Radical Parenting

Seven Steps to a Functional Family in a Dysfunctional World

By: Dr. Brad Blanton

Narrated by: Etain O'Kane

Radical Parenting brings together the revolutionary ideas in psychotherapist Brad Blanton's other books - Radical Honesty, Practicing Radical Honesty, and Honest to God (with Neale Donald Walsch). The honesty and openness of the author himself about his own children is combined with the wisdom gleaned from years of work with people suffering from how they were raised.

This book does no less than create an entirely new blueprint for parenting. It's for people who really want to transcend the limitations of the family and culture in which they were raised. It is based on decades of work with thousands of individuals and families, as well as the most recent scientific research on brain physiology, biochemistry, cognitive theory, evolutionary theory, cultural anthropology, and psychological growth and development. The goal of this book is to show parents how to parent consciously, so they can prevent crippling their children in the same ways they were crippled in their own families and schools. It goes into intricate detail about how human minds get built, how they function, and how they malfunction. It gives practical examples of what to attend to with children from the beginning of their life, and how to be with them as they grow. And it rants eloquently against the cultural limitations that make us blind to how we re-create suffering, so we can nurture our children in a way that allows them to remain playful and curious all the way into adulthood.

©2002 Brad Blanton (P)2014 Brad Blanton

Great information

Brad provides some amazingly profound perspectives on parenting and life in general, that everyone can benefit from.

Copy-paste book, but still worth reading

Most of the text is copy-pasted from other sources mainly Brad Blanton’s other books. While many points have to be repeated, I did not find this copy-paste writing in real harmony with the radical honesty concept. Most readers will expect that books with different titles have different contents. Of course, there are some new important ideas here, but I did feel a bit misled into relistening to so much of the same material in word-for-word repetition.

Such a negative tone!!

I have gotten through 10 out of 30 chapters of this book and couldn’t make myself listen to anymore of it. It’s very presumptuous about you as a reader and that you are coming from a bad place in life and everything around you sucks. It’s written in a very negative tone and in the 10 chapters that I forced myself listen through it didn’t have much substance but vague generalities. Waste of my time. Also I didn’t quite understand why it was read by a female even though it was written by a male with a male perspective