Growing Up in Trust: Raising Kids Without Rewards or Punishment [Paperback]

What a wonderful book. Such a simple message, and yet so important and so challenging! This is the best of the many books I have read on how to bring up children with integrity. This is how I want my grandchildren to be brought up. And this is how I want to behave in many of my other relationships too. All parents should read it. --Susan Norman, Former Director of SEAL (Society for Effective Affective Learning)

Justine Mol is an internationally certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication according to Marshall Rosenberg. She lives in the Netherlands. Justine Mol (1949) was born in a Dutch catholic family. She was the seventh child out of ten. She raised three children of her own and has supported her present partner in guiding his two teenage-daughters towards becoming who they are. You could say she is an experienced mother. In 1999 she read an article on Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg and in September 2004 she was certified as an international NVC trainer. In the course of these years she started writing articles on NVC and the Raising of Children. She also translated two books into Dutch: The Inside Story, Understanding the Power of Feelings, and Teaching Children to Love by Doc Lew Childre, both books published by the Institute of Heart Math in California. After Growing up in Trust she wrote De Giraf en de Jakhals in Ons (2007) (the giraffe and the jackal in us). This book will be published in English, when time is ready. Besides writing she gives trainings and lectures on her books and on NVC in the Netherlands and abroad, guides people through personal processes in individual coaching and disarms texts like official papers and challenging letters. Justine experiences these past few years as a completely different phase in her life. She considers what she did before 1999 as developmental track in which a fertile piece of land was created on which she could grow as an NVC trainer and author. She started her career as a teacher of English and after that she was a speech therapist for 25 years in which profession she worked mostly with children and the grown-ups who raised them. She always has searched and still is searching for connection with the spiritual world. She does this by reading and following courses. Once in the fields of edukinesiology, reiki, different arts and anthroposophy. She is exploring her connection with nature and the elements in the Celtic Christianity. She keeps growing and developing. In March 2008 she resigned her CNVC certification. She still lives and works in the spirit of NVC. In May 2008 she finished a training in Zen Coaching with Kåre Landfald from Norway.