering my own upbringing as well as the raising of my own children and I’m considering the implications of my involvement as I prepare for the welcoming of my first grandchild in the coming months. This, to me, is the sign of a well-written, well-researched, and well-presented book. Honestly, I was hooked even from the introduction.

It is evident from dialectical flow of this book that Lisa Miller is a scientist (Clinical Psychologist and Director of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University). Do not let this revelation lead you to consider the book is written in academic speak; it is not. Dr Miller writes as a parent as much as a scientist and presents her thesis and findings in a conversational tone. As I mentioned earlier, I was drawn in to the discussion as early as the introduction.
In spite of the ample wisdom shared throughout this book by Lisa Miller, Ph.D., someone who has spent her career in the pursuit of reconciling scientific absolutes with more personal, human truths, I came away unconvinced. To me, this book could have been titled, "The kind and empathic child who has been taught a self-regard that stands apart from achievement or public approbation, who has an appreciation of the past and is imbued with a passion and curiosity about the universe and humanity’s future." Okay, that’s way too long a title, but I’d dispute the idea that the Important Things ticked off by Doctor Miller necessarily fall under the larger umbrella of "spirituality", except in the sense that all moral and even a lot of aesthetic understanding is about creating meaning out what seems all too random or arbitrary.

A lot of parents, particularly, will approach this book with a singular question: "Am I doing the right thing by my child/children: fostering a sense of deeply felt responsibility to his or her fellow beings, a sense of awe and connection with nature, etc.? If that parent was raised religious but is no more, it can be a particularly loaded question.
My kids are teens-and-up, so I guess my thoughts in reading ran more to "DID (past tense) I do the right thing?" Did I fail, because I didn’t have a particular interest in nurturing the idea of a "higher power?"

Well, I did share Carl Sagan with them. Made them read and watch stories and shows that posited futures to be hoped for and others to be feared, got them thinking about how tiny a human lifespan is as compared to that of a giant Sequoia, how young our species is, and how vast the universe.

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