Table of Contents 01. Parent and Child, A Happy Relationship My Precious Baby / The Joyful Changes of My Growing Child / If I Were to Raise a Child Again / My Little Barnacle / Reducing Power Struggles with Your Child / Seeing Mom Through the Child's Eyes / My Relationship with My Second Child, Chorok-i / Where Does a Child's Happiness Come From? / Sometimes Being a Mom Is Hard / Healing My Own Inner Unhappiness Through My Child's Love / Bringing My Husband Into the World of Parenting Education... 02. Parenting, With Endless, Considerate Love My Curious Little Explorer / Each Child Has Different Times of Focus / For Creativity to Bear Fruit / When I Scolded and Spanked My Child / How a Child Feels After a Sibling Is Born / Social Skills Grow From a Parent's Love and Empathy / Building Your Child's Focus / Loving My Second Child No Matter What / A Sensitive and Particular Child / The Jar-Shaped Child and the Gourd-Shaped Child / Raising a Child With Balanced Intellect and Emotion 03. Reading, the Hope for a Child's Future Things That Help Language Development / A Child Who Speaks Later Than Peers / Ages 0–12 Months: Stimulating the Five Senses and Becoming Friends with Books / Ages 13–18 Months: Learning About Objects Through Nature Play / Ages 18–24 Months: Expanding Language Through Books / Ages 24–48 Months: Absorbing Knowledge Like a Sponge / What Can I Give My Child? / Pureumi's Speed-Reading Journey / Books That Prepare a Child for the Next Leap / Using Nature Observation Books and Picture Encyclopedias During a Reading Break / Why Children Sometimes Avoid Books / Reading Education: A Lazy Mom's Hopeful Approach / How to Help Your Child Read Independently / Repeating Books as Much as the Child Wants / Learning English Early Through Picture Books / 10 Ways to Raise a Child Who Loves Reading 04. Family, the Energy of My Life When Poverty Sometimes Makes Life Hard / A New Mother's Postpartum Depression / Time With My Child Matters More Than Housework / The Aftermath of a Failed Business / Our Family's Head Chef, Pureumi / What It Means to Live as a Married Couple / How My Husband's Praise Changed His Wife / My Greedy Husband, Pureumi's Dad Publisher's Review A Message of Hope for Raising a Happy Child Written like poetry, this book weaves together the everyday struggles and small joys of raising children. Through the experience of raising two children—Pureumi, known as a reading prodigy, and his younger sibling Chorok-i—the author candidly shares the failures that came from not understanding her children's growth and development, the regrets of knowing but not always practicing what she believed, and the things she feels she did manage to get right. It is a humble, unembellished parenting book. Written in a relaxed essay style, each line carries the wisdom the author gained from countless parenting books she read, as well as insights earned through her own trial and error as a mother. It gently guides readers to discover for themselves how to let go of parental expectations, accept their child as they are, and truly love their child in the right way. Seeing Through the Child's Eyes, Understanding the Child's Heart "Raising a child is a process in which a mother, who once knew only herself and lived centered on her own needs, grows alongside her child and comes to understand what truly considerate love means." There is no parent who doesn't love their child—only differences in how that love is expressed. Pureumi's Mom's Parenting Messages devotes much of its pages to emotional connection between parent and child. The author explains that only when we step into our child's world, understand their feelings, and meet them with our own matching emotions, does the bond between mother and child truly deepen—and parenting itself becomes joyful. Through everyday moments spent with her children, she quietly reveals the secret to building a happy family and raising a truly happy child, even amid financial hardship. A Quiet Story That Moved 200,000 Mothers to Tears "The process of raising my child was, in truth, the process of my own growth." Pureumi's Mom's Parenting Messages is a compilation of essays the author posted over three and a half years on an online parenting education site—each post drawing hundreds of comments and resonating with over 200,000 mothers. Sharing the everyday struggles that every parent faces, along with the lessons instinctively learned through raising children, this book—accompanied by warm illustrations—offers quiet, heartfelt comfort rooted in the ordinary moments of family life. Though not all of the heartfelt, tearful comments from readers could be included in the book, their lingering impact remains—making this a landmark work that expanded the horizons of emotionally honest parenting literature.