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 MIRACLES FORBREAKFAST
byRUTH MINSHULL
 
TABLE OF CONTENTSChapter 1................................................................................................................................3PARENTHOOD HOW TO ESCAPE TOTAL RUIN...........................................................3Chapter 2................................................................................................................................5TO BE OR NOT TO BE PERMISSIVE?..............................................................................5Chapter 3................................................................................................................................11“HE HIT ME FIRST!”...........................................................................................................11Chapter 4................................................................................................................................14CIVILIZED COMMUNICATION........................................................................................14Chapter 5................................................................................................................................18WHAT TO COMMUNICATE..............................................................................................18Chapter 6................................................................................................................................20IS HE A PROBLEM OR A PROBLEM SOLVER?.............................................................20Chapter 7................................................................................................................................24IS IT SAFE FOR YOUR CHILD TO TALK TO YOU?......................................................24Chapter 8................................................................................................................................30STICKS AND STONES........................................................................................................30Chapter 9................................................................................................................................33WHAT IS SECURITY?.........................................................................................................33Chapter 10..............................................................................................................................36FIGHTS, FITS, AND TEARS...............................................................................................36Chapter 11..............................................................................................................................40RESPONSIBILITY AND JUDGMENT...............................................................................40Chapter 12..............................................................................................................................43GIVE YOUR CHILD HIS FUTURE.....................................................................................43Chapter 13..............................................................................................................................46THE SUPPRESSIVE PERSON.............................................................................................46Chapter 1 4.............................................................................................................................49THE BODY...........................................................................................................................49Chapter l 5..............................................................................................................................52“IT’S MINE!”........................................................................................................................52Chapter 16..............................................................................................................................55TELEVISION—MY PREJUDICES.....................................................................................55Chapter 17..............................................................................................................................57SOMETHING CAN BE DONE ABOUT IQ........................................................................57Chapter 15..............................................................................................................................59ODDS AND ENDS................................................................................................................59Chapter 19..............................................................................................................................62THE LAST WORD................................................................................................................62GLOSSARY..........................................................................................................................64
 
3Chapter 1PARENTHOOD: HOW TO ESCAPE TOTAL RUINIt’s not easy to stop being a parent once we start the whole thing. We can’t very well walk off the job or hand back the birth certificate and say, “Sorry, we’re not compatible.” And societyfrowns on most other means of disposal that may be provoked by moments of stress.So, if we’re going to do anything to relieve the frustrations of child raising, there remainsonly one respectable solution (the path of most resistance): learning to understand and handlethe little darlings and/or monsters.This may sound impossible. But if you can still hope, there may be a chance.I know this because I was a terrible Mother myself. Frustrated and overwhelmed, I was onceconvinced that while I floundered, children were getting ready to take over me, society, andundoubtedly the planet.I’m not a Child Authority. I used to be one.But that was before I had children of my own.After I became a Mother, I knew I needed help. I tried many things. I read child psychologybooks avidly, looking for a key to the mystery: How could I retain my sanity and still be aparent? I didn’t find it. The advice I read always sounded good. It just wasn’t workable.Knowing I should “understand the needs of the child” didn’t settle things when my sonthreatened to murder his playmate in a squabble over some toy. There were times when I hadto remind myself, quite sternly, that “Motherhood is a joyous and fulfilling experience,” as Iscraped dried cereal off the walls or rinsed out a pungent diaper.The books told me that I should have “love and tolerance.” Yes. That sounded right.Meanwhile, back at the split level, the day-by-day demands were slowly stripping off thatveneer of love and tolerance and exposing the beast in me.By the time my husband and I were expecting our second child, I concluded that I still knewfar too little about handling children, although this was to be my major occupation for someyears.I started thinking about Scientology. Here, I knew was an international group doing extensiveresearch on human behavior. I read the early books of Scientology (by L. Ron Hubbard) in1951 and 1952, but I lost touch with the progress of this research. Checking through the localphone book, I found a Scientology Center located in a northwest suburb of Detroit.Soon I was enrolled in a beginner’s class. I enjoyed that group, both the study and the peopleI met. All of them were individuals who were capable of looking beyond the daily routine toseek a richer life.My prime interest, however was to learn how to apply Scientology in raising children.
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