The Art of Conscious Parenting
By: Jeffrey Fine, Ph.D. and Dalit Fine, M.S.
Publish Date: November 2009
Forward by Joseph Chilton Pearce
There are many books on parenting; library shelves bulge with them and a substantial number of them have landed, sooner or later, on my desk. Yet, in view of the rapid increase in the crisis of children affecting our nation, these literary efforts have had small effect.
Jeffrey and Dalit Fine’s magnificent opus is different—indeed, unique in all those crossing my path; and I have high hopes that this time, with this work, the vast bulwark of indifference such works have faced will be breached. I have rather lived with Jeffrey’s work since its inception, or conception, a number of years ago, and while his first drafts seemed to hold promise, I had no idea of the scope, breadth and depth there would be in this, the final result.
This book is far more than “just another book on parenting.” It is an encyclopedia, a whole education in and astonishing review of, the magnificent story of human conception, birth and development. Nor am I just (or overly) prejudiced by his references to my own work. He has, at the very least, not just placed me in very good company, but thankfully has gone far beyond my own more cursory and tentative earlier surveys, updating them with the knowledge available today concerning the practices of birth-bonding and child rearing. All of which knowledge is vast and magnificent and, within itself, the greatest story ever told or needing to be told.
Jeffrey’s research and references, vast and valid, center on his current and immediate experience. My books were written largely after the fact of the ghastly birthing, broken bonding and haphazard rearing of the first four of my five offspring. Looking back on the travesties of one’s own stumbling past is both painful and enlightening. On the other hand, however, Jeffrey’s insights are from his very current personal history concerning the comparatively recent conception and birth of his son. I stumbled into fatherhood and its ongoing series of exigencies and contingencies to be met as best one can. Jeffrey entered into the parent venture in an informed and intelligent manner, far more aware of what was at stake. It is my personal hope and prayer that now, as a result of Jeffrey’s work and that of many others, far more people can be even more informed and prepared than either Jeffrey or myself, Our survival as a species may well depend on such revelation.
Jeffrey and Dalit’s personal account of encounters with obstetricians and hospitals is both hilarious and sobering—a clear description of ill informed medical interference, too often crass indifferences and even stupidity.
-Joseph Chilton Pearce-
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