Family Life: The Most Important Values for Living Together and Raising Children Kindle Edition

I recommend this and all of Jesper Juul's work to all humans, but especially to parents and every kind of caregiver, educator, therapist, you name it. Juul's perspective is clear, wise, brilliant, balanced, and valuable beyond measure. I can't at the moment find words to do his work justice, but let's just say I am devouring (and then immediately wanting to re-devour) every book, article, video, anything I can find by Jesper Juul (in English). You will not regret the purchase of any of his books.

I with I read this when I was 12.I wish I read it when my children were 3.I wish I read it before my daughters turned teenagers.I am happy I read it now.A man not afraid of thinking new thoughts and breaking with conventional thinking.

Very interesting and useful book. A bit of a step-down after reading 'Your Competent Child'. Still quite practial and thought-provoking.

Jesper Juul has written a great number of books on raising a family, interacting with children and on relationships more generally. This volume is an excellent summary of some of his main ideas (which obviously do not differ much from book to book). These revolve around giving family members equal dignity and are very humanistic in nature.One should - according to the author - never consider the parental authority to be a sufficient excuse to treat children with disrespect and to not afford them the same consideration, even if one cannot attribute to them the same responsibility as to adults.This most certainly does not conform to the more traditional approach to raising children (should be seen, not heard...) and is a more dialogue based method. It is - just like expounded upon more fully in  No!  - important that parents treat themselves with a modicum of self respect, too, though.An important distinction remains though - trating children with equal dignity does not mean fulfilling their every demand. While the author is adamant that a children's needs are to be met as well as possible, he makes a clear distinction between needs and wants. Furthermore children mostly express their wants and it is the parents' responsibility to give what they need, rather than slavishly follow the childs' every request, which very quickly upsets the familial balance.Like his other work, the book comes illustrated with a raft of examples both from his travels and his experiences as a parent and therapist. This makes the concepts mentioned much better understandable. Nevertheless, like in his other works he fails to become doctrinal and you will certainly not find lists of points that can be esily applied for quick results - complete anathema to his general approach.So if you are willing to buy into the author's philosophy - which I would personally very much recommend at least trying - the book is likely to see quite some use and you will get a solid summary of all his main concepts and arguments here. As long as you do not enter with the expectation of a manual, it is a solid five star effort in my opinion. No!

I really enjoyed reading that book! I can really recommend it to everybody who does want general ideas of parenting and being a family.

I found this book excellent. It helped me improve the quality of every day family life.The author analyses different dynamics very profoundly and suggests alternative approaches to situations. I recommend this book to everyone interested in mutual respect in a democratically organised family.

Excellent book, I really enjoyed reading it. I feel that it defines very well daily issues in communication with children and partner. Saying that, you need to be open enough to read it as a learning material of your environment and not as a tool of blame against your partner, which is an easier choice

Not a good idea to make a book fatter by spacing out the text, I found this edition unreadable, and will have to return the book and search for another edition. Why on earth did you print it like that?