Ken & Elizabeth Mellor (Finch Publishing, Sydney, 2004) (214 pages)

Also published in USA

 Ken & Elizabeth Mellor (2nd. Edition, Finch Publishing, Sydney, 2001)  (248 pages)

Also Available in Kindle from Amazon

In this wide-ranging and practical guide to parenting,  There is clear information on  the role of parents, important parenting skills, how our family backgrounds contribute to what we do, and the cycles and stages of childhood.  They explore themes that relate to managing families, catering for the needs of parents and children, love and discipline, setting standards and limits, and integrating important values into parenting.

"At last the Mellors have written down their ideas on child-rearing.  We have used their approaches for seventeen years and they really work," - George & Jenny, parents of three.

This first edition is the same as the second with the exception of the cover picture, the subtitle of the book and a few paragraphs at the beginning of the "Parenting with love" chapter. 

In this wide-ranging and practical guide to parenting, There is clear information on the role of parents, important parenting skills, how our family backgrounds contribute to what we do, and the cycles and stages of childhood. They explore themes that relate to managing families, catering for the needs of parents and children, love and discipline, setting standards and limits, and integrating important values into parenting.

"At last the Mellors have written down their ideas on child-rearing. We have used their approaches for seventeen years and they really work," - George & Jenny, parents of three.

Easy Parenting is about meeting the challenges and dealing with the difficulties that parents face, so they can raise their children to become happy, well balanced adults. In Easy Parenting, Ken and Elizabeth Mellor also suggest ways to handle friction in families. The book includes both what parents can do and how to learn to do it.

Enjoyable to read, easy to understand and straightforward to apply, the book contains many practical skills and approaches, including:

• different ways of loving your child
• "nagging" effectively as part of teaching children
• effective ways to discipline
• struggling with children for their benefit
• developing your child's self-esteem
• getting your child to understand what you say
• finding out what your child needs
• managing conflicts between brothers and sisters.

Easy Parenting is taken from the middle third of ParentCraft, Ken & Elizabeth Mellor's internationally acclaimed book on parenting.. The contents are the same with a few minor additions.

The Happy Family is about how to make family life enjoyable, stable and secure for all involved. Ken and Elizabeth Mellor provide simple, easy-to-use ways to manage our families well so they provide what is needed. They suggest that our families are classrooms for life and little communities in which children learn how to live in the wider world.

Their practical advice on how to do this includes:

• understanding and shaping your family patterns
• creating balance between family life and work
• learning from our own childhood experience of families
• ways of ensuring your own family works well
• handling family conflicts
• creating and working together in a parenting team.

The Happy Family is taken from the first third of ParentCraft, Ken & Elizabeth Mellor's internationally acclaimed book on parenting.. The contents are the same with a few minor additions.

Stephen Karcher has created a wonderful book for couples using the Chinese Oracle - the I Ching.  As usual, the simplicity and beauty of  his writing makes this book very easy reading and wonderfully rich in the contribution it can make to people who wish to enhance their relationships with each other.  Stephen presents the hexagrams as they apply to relationships, enabling readers to apply the ancient wisdom of the I Ching to the complexities of the way we love one another today.

Ken & Elizabeth Mellor joined forces with Stephen to add the richness of their approach to his. They provided Reflections and Practices for each of the hexagrams - amounting to about 16% of the text.  As spiritual mentors, they have introduced many thousands of people to meditation and other enlightening techniques. Their experience as counsellors and psychotherapists and their shared life as a couple make them particularly at home in the blend of the practical, psychological and spiritual that is the heart of this way of the lover.