Diana Loomans - What All Children Want Their Parents to Know: 12 Keys to Raising a Happy Child

Advance Praise for
What All Children Want Their Parents to Know

Finally a parenting book filled with great ideas from a childs perspective! This exceptional book will empower parents to raise happy, unstoppable children into even more of their greatness!

Parents will want to keep this book close at hand its so much more than a one-time read! This is the kind of parenting book youll refer to time and time again. Its a simple yet profound guide to positive parenting.

Diana Loomans gets it more than anyone else I know. How wonderful that she and her daughter have created these pearls of wisdom for families everywhere. Parents will greatly benefit from this book, no matter what the age of their children. Study it and live it!

Decade upon decade, we parents have been told to listen to the experts so our children will grow up happy and whole. What a breath of fresh air to find authors who believe we must listen to the children themselves! In What All Children Want Their Parents to Know, Diana and Julia give practical advice on how to pick up on the way children express needs and react to the behavior of others, including ours! Page after page, stories abound some humorous, some gripping, some heartrending, and all vehicles for an important message: unconditional love, the most powerful and empowering force in the universe, is the essential ingredient to happiness for all adults, children, and families.

This book is a superb how-to manual for the most important profession in the world! It offers parents the needed skills to transform the spirit inside of every child, and propel tomorrows leaders into their full potential!

An H J Kramer Book

published in a joint venture with

New World Library

2005 by Diana Loomans

All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, or other without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

Text design and typography by Tona Pearce Myers

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Loomans, Diana.

What all children want their parents to know : 12 keys to raising a happy child / Diana Loomans with Julia Godoy.
p. cm.

Includes index.
ISBN 1-932073-13-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Parenting. 2. Child rearing. 3. Parent and child. I. Godoy, Julia,
1977 II. Title.
HQ755.8.L666 2005
306.874dc22

First printing, May 2005
ISBN 1-932073-13-2
ISBN 13 978-1-932073-13-3
Printed in Canada on partially recycled, acid-free paper
Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West

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I found this book to be full of wisdom and an excellent resource for perplexed parents who care. As the father of five I can attest to the effectiveness of the methods outlined herein.

Parenting is the worlds number one health issue. As a physician who counsels people with life-threatening illnesses, I have learned that those who grow up loved are a minority. I also know that if every child grew up loved by parents who had read this book and practiced its wisdom, the world would not be experiencing wars. The unloved are seeking, through their various addictions, the feelings of love and belonging they never received from their parents. They have grown up with beliefs to die by and not beliefs to live by.

If parents treated their children as well as they do their pets we would have healthier, happier children. When in doubt ask yourself, what would a loving grandparent do? It is not an accident that we have children and our children have our grandchildren and their children have our great grandchildren. The difference is in the maturity and ability to love unconditionally that comes to us with time.

Parents provide their children with both physical and psychological genes. What All Children Want Their Parents to Know will help you provide your children with the highest quality psychological genes and enable them to live long, healthy lives. It is time to leave behind your personal family experience and tragedy. My hope is that every parent reads this book and learns from its easily understood practical wisdom.

I learned a great deal from our children. When I lost my temper our son, who is a lawyer today, would say, Go ahead and hit me. It will hurt you more than it does me. But the son who ended any thought I had of ever spanking a child again said, If you hit me, Ill call the police. I am a person.

Helen Keller said that deafness is darker by far than blindness. So listen to your children and heal your family. When a child grows up with self -love and self-acceptance her parents have produced a happy child and a happy child is a success.

What do children really want their parents to know, and what do children need to grow into thriving adults? If kids could speak from the depths of their hearts, what would they want to say to their parents the people who will influence them more than anyone else?

This book addresses these vital questions from a childs perspective. It offers twelve powerful keys to raising a happy, responsible, and fulfilled child, based on the popular poem What All Children Want Their Parents to Know. My daughter and I wrote the poem to represent the collective voice of children and to express the desires they most want the significant adults in their lives to know.

Each chapter is devoted to one of the stanzas and is filled with hands-on stories and ideas designed with the busy family in mind, including several exercises at the end of each chapter. Since most parents have a deep desire to give their children the very best, and kids dont come with instruction manuals, this book offers practical guidelines to providing children with what they most need one step at a time. Read through each chapter, do the suggested exercises, and post the poem, printed in its entirety on the following pages, in a place where youll see it every day.