This book should be required reading for all parents. Connection with our children is so important, and so difficult. This book gave very practical advice for how to connect with our children in many different ways, ages, and stages. I plan on giving this book to all of my mom friends!

Rising children is hard, but rising adopted children is even harder.
The advices Dr. Karyn Purvis gives are practical and useful for all parents and persons that work with children.

The Connected Parent is a must-read for any foster and/or adoptive parent, teacher, church childcare worker, as well as for parents who’s children have gone through a trauma. I love how it combines the theory/research side of connecting with your child and the life experiences of an adoptive mother. The Connected Parent offers the practical step by step lists you are looking for when you feel overwhelmed and unsure of how to connect. I loved how each chapter included real-life stories from Lisa Qualls with the gentle wisdom and research of Dr. Karyn Purvis. It ended with a much needed practical guide and next steps. I found myself highlighting the scripts and using them immediately. This is a timely book and I’m so grateful for the wisdom, honesty, and authenticity. It gives hope to parents and caregivers and I’m thankful for the knowledge and tips I’ve learned!

Karen Purvis’ work has made a significant impact on our family first, through her book The Connected Child, and then, through trainings offered through Empowered to Connect and her videos on YouTube. We went from a struggling family with a child from a hard place to a family that is healing and thriving.

The Connected Parent gives us the ability to revisit Dr. Purvis’ work through the lens of a parent who has been in our shoes. Not only are we able to understand where our child is coming from, but we have tools to help them heal and thrive.

I highly recommend this book for EVERYONE who works with children or simply is in a child’s life. This is information useful for all raising or molding children no matter the start in life they have experienced. I hope more educators will find TBRI information and trainings and work it into their classrooms/schools. TBRI is needed in schools, too.

This book was not what I expected when I first picked it up. I am not parenting kids from hard places but still enjoyed learning. I found it well written and formatted with both personal experience and professional advice as well as a summary at the end of each chapter and some application ideas. This is a follow up to the connected child.

Dr. Karyn Purvis. If you know, you know. This woman lived her life in a way that changed the world. The compassion, moxie and undeniable brilliance she carried is enough to make me buy any resource with her name on it. There is no book referenced in our home or given away more frequently than The Connected Child. Pages are highlighted, bindings are broken and sticky notes are strategically stuck throughout. Our kids know when to address Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 and they love above all else asking us if we need a redo. There are few people who have shaped my life or my work as a practitioner as much as Dr. Karyn Purvis.

When my parents were no longer able to parent me, when as a young child my grandparents became my primary caregivers overnight, my world was turned upside down. I cried and cried and cried. If everyone around me had understood the science behind my heartache, they would have cried too. When the crying eventually stopped it was assumed that I had experienced healing. The assumption was wrong. It was many years later, after much pain and suffering that I found my way into a therapist's office who understood attachment and the harm that I needed to overcome. I will be forever grateful.

Today I use what Dr. Purvis has taught me to help other families like mine, I do that 10,000 miles away from where home used to be. My grandma regularly tells me how much she wished this information were available when I was a little girl, how much she wishes she could go back and do it differently. Lisa Qualls says the same thing in these pages. Thanks to Dr. Purvis and to Lisa Qualls, the rest of us who parent children who have experienced deep hurts don't have to wish, the information is here and easily accessible.

I held this book for a couple of months before I could bring myself to read it. It's like the love letter from a grandparent you miss deeply. You want to know what they've said, but you are also not ready to live in a world where you've read their final address.

Dr. Purvis did what she does best, she leads us to a place where science intersects with the Word of God in a way that brings transformation where we need it the most. Lisa Qualls gave the world a gift. She took her friendship with Dr. Purvis and pulled back the cover and allowed us all to experience, up close and personal, what being mentored by Dr. Purvis means. Lisa gives practical real-life experiences with Trust Based Relational Intervention in a way that will help any parent, caregiver or trusted adult better use the tools Dr. Purvis taught us.

I love this book because it once again gave Karyn's voice to the world. The book is practical, well structured, organized and the key takeaways at the end of each chapter are helpful. We know that relationship based traumas require relationship based healing and Lisa's examples and experiences offer a much needed perspective to help us provide just that.

This book is a must read for anyone who has adopted or fostered, it is a must read for anyone who may ever in their entire life encounter a child who has experienced trauma. You will never regret learning what Dr. Purvis has to teach. You may only regret how long it took you to find your way to her.

The publisher made this book available via netgalley. These thoughts and opinions are my honest review.

I truly enjoyed this book.
It gave me more insight on children and ways to handle them when they aren't at their best.

I already do a few things they talked about in the book-- but I enjoyed seeing them in the book as ways to promote positive behaviors.

I will be using some of these sayings/ideas and using them on my children and can't wait to see how it helps us all.

I highly recommend this book. Informative, helpful, inspiring/positive take on parenting and dealing with children.

4 stars from me.

*Recv'd a copy via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review*

This provided a very interesting perspective. Written from two sides of the same coin made it easier to relate to than simply hearing from a therapist (who we all know; gets to go home at night)

I read this book not as an adoptive parent, but as a teacher and parent who is interested in child development and attachment. This was an interesting book from that perspective, and one that I think would be very useful to adoptive parents.

Such a good read to encourage parents to be truly connected with ones children. I highly recommend it!!

I have read a lot of books on attachment and adoption (including The Connected Child) and I will admit I was a bit disappointed in this book. It was a quick read, which was nice, but I didn't find it offered any really new information or strategies. I did like the scripts and a lot of the strategies reminded me of Love and Logic but there wasn't anything that I felt made this book worth it. Honestly, I thought this book would be more about the connection for the parent rather than just another book about the child connecting to the parent. As an adoptive parent in the middle of the process (met my daughter but not home yet) I've been struggling to feel connected to her and I thought this book would have more about connecting as a parent since there are so many child to parent attachment books out there. I'm sure the tips will help someone out there but it wasn't for me when I've read a ton of books that have basically the same information.