• The Connected Parent

  • Real-Life Strategies for Building Trust and Attachment
  • By: Lisa Qualls, Karyn Purvis PhD
  • Narrated by: Lisa Qualls
  • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (269 ratings)

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The Connected Parent

By: Lisa Qualls, Karyn Purvis PhD
Narrated by: Lisa Qualls
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There is hope for every child, every parent, and every family...

Parenting under the best of circumstances can be difficult. And raising children who have come to your home from “hard places,” who have their own set of unique needs, brings even more challenges. You may have discovered that the techniques that worked with your birth children are not working with your adopted or foster child.

Renowned child-development expert Dr. Karyn Purvis gives you practical advice and powerful tools you can use to encourage secure attachment in your family. You will benefit from Karyn’s decades of clinical research and real-world experience. Coauthor Lisa Qualls demonstrates how you can successfully implement these strategies in your home, just as she did in hers.

You will learn how to simplify your approach using scripts, nurture your child, combat chronic fear, teach respect, and develop other valuable tools to facilitate a healing connection with your child.

The Connected Parent will help you lovingly guide your children and bring renewed hope and restoration to your family.

©2020 Lisa C. Qualls and Karen Purvis (P)2020 Harvest House Publishers

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Such an asset to any foster parent

Dr. Karyn Purvis has done such amazing work for the foster care community. Her TBRI principles are invaluable to anyone working with or caring for foster children. This book makes those principles easily accessible and brings comfort to parents struggling to raise children from trauma. Highly recommend it to any teachers, parents or cps/casa workers involved with foster care.

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Wonderful book!

This book was such an encouragement! Filled with simple strategies to help raise kids from hard places. If you need some encouragement raise kids, this is the book for you!

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If you foster/adopt, this is a MUST READ!

As a mom with two adopted children and two foster children, this book was so life-giving. Such good encouragement and reminders! It really helps to slow down, have patience, and remember that they are doing the best that they know how to do. It’s a process and this book is super helpful for the journey!

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A Must Read for Foster and Adoptive Parents

This is a book I wish I would have had when my daughters were younger. It is also a book I wish my parents would have had in the years after they adopted me. Dr. Purvis and Lisa Qualls are a gifted team and their balance of brain science with practical advice makes this a valuable resource to refer to over and over again.

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Inspiring and Real

Lisa Qualls is vulnerable and real and conveys realistic parenting tools in this book.
Excellent narration in addition to Excellent writing, I couldn't stop listening

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A Must Read!!

Fabulous read/listen. I enjoyed this book even more than The Connected Child!! If someone was going to choose one or the other, I'd definitely recommend this one as the go-to but I'm happy I completed both. A must have for anyone who is involved in foster/adopt. My other two favorite books that I recommend you to complete are The Whole Brain Child and No Drama Discipline. These three/four books go wonderful together for a well rounded education.

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Lots of Wisdom

This book contains lots of wisdom for raising children from difficult circumstances. this wisdom can be applied to normal children as well as yourself, which is a bonus.

The narrator did a great job bringing this book to life.

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Practical, informative, EXTREMELY helpful

I absolutely loved this book. I loved how practical it felt and hearing real stories from Lisa Qualls. Her vulnerability in sharing her life compounded with Dr Purvis’ expertise have created something so wonderful. I highly recommend this to any adoptive parent.

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Transforming

This was such a great book for helping kids from hard places and bonding. There are no guilt trips, just honest supportive tips.

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Useful and informative

This is one of the most helpful parenting books for adoptive families. I highly recommend.

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