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Connected Parenting: Transform Your Challenging Child and Build Loving Bonds forLife

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A practical hands-on guide to helping parents improve their relationships with their children. This book is an incredibly helpful tool for parents seeking effective strategies for dealing with their challenging children and for fostering closer parent-child relationships. Parents will find the techniques in this book to be fresh, fascinating and insightful. Parents of anxious children will find this book particularly helpful.

Liana Lowenstein, MSW
Author several books including "Creative Interventions for Troubled Children and Youth"

Connected Parenting is a profound theoretical and practical approach to caring for and guiding our children. Many parenting models discuss the importance of empathic listening but Connected Parenting penetrates the usual lip service we as parents usually dole out to our children in our efforts to empathize since our own agendas are usually front and center. Connected Parenting requires that we slow ourselves down sufficiently to become less reactive and better able to learn how to tune in to our children. The specific techniques that are central to Connected Parenting take practice to master but they are invaluable. These techniques are like the bridge to our children that allows us to walk together on the shared journey of parent and child.

Brilliant, just brilliant!

Finally a book that helps diminish the negative behaviors that exhaust parents and children AND helps parents and children develop strong bonds.

I have found that books either deal with the child's behavior at the risk of breaking the bond between the parent and child OR only deals with strengthening bonds. Finally, a book that does both!

The best parenting book I've ever read!

I purchased this book to help me as a teacher to communicate with and help challenging students. I found that the loving bonds that form when you use this method with a child can also be formed when you use this technique with others as well. My elderly mother was going through a difficult time and was frustrated and unhappy, I tried the mirroring techniques with her and our relationship which had been strained began to improve immediately. She knew that I listened and truly heard her and we were able to move forward to the best relationship we have had in many years. Thank you Jennifer, I recommend Connected Parenting to the parents of all of my students and all of my friends and family.

I have parented four children over twenty-six years and have lived through many parenting trends. In Connected Parenting, I feel I have now found a guide to parenting that is both effective and timeless. There is nothing trendy about this book. It takes us back to the grass roots ingredients necessary to communicate with our children so that we can be effective parents. Connected Parenting provides us with tools to be both loving and guiding at the same time. Children who feel respected, loved and understood will listen to what we have to say. This book is a must for parents who want to improve the quality of their parenting and their lives in general.

-Marsha Jacobson, Author of "Boom... Boom... Boom...: A Story to Raise Your Child's Emotional Intelligence."

Jennifer Kolari writes as she speaks - in empathic, clear and direct terms, that instill such confidence in both parents and children. Her strategies and advice provide us all with the words and skills we need to develop the family relationships we've always wanted. This is a beautiful way of parenting any child!

Having been a client of Jennifer's for over a year and half now, this book is the perfect companion to the insightful, humorous, and caring sessions we've experienced. And if you're new to the model of "Connected Parenting" and "Mirroring," this book has it all to help you better understand your child's behavior -- Connected Parenting helps you cut through the noise, both literally and figuratively, to get to the heart of the issue in order to heal and strengthen the precious parent-child bond that so often gets damaged during times of transition or stress. Everyone, be they a parent, grandparent, caregiver or educator, will benefit from reading this book.

Jennifer Kolari's approach to parenting was a god sent to our family as we helped our daughter through some rough times at school. The Connected Parenting model does just that...it connects you to your child and opens up communication in a honest, open and non-confrontational way. Unlike so many other parenting models, this one really works. A must-read for every parent.

Jennifer Kolari's book will teach you how to connect with your child on a totally new level. The stories that she shares are poignant and funny and will teach you techniques that will help you mitigate any situation with children of all ages. Parenting is a wonderful journey, you'll want to pack this for the ride.

This is the only parenting book you will ever need. Kolari's methods are loving and effective -- and can turn around a difficult child in less than a month. This book is funny and warm, smart and insightful--I read it in one sitting.

Without question, a groundbreaking system for raising confident, strong, balanced, and resilient children. They should hand this one out in the delivery room.