Superparenting: Child Rearing for the New Millennium

"When "Law and order" are enthroned in the child's mind, that mind will have stability. When love is enthroned in the child's heart, there will be strength. Great souls have both." -- Professor William Maxwell Mary E Maxwell, William Maxwell, Jim Pearce, Ruth Leilani Smith. "SuperParenting: Child Rearing for the New Millennium" The problem presented in the book "SuperParenting" is that today's society is not fully educated on the proper way to raise a child. The Authors speak that not everyone is educated on how to properly take care of a child and because of that it causes are children to be less intelligent and not allowing them to fully contribute to the betterment of society and its entire people. The Authors address how even the children being born in regions without the vast metropolis, such as in the Ibo tribe of southeastern Nigeria, can be more intelligent, physically and spiritually healthier then other children born in the states because the tribe know how to take care of the children versus the states and how most parents are uneducated on child rearing because of multiple different reasons mainly because their parents didn't teach them right and it becomes a endless cycle. The book strives to brake the habits and myths of taking care of a child and instill the correct way to rear a child to further benefit not only the children of the future but the future itself by helping create a better child. Professor William Maxwell, Ed.D., has many qualifying attributes to writing about the worlds techniques of child rearing and how affective they are. William Maxwell has traveled the world with his wife for many years living, experiencing, and studying multiple different cultures and how they partake in their everyday life and how they go about educating their young. Professor William Maxwell has significant achievements in his life one being he is the founder of the International Conference on Thinking, while at the University of the South Pacific, which was the world's first academic conference focused on teaching the thinking process (Maxwell p.170). Mary Elizabeth Maxwell, the late wife of Professor William Maxwell was trained by multiple different Universities as well as experiencing and helping multiple different cultures as she accompanied Professor William Maxwell on his journey through life. She studied public health nursing which allowed her to analyze the different cultures that she experienced along with her husband. She worked in America on helping the immigrants of different locations, with their health care problems, quarantines, and newborns. Her assortment of knowledge of health care and child rearing makes her more then qualified to write about how to further better your child by taking certain steps and precautions to making them a healthier and more competent child (Maxwell p.170). Ruth Leilani Smith earned her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at Illinois Wesleyan University, and a Master of Arts in Tourism and

I just had the pleasure of reading SuperParenting, and I don't think I can adequately describe how much I enjoyed this remarkable book. The authors utilize a very effective technique of presenting many many short chapters, which makes it easy to read and follow. Each chapter is full of useful information but none is so long as to overwhelm you as a reader. I also loved the way Dr. Maxwell and the other authors used examples from other cultures to explain and support their ideas--I fully believe that we have a lot to learn from other people throughout the world on parenting as well as other topics. I found the information in the book to be very thought-provoking as well as filled with a great deal of common sense. As an example, the suggestion that babies be born in rooms with dim light is a very good one, and the explanation makes complete sense. This is a great book for people who would like to become parents, expectant parents, and parents of all ages. I think it would also be very useful for grandparents as well. I look forward to the next book by this team of authors.

This is a book worthy of your time if you are a parent, grandparent, future parent or as a gift to someone who will become a parent. His long and sensitive experience as an educator and psychologist come out on every page. It makes interesting and thought provoking reading for almost everyone. Personally, I strongly recommend this book not only for your own library but as a gift to your friends.

There may not be another book on the market that offers such timeless insight and invaluable wisdom to those who are engaged in the most important occupation on the planet: parenting. What is there that is more important? We are required to take classes to read and write, to drive a car, to install new plumbing, or to perform an operation, but what requirements are there to have a baby and raise it effectively and successfully? None, except perhaps a fertile, ample body. The accidental human being, a dangerous experiment, has proven to be a costly, tragic endeavor, whereas the designer human being -- going beyond mere material concerns for eye color and body type -- is not only possible but inevitable with books like SuperParenting at hand. Now, at last, here is a book for parents and prospective parents that goes beyond the obvious instructions of diapering, bathing and feeding. Finally, more subtle needs are addressed as well. The authors have considered every aspect of the precious opportunity that exists when having a child, elevating the experience of parenting to one of the highest services one may render... from the importance of the psychospiritual and emotional climate of the mother and father during the prenatal period to the carefully constructed wholistic environment needed during and after birth, from infancy to adolescence. Imagine the implications of life in just one generation with a beginning that is as well-planned and thoughtfully prepared as this book suggests. Not only is this book invaluable for those who are in the process of pregnancy, it is also an important book to give to people who are in a pre-parental stage in life. I would hope that a curriculum for high school and college students would include this book. Then I can rest assured that the children of the future will be in good hands, and we will indeed progress as an "ever-advancing civilization".

Freud was right: the primary sources of human anguish are attitudes, beliefs and unresolved angers from the earliest days of life. The emerging universal human culture must begin the educating of future parents from the prenatal period. We can break the vicious cycle of incompetent parenting by using ancient wisdom, modern science, and the in-born, natural inclination of every child to improve upon his/her parents' child rearing practices. Montessori showed that children's purity of heart helps them to choose a path superior to that of their parents in virtually every domain, from which toy to play with, to which food to eat, to which teaching style to use in which circumstance -- when the choices are available at the appropriate "sensitive moment." Thus the parenting role is much more subtle than previously suspected. The book begins with six general principles that are universal; continues with mate selection ideas -- be careful --; advises that we make sure that the mother's body is prepared for the arduous task of child-bearing; educates the father that his protective role is an essential and sacred one, etc. This book, when fully understood, will help revolutionize child rearing. It is a book for the new millennium.