I practice gentle parenting. This book had me intrigued on how to add more mindfulness to my parenting. This book had alot of good guidelines and encourages you to figure out what works for you, which I really loved. Highly recommend!

I thought this book would be a lot of fluff but it was exactly the opposite.

Polat did a lot of research to provide readers with a heavy philosophical foundation for her concept of tranquility parenting.

Great book.. learned a lot of ways to parent calmly! Def recommend to parents! I'm an all over the place type of parent so it was nice for me to read about just parenting in different ways... loved this book!

I read this book partially for myself as a parent and partially because it seemed like it would be a good fit in my public library's collection (as both parenting books and books about mindfulness and similar topics are popular here). Unfortunately, it feels too heavy on philosophy to be the kind of book our patrons enjoy, and I admit I felt the same way.

Seeing the title of this book, I had very high hopes it would take me through many parenting experiences and help me to see how I can be a more peaceful mom. While I think the goal of the book may help some accomplish that, it did not for me, This book read more as a philosophical text on Stoicism and less like a parenting book. This book missed the mark for me, but I am sure that it will be a useful guide for many parents out there looking for a better way.

This book applies the ancient philosophy of Stoicism to parenting and modern life. I had never really heard of Stoicism before (except in the sense that a person who doesn't show emotions is referred to as a stoic person - not entirely correctly in relation to the actual philosophy). In some ways, the way I try to parent fits very well in this philosophy already (teach, don't punish; you can't control someone else, only influence them), so I was pleased on reading this to find a resource for developing that more. I definitely do lose my temper when I shouldn't, and having this actual philosophy/guide as a basis of determining how to deal with more difficult situations is hopefully going to be a plus. One thing the book stresses is to determine your core beliefs and your parenting beliefs. If you act in accordance with them at all times (whatever they may be), you shouldn't feel guilty or worry that you are a bad parent, etc. I feel already that I am pretty confident in my parenting beliefs and TRY to act accordingly, so maybe I have less work to do in that aspect, but again, I feel like some of the discussion here could help me stay focused on that when things are more difficult. Hopefully it could help me in situations outside of parenting too, and it was somewhat helpful during a really difficult time recently. Another point in favor of this for me is that it emphasizes realistic expectations over pessimism/optimism: expecting problems to occur and not being shocked when it happens but also not dwelling on the trouble it will cause, just being prepared for problems. That's something that is already important to me, so every little thing that already felt like it was saying, "You're doing things right" made me like this philosophy more! 4.5 stars rounded to 4, but I guess we will see over time how it holds up for me personally and maybe it will end up as a 5. I think it's the kind of thing I'd keep needing to refresh myself on as even taking a break of two days from the book made me less and less inclined to practice the thought processes or whatever (and picking it back up after a week or so off wallowing in self pity during the above mentioned difficult time actually helped refocus some of my energy), but maybe over time it becomes second nature.