SeaWorld could be used to foster strong and trusting relationships in the business world. Why could not parents learn to “catch kids doing things right?”

As with the first book, the method was to weave the killer whale training information into the human story we were concocting. This time it was about how Amy, a woman learning to be a trainer of killer whales at Sea World, collaborates with her husband Matt to apply the techniques she learns at work to the typical issues encountered in raising of their two-year-old son: potty training, mealtimes, bedtimes, sharing, pet care, sharing, etc.

Why Whale Done Speaks to Me

Writing these two books has deepened my emotional and spiritual investment in the Whale Done message of accentuating the positive. I am stirred by the tremendous good Whale Done Parenting can do in the world. Like Matt and Amy in our story, most parents need help in making sure that their every interaction with their children conveys their love and approval by focusing on what those children do right. While Whale Done Parenting shows them how to consistently act from the principle of ignoring mistakes and rewarding successes, enlightened parents can embed in that strategy a message that reaches to the heart of the child:

There is a world of goodness in you, which we never stop looking at.

Since the truth (ignorance of which leads to all the world’s miseries) is that a person is not his or her body-form, but the infinite soul that dwells within it, true parenting must acknowledge this in the child by focusing on the positive aspects of his/her development. By rewarding what he does right and ignoring or redirecting what he does wrong, the soul-facilitating parent demonstrates that what that child is made of is precious. Dig down and bring up that precious part of you, the Whale Done parent conveys. That child’s nature will then respond, as a young plant does to sunlight.

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