A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
*Winner of the Child Psychology Award for Literary Excellence*
“A comprehensive roadmap for parents who want to raise securely attached, emotionally healthy children. A parenting must-read.” —Alyssa Blask Campbell, M.Ed., author of Tiny Humans, Big Emotions
“Eli Harwood teaches the essentials of attachment, which can help parents 'show up' in ways that enable our children to become securely attached to us.” —Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., New York Times bestselling co-author of The Whole-Brain Child
Learn how to create a lifetime of connection, trust, and open communication with your children through connection-focused parenting. Though there have been countless studies on how attachment styles affect our romantic relationships,
Raising Securely Attached Kids is the first book to reframe the subject for caregivers and children.
Licensed therapist and highly sought-after attachment research expert Eli Harwood illuminates the science that explores our innate human need to bond with other humans, and helps us harness it as the only parenting approach proven to have a lasting impact. Her loyal following—fast approaching the millions—connects to Eli’s accessible approach that helps everyone form secure and close relationships with their kids, which helps them develop resilience, confidence, and form close relationships in the future.
“Eli Harwood brings infectious-fun energy, vulnerability, and fresh perspectives without shaming or blaming. Not only is Raising Securely Attached Kids
a practical and actionable guide, it’s grounded in science and entertaining to read.” —Hilary Swank, actress, storyteller, mom of twinsHopeful and inspiring, this essential evidence-based guide shows parents, educators, and anyone with children in their lives that they are not alone in the questions and concerns they may have about raising confident, capable, and caring kids.
Covering every parenting era from newborns to adults,
Raising Securely Attached Kids teaches simple, real-life strategies that will help you:
- Move past old patterns from your childhood to become the parent or caregiver you yearn to be—no matter what you went through growing up
- Resolve past attachment traumas so you can offer a calm, connected, and secure base
- Create a secure attachment relationship with your kids by choosing connection over control
- Build and reinforce a strong foundation of trust with scripts and practical tools
- Understand that it’s never too late to create a stronger bond with your children
Create a lifetime of connection with your children.
Therapist and wildly popular attachment research expert Eli Harwood (a.k.a. Attachment Nerd) illuminates attachment theory as foundational to the only parenting approach proven to have a lasting impact.
How do you raise kids who are confident, capable, and caring?
The first ingredient is a secure and close relationship—key to helping them self-regulate and thrive later in life. When children feel seen, heard, and supported, all other parenting tips and tricks start to work.
Groundbreaking author Eli Harwood makes attachment theory (the science that explores the innate human need to bond with other humans) accessible and actionable in how it can help our children learn and grow into compassionate, warm adults.
For anyone looking to build a better life for their kids, no matter what you went through growing up yourself, these simple, real-life strategies will help you:
· Help you create a secure attachment relationship with your kids by choosing connection over control
· Prompt reflection on attachment patterns you developed in childhood and why you respond in certain ways during emotional moments with your children
· Help you resolve past attachment traumas so you can gain effective skills to offer calm, connected, and secure base
· Provide scripts and practical tools to build and reinforce a strong foundation of trust
· Encourage you to release the reins of influence as their independence grows
Hopeful and inspiring, this essential evidence-based guide will show parents across different ages and stages everywhere that they are not alone in the questions and concerns they may have about their children's development. Though there have been countless studies on how attachment styles affect our romantic relationships, Raising Securely Attached Kids reframes the subject for cultivating a strong relationship between parent and child to bring transformative change to your relationships of all stripes.