Books Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids  by Hunter Clarke-Fields MSAE (Author), Carla Naumburg PhD (Foreword)

"Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids" by Hunter Clarke-Fields MSAE offers practical, mindfulness-based strategies to help parents move away from reactive, impulsive parenting toward thoughtful, calm, and respectful communication with children. The book emphasizes the importance of parents managing their own stress and emotional responses in order to model kindness, empathy, and emotional regulation for their kids.

Key Themes

Breaking the Cycle: Identifying and breaking negative generational patterns of reactive parenting, such as yelling or physical punishment, that parents often unconsciously inherit from their own upbringing.

Mindfulness Practice: Using mindfulness to stay present and regulate one’s own emotions during parenting challenges, helping parents respond instead of react.

Modeling Behavior: Children learn primarily through observation, so parents are encouraged to model kindness, calmness, empathy, and effective communication.

Communication Skills: Teaching parents reflective listening, respectful boundary-setting, conflict resolution, and how to foster cooperation rather than compliance.

Self-Compassion: Encouraging parents to practice compassion toward themselves, recognizing parenting is hard and nobody is perfect.