Every parent secretly wonders: am I raising a child who can stand on their own feet and still stand beside others? Between school pressures, busy schedules, and glowing screens, it is easy to slide into managing performance instead of building character. This book offers a calm, practical alternative for readers looking for values based parenting that holds firm without becoming rigid. Across warm stories, simple frameworks, and age-banded checklists, it shows how to raise raising independent kids by turning ordinary moments into practice for life. Instead of one more theory-heavy manual, it reads like a practical parenting workbook you can keep on the kitchen table. You will learn how to design a living family values charter, build positive parenting habits, and use chores and allowance as everyday tools for teaching responsibility at home. Chapters on resilience, gratitude, and volunteering translate big ideas into small, repeatable actions. You will see how autonomy supportive parenting can work in real homes, how to weave mindful family routines into evenings and weekends, and how to grow resilience for children through safe, everyday failures. The result is a grounded, hopeful guide for anyone who wants fewer lectures, more laughter, and a home where children quietly learn to help, decide, and care.
Roots & Wings
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- Reema Sanzari writes from the messy, hopeful middle of family life. As a parent of two and a long-time facilitator of small-group conversations with mothers, fathers, and carers, she has spent years listening to what really happens between school runs, work deadlines, and bedtime battles. Her work is rooted in the belief that ordinary homes can be training grounds for courage, kindness, and clear thinking, without turning parents into full-time entertainers or drill sergeants. Growing up in a crowded, multigenerational flat, Reema watched chores, stories, and humour hold several generations together through change and uncertainty. That early experience of shared responsibility and informal rites of passage shapes her insistence that character is caught, not simply taught. Today she designs simple tools and frameworks that fit around real lives: family values charters scribbled on scrap paper, pocket-money jars on kitchen counters, and five-minute reflection routines that children actually enjoy. When she is not writing or leading community workshops, you will usually find her on a park bench, taking field notes on how families really talk when they think no one is listening.
