Nurture: The art of parenting

Nurture: The Art of Parenting by Peter Alsop and Nathan Wallis is a book about community and about fostering the potential of children to boost New Zealand’s wellbeing. It is a compilation of parenting ideas shared by parents who are keen on growing the greater good.

These parents challenged the norm of keeping parenting views to ourselves and demonstrated that everyday parents have great ideas that should be shared. Nurture links these generously gifted ideas to key personal virtues for living a great life. The virtues—wisdom, courage, compassion, integrity, self-mastery, and belief—are derived from the field of positive psychology, which is the study of happiness and wellbeing.

These virtues are essential to cultivate in children and, to support child development, should also be developed within our families, communities, and schools. The book is illustrated throughout with beautiful photos from mid-century New Zealand. The linking of ideas with imagery invokes a head-heart response, offering a powerful invitation for reflection, learning, and growth.

By opening our hearts and minds to ideas—both sharing them and receiving them—we embrace a timeless truth: it takes a village to raise great children. Nurture invites us all to lead the way to a community and country of new possibilities.