CONNECTION PARENTING is based on author Pam Leo's seven week parenting series, "Meeting the Needs of Children," that she has been teaching for over sixteen years. The premise is that a strong parent-child bond is the key to children's optimal human development and our most "effective parenting tool. Connection Parenting is a proactive approach to parenting that supports parents and caregivers in creating and maintaining the strong bonds children need to thrive.
ForeWord Magazine BOOK-OF-THE-YEAR 2005 FINALIST. Pam Leo's work is receiving critical acclaim for its profound importance to the parenting community:
Joseph Chilton Pearce, author, MAGICAL CHILD: "Over the years I have followed Pam Leo's laudable work as a teacher of parents and expecting parents. No other issue facing us today is so critical as this work of hers, re-establishing parental bonding with infant-child as nature intended. Indeed, our survival as a nation and species is dependent on this reconnection."
Suzanne Arms, Founder of Birthing The Future, author, IMMACULATE DECEPTION: "Connection Parenting is the book we will all wish our parents had read when we were born and passed on to us when our children were born. For parents and grandparents who want the best for their children of any age, Connection Parenting contains the sacred grandmother wisdom that will reconnect us with our children."
John W. Travis, MD, MPH, author, WELLNESS WORKBOOK, cofounder Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children: "Our best hope for transforming the lives of children is connection parenting."
Meryn Callander, President and cofounder Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children: "Connection Parenting speaks to the very heart of what both children and parents need in order to thrive, rather than merely survive...connection. Supporting parents in strengthening the parent-child bond is the responsibility of each and every one of us, and the prerequisite to the well-being of our world."
Ray Castellino, DC., RCST: "Every child, every parent needs Connection Parenting. Pam Leo's brilliant work, Connection Parenting, is on the top of our reading list."
Barbara Wishingrad, Founder and President, The Rebozo Way Project: "Connection parenting is the perfect extension of in-arms, continuum, or attachment parenting with our little ones--and it fits in our present day culture in a way that makes it accessible to families from all kinds of backgrounds and belief systems."
Jen Noble, Editor/Publisher Parent & Family: "Pam Leo's Connection Parenting urges us to use what time we DO have to connect with our children, and to make an effort to create that special one-on-one time. Her poignant words offer a positive and proactive approach to parenting within today's limitations and pressures, without a load of guilt and blame placed on busy parents."
Aletha Solter, Ph.D., Director of the Aware Parenting Institute, author, THE AWARE BABY: "Among the hundreds of parenting books available today, Pam Leo's handbook, Connection Parenting, is like a breath of fresh air. Don't be deceived by its simplicity. She has captured the essence of good parenting with profound and compassionate advice."
Diane Gossen, author, IT'S ALL ABOUT WE: "I am delighted with Pam Leo's book. It has a host of practical ideas anyone of us can use to enjoy our children or grand-children."
Tom Adams, Founder, KidFlourish: "I loved Connection Parenting because it gently encouraged me to connect with my kids in ways I hadn't quite heard before. Thanks Pam, for sharing this wisdom in a powerful yet uncomplicated way."
Lisa Reagan, co-founder Families for Natural Living: "Grounded in field-tested experience for three decades, Pam's illuminating insights into the components of creating and preserving the sacred bond between parent and child picks up where basic attachment parenting and Continuum Concept recommendations end. Readable, practical, compassionate."
ForeWord Magazine BOOK-OF-THE-YEAR 2005 FINALIST. Pam Leo's work is receiving critical acclaim for its profound importance to the parenting community:
Joseph Chilton Pearce, author, MAGICAL CHILD: "Over the years I have followed Pam Leo's laudable work as a teacher of parents and expecting parents. No other issue facing us today is so critical as this work of hers, re-establishing parental bonding with infant-child as nature intended. Indeed, our survival as a nation and species is dependent on this reconnection."
Suzanne Arms, Founder of Birthing The Future, author, IMMACULATE DECEPTION: "Connection Parenting is the book we will all wish our parents had read when we were born and passed on to us when our children were born. For parents and grandparents who want the best for their children of any age, Connection Parenting contains the sacred grandmother wisdom that will reconnect us with our children."
John W. Travis, MD, MPH, author, WELLNESS WORKBOOK, cofounder Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children: "Our best hope for transforming the lives of children is connection parenting."
Meryn Callander, President and cofounder Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children: "Connection Parenting speaks to the very heart of what both children and parents need in order to thrive, rather than merely survive...connection. Supporting parents in strengthening the parent-child bond is the responsibility of each and every one of us, and the prerequisite to the well-being of our world."
Ray Castellino, DC., RCST: "Every child, every parent needs Connection Parenting. Pam Leo's brilliant work, Connection Parenting, is on the top of our reading list."
Barbara Wishingrad, Founder and President, The Rebozo Way Project: "Connection parenting is the perfect extension of in-arms, continuum, or attachment parenting with our little ones--and it fits in our present day culture in a way that makes it accessible to families from all kinds of backgrounds and belief systems."
Jen Noble, Editor/Publisher Parent & Family: "Pam Leo's Connection Parenting urges us to use what time we DO have to connect with our children, and to make an effort to create that special one-on-one time. Her poignant words offer a positive and proactive approach to parenting within today's limitations and pressures, without a load of guilt and blame placed on busy parents."
Aletha Solter, Ph.D., Director of the Aware Parenting Institute, author, THE AWARE BABY: "Among the hundreds of parenting books available today, Pam Leo's handbook, Connection Parenting, is like a breath of fresh air. Don't be deceived by its simplicity. She has captured the essence of good parenting with profound and compassionate advice."
Diane Gossen, author, IT'S ALL ABOUT WE: "I am delighted with Pam Leo's book. It has a host of practical ideas anyone of us can use to enjoy our children or grand-children."
Tom Adams, Founder, KidFlourish: "I loved Connection Parenting because it gently encouraged me to connect with my kids in ways I hadn't quite heard before. Thanks Pam, for sharing this wisdom in a powerful yet uncomplicated way."
Lisa Reagan, co-founder Families for Natural Living: "Grounded in field-tested experience for three decades, Pam's illuminating insights into the components of creating and preserving the sacred bond between parent and child picks up where basic attachment parenting and Continuum Concept recommendations end. Readable, practical, compassionate."
