If we really want to change the world, let's raise a generation "built for peace"... from the very beginning. Parenting for Peace is a user-friendly scientific roadmap for how to do exactly that... while bringing more joy into family life! Parenting for Peace details a unique seven-step, seven-principle matrix for hardwiring our babies and children with the brain circuitry for such essential peacemaker capacities as self-regulation, empathy, intelligence, trust and imagination. The win-win is that a child wired in this vibrantly healthy way is a joy to parent, and as an adult has the heart to embrace and exemplify peace, the mind to innovate solutions to social and ecological challenges, and the will to enact them. To be successful in a changing world. Parenting for Peace offers readers a user-friendly shortcut around today's information overload, because it gives them the most important research from dozens of leading experts woven together with its own empowering perspectives on bringing more joy into family life. Children are our future, and the values of now are the values they will bring with them when they rule the world. Axness advises readers on thinking for the future. *Parenting for Peace* is a strong pick for parenting collections, very much recommended reading. -- Midwest Book Review Marcy Axness's efforts to educate our world are vital to our evolution! I'm so glad she's telling the growth-or-protection story because simple fundamentals are where the truth is. -- Bruce H. Lipton, author, Biology of Belief and Spontaneous Evolution Dr. Axness has distilled compelling evidence from the fields of attachment parenting, preconception, and consciousness research into a readable, inspiring and hopeful book about what we really want to do as parents: raise peaceful people. Parenting For Peace gives us a roadmap. -- Peggy O'Mara, editor-in-chief, Mothering Marcy Axness lays down the simple but profound principles and practices required to raise generations comfortable in their hearts and happy with themselves. A tranquil revolution of the soul and of the home that would benefit all humanity. -- Gabor Maté, author, Scattered and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts I know of no one so well equipped educationally, intellectually, emotionally and intuitively to speak to our times. -- Joseph Chilton Pearce, author, The Biology of Transcendence and Magical Child Marcy Axness' book has a beautiful message supported by sophisticated understanding of the underlying science. I have borrowed her remarkable translations of findings from our NIH-funded projects in my own lectures. -- Curt Sandman, fetal brain development researcher My first impression of Parenting for Peace was like King Joseph’s comment to Mozart, "too many notes," to which the young man replies, "which ones shall I omit?" The core principles that Marcy Axness elaborates—Presence, Awareness, Rhythm, Example, Nurturance, Trust and Simplicity—are superb. Like a tuning fork, each resonates as a particular ‘state’ in the adult and it is this state that the child attunes herself to. Axness has collected tons of insights, from many fields, all designed to crack open and release the false hopes and false fears most of us have about ourselves. If there is a ‘cosmic egg,’ it is our self-world view, our social-cultural identity and the labyrinth of habits of body and mind that reincarnate these shell-like qualities, moment by moment, year after year, generation after generation. There are moments when Presence, Awareness, Example, Nurturance, Trust and Simplicity express something more, infinitely greater and outrageously more sensitive and intelligent than the ‘eggs’ we pretend to be. The key is sparing our children the need for that heavy, self-centered, defensive-reflexive, knee-jerk armor in the first place, which can unfold by not needing it in their primary relationships--that is, with adults, their parents. Adult development ALWAYS precedes child development and this new treasure nudges all of us along the way. Too many notes? Not one. --Michael Mendizza, co-author of Magical Parent, Magical Child Marcy Axness is making a huge contribution to the improvement of parenting with this book! --Stephane Goldsand, director/producer of Leap Before You Look Parenting for Peace is one of the best books I have read in years and it's a PARENTING book for Pete’s sake! I never read parenting books any more, but this one is so much more than just a parenting boo; it is an actual in-your-hands recipe for world peace starting from within the home. --Bryan Post, Founder and CEO of the Post Institute for Family-Centered Therapy I developed the steps and principles of Parenting for Peace over years of studying, parenting, counseling, listening, and observing. I have woven together skeins of intersecting knowledge from such far-ranging fields as psychology and theology... neuroscience and quantum science... anthropology and e