I have been slowly reading this book. Throughout the book, there are suggested journaling activites to work through how you were parented and how it effects how you parent. It has been SO enlightening to see the ways my parents and grandparents have affected my parenting style.
Most of all this book looks at a child as a person. Not as a sub-person who needs trained, but as a person. Each child is a gift from God and we can treat them with respect. The child you have been given to care for is an image of God. They are to be loved not controlled. It is all about "power with your child" rather than "power over." I am slowly learning while I slowly read.