Midwest Book Review on Pilates for Parenting

Pilates for Parenting by Holli Kenley

Synopsis: “Pilates For Parenting: Stretch Yourself & Strengthen Your Family” by Holli Kenley is a personalized workout regime for parents, guardians, those contemplating parenthood and anyone else who is open to assessing their parenting attitudes and adjusting their approaches as they strive to build stronger parent-child relationships.

When it comes to implementing healthy roles and tackling heavy responsibilities of being a parent, Pilates For Parenting targets five strategic areas. The goals of the Warm Up, 3 Workouts and Cool Down include: Increasing awareness regarding the importance of parenting; Strengthening the skill of being present for children: Fortifying the skill of doing what is best for children; Honing the skill of meeting children’s needs; Increasing accountability as parents become purposeful in their parenting.

Critique: Unique, informatively instructive, and thoroughly ‘user friendly’ in tone, commentary, organization and presentation, “Pilates For Parenting: Stretch Yourself & Strengthen Your Family” will prove to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to family and community library Parenting instructional reference collections. It should be noted for personal reading lists that “Pilates For Parenting” is also available in a paperback edition (9781615994878, $17.95) and in a digital book format (Kindle, $5.95).

Adopting a Child With a Trauma and Attachment Disruption History

978-1-61599-130-3
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UPC: 978-1-61599-130-3
Brand: Loving Healing Press

"If you have the love in your heart and the courage to adopt a child from a traumatized background, then you must have this book."
-- Robert Rich, PhD, anxietyanddepression-help.com

This booklet is a fact-filled resource for adoptive parents who have a child with trauma and attachment disruption experiences. Fraser provides tips and strategies that can be considered before placement as well as days, weeks, and months after your child joins your family. It addresses the day-to-day issues that new parents often get stuck on and provides info on the Four S's parenting plan that she shares with families (safety, structure, supervision and support).

Readers will:

  • Understand how kids with trauma and attachment disruptions first require emotional safety
  • Learn how providing structure will help your child connect with your family
  • Discover the importance of providing engaging supervision
  • Affirm that adoptive parents need support and learn how to help
Therapists' Acclaim for Adopting a Child with Trauma...


"The subtitle of this little book is apt: it is a practical guide. If you are considering adopting, read it first. It may well put you off, but that's better than taking in an already troubled child, only to pass the load on to someone else, causing another experience of rejection and loss for the child."
--Robert Rich, PhD. anxietyanddepression-help.com

"Anyone adopting a child with a history of trauma will find this in work a wealth of practical advice. Its very shortness is a virtue when parenting is already so demanding. Effective parenting, including adoptive parenting, comes out of knowledge and understanding was well as love. Theresa Fraser cuts to the chase with just what you need to know to be prepared to meet the challenges of adopting a traumatized child."
-- Marian K. Volkman, editor of Children and Traumatic Incident Reduction

Learn more at www.theresafraser.com

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