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Advance Praise for The Three Virtues of Effective Parenting

Shirley Yuen personally embodies the three virtues she shares with her children and encourages other parents to do the same. Precious treasure comes to those who are willing to take this new and unique path that leads to surprisingly effective results.

—BOBBIE SANDOZ MERRILL, author of Parachutes for Parents

Read this book and follow her wise teachings and you will be inspired to be a benevolent parent who will give your children the love and attention they so deserve. This book will open your eyes and your heart and will take you down many paths that you may never have traveled. Author Shirley Yuen will take you on the path that will lead to a healthier family where children are even more valued and even more loved.

—AILEEN DEESE, Executive Director of Prevent Child Abuse Hawaii

There is no single voice that has been more persistent in shaping human culture than that of Confucius, China’s preeminent teacher. In this slim yet brimming volume, Shirley Yuen brings the distilled values of the ages to guide us in our awesome, challenging, and sometimes overwhelming responsibility of being effective parents. For China, family has always been the governing metaphor in all aspects of the human experience. Yuen brings tradition and her own personal virtuosity in lived parenting to demonstrate how to grow our family relations, and in so doing, how to enchant the most common yet most valuable business of a human life.

—ROGER T. AMES, Professor of Chinese Philosophy, University of Hawaii

Yuen helps western parents practice the Confucian art of self-cultivation while raising children within the context of Western society. As she describes her mistakes and the work she did to correct them, reminding the reader that “Not correcting a mistake is a mistake” as Confucius said, she gives insight into how she learned to be a better parent with rare honesty and humor. I would heartily recommend this book to prospective parents, parents, and grandparents.

—HELEN P. YOUNG, Associate Scholar, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University