The Artist's Way for Parents: Raising Creative Children

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Julia Cameron's million-copies selling The Artist's Way, now reinvented to help you raise creative, inventive children and discover new closeness in your family For years, Julia Cameron was asked by devotees of The Artist's Way if she would consider writing a manual for children, so that they too could experience the same transformative experience of discovering their creativity. As her daughter begins to have children herself, Julia turned back to her own techniques, and those of her hundreds of clients, for how to bring about a more open, creative, grounded childhood, one that leads to a fulfilled adulthood. As Julia says, 'Parenting is a great adventure. Awakening your child's sense of curiosity and wonder helps you to awaken your own. Awakening your own sense of curiosity and wonder helps you awaken your child's.' Julia Cameron's techniques for creativity will quickly show you how- - Exercising creativity, alone and together, strengthens the bond between parent and child - How creativity can guide your child to an expansive and adventurous life - How your child can learn to understand their emotions, spend time playing away from screens, become more socially able and independent

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The book is packed with exercises to try on your own and with your children The Guardian Julia Cameron's best-seller The Artist's Way has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide. Now she's written an eagerly awaited follow-up - to help foster children's creativity. The Guardian

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Julia Cameron has been an active artist for more than thirty years. She is the author of more than thirty books, both fiction and non-fiction, including bestselling works on the creative process: The Artist's Way, Walking in This World and Finding Water. Also a novelist, playwright, songwriter and poet, she has multiple credits in theatre, film and television. Emma Lively has served as Julia Cameron's business manager for a decade, and has contributed music and lyrics to Julia's musical works.