Chess Parenting - Paperback
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The Unschooling book 'Chess-parenting' presents a revolutionary concept to parenting that is based on mutual respect and on the fact that parents too need to grow up! It criticizes the way we manipulate and program our children to become copies of ourselves and of society, and how we expect them to obey and live by values we never teach or demonstrate. Chess, as a means to establish some equality and to give kids a chance to win, is shown to develop values such as truth, courage, commitment and self-responsibility. This lifts kids beyond mere opinion and indoctrination and enables them to establish true confidence, a sense of reality and a relationship with the parent where the parent is no god-like figure.
Western society does not value truth and it is disrespectful to children, which is the cause of most problems with 'crazy teenagers', who simply want to find their own way. Chess fosters respect and it naturally evolves those attitudes towards life that build character and that achieve naturally all we try to force down our children's throat! It is the way to competence, for both parent and child!
Born 1955 in Germany, studies of law and economics at Augsburg University.
At age twenty, the author was an international globetrotter, and dedicated to psychic experiments and spiritual disciplines.
While studying law, he found months each year to train with shamans in remote places and natural societies.
He left Europe and law at age 28 for a cave in the Philippines, but ended up having children in New Zealand and raising them on his own.
Throughout his life he pursued a spiritual path, particularly the Taoist disciplines of transforming sexual energy into higher awareness, and shamanism.
Apart from being a dad, travel, building houses and landscaping, he spent his creative time teaching chess, spiritual counselling, healing, traveling inner worlds, gardening, tree-planting and writing.
The author's source of insight is not intellectual thought, but acute observation, untainted by any one cultural or personal perspective. He spent the last twenty years mostly living in the "bush" in NZ, in relative isolation from society, meditating on timeless things and cultivating inner abilities...
He foresees a very difficult future for mankind and therefore wishes to contribute by publishing some of his unusual work.
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