Cultivating Mindfulness to Raise Children Who Thrive - 9781138598232

Taylor & Francis

Cultivating Mindfulness to Raise Children Who ThriveWhy Human Connection from Before Birth Matters\nAuthor(s): Antonella Sansone\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138598232, 978-1138598232\nSynopsis\nCultivating Mindfulness to Raise Children Who Thrive introduces an expanded view of human development and health, which begins before conception and moves through pregnancy, early childhood and adulthood.\n\nThis book is a call for all prenatal and perinatal professionals and policy makers to appreciate indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing and integrate them with scientific evidence in the care of expectant parents and their babies. It explains how this could also tackle pressing social issues facing the modern world and favour social innovations through a revaluation of preconception, pregnancy, birth and childcare practices. Sansone presents the reader with scientific discoveries of epigenetics, interpersonal.