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Fireside Reads

Christmas break is almost here! As the nights are longer and the days are a bit slower, you may find yourself with just enough margin to curl up with a good book by the fire over the next few weeks. Here are a few recommendations for you.

Readers of Dr. Karyn Purvis’ The Connected Child will enjoy The Connected Parent. While Dr. Purvis has passed her work and words live on through the The Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development and the research that continues. The Connected Parent contains work that Dr. Purvis was writing prior to her death along with her co-author, Lisa Qualls, mother to biological, adopted, and fostered children. While The Connected Child formed the framework and introduction to Trust-Based Relational Intervention, The Connected Parent provides real life strategies for building attachment with your children.

All You Can Ever Know is a memoir by adult-adoptee, Nicole Chung. If as an adoptive parent, you find yourself looking for the stories, advice, or perspective of adult adoptees, All You Care Ever Know is for you. Nicole shares how the story she was told as a child by her mother of her birth family fell apart upon closer inspection as an adult. She takes the reader on her own personal journey to find the truth regarding her brith family and her subsequent adoption into a white family in Oregon.

In The Out-of-Sync Child, Carol Stock Kranowitz delivered both the human and neurological aspects of sensory integration challenges. In this companion, she presents more than one hundred playful activities specially designed for kids with SPD. The holidays can be incredibly difficult for many of our children. Family gatherings, bright lights, different foods, changes in routine, and so much more can overwhelm all of us, but for our children with sensory integration challenges, these changes present for more difficulties for some of our children. Whether your child faces challenges with touch, balance, movement, body position, vision, hearing, smell, and taste, motor planning, or other sensory problems, this book presents lively and engaging ways to bring fun and play to your day. This is a great resource to have on hand when your day starts to go a bit sideways, and you want an easy activity to bring everyone in the family back on track.