The Way with Children
Ancient Wisdom for Leading Modern Young People
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Broken 22 If you want to be a leader of youth And a truly competent parent: Let yourself be whole By allowing yourself to be broken Let yourself retain straightness By allowing yourself to bend Let yourself be filled up By allowing yourself emptiness Let yourself become renewed By allowing yourself to wear out Teach your children to have little So they might receive much Having a lot just confuses them Masterful leaders embrace the Tao And truly become patterns for the young: Not displaying The children see their light Not justifying The children trust their words Not self-asserting The children recognize their merit Not prideful in being The children allow their influence to endure Not contending The children surrender to their invitations The Ancients proclaimed: “Let yourself be whole By allowing yourself to be broken” This is not just some idle saying! For if you really do become whole Competencies with children Will come to you of themselves
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The Tao Te Ching is revered as one of the most powerful cannons of wisdom about leadership and governing, used by teachers, monks, chiefs, generals, and emperors for centuries. The Way with Children, by author M. Shayne Gallagher, offers a “transduction” of the Tao Te Ching into a version useful to those who work with young people as a leader. Any teacher, school administrator, program staff member, coach, mentor, and especially parent, can benefit by gaining an understanding of the principles illuminated by the Tao Te Ching, especially one translated into a version just for them. Written with special care to instruct the instructor, The Way with Children contains a series of passages and poems. It’s a tool designed to help one ponder and re-center to benefit relationships through a discovery of ancient truths. As a student of the Tao Te Ching for more than thirty years and as one who has worked with troubled teenagers in behavioral health programs for nearly as long, the principles have helped Gallagher understand how to work with at-risk youth. He shares those ideas in The Way with Children.
About the Author
M. Shayne Gallagher has more than a quarter century of experience designing and operating behavioral health and addiction treatment programs for adolescent children. He has been a lifelong student of Tao Te Ching, applying its precepts to a career of working with those who work with children. He and his wife, Sheri, have six children and live in the four corners area of the southwest.