Raising Securely Attached Kids: Using Connection-Focused Parenting to Create Confidence, Empathy, and Resilience (Parenting Book Series)

Raising Securely Attached Kids offers a guide to connection-focused parenting, teaching parents how to raise emotionally healthy children with secure attachments. Licensed therapist Eli Harwood explores the science of human bonding and how attachment styles shape development, presenting connection-focused parenting as an evidence-based approach with lasting impact. The book covers parenting from infancy through adulthood and provides practical strategies including: moving past childhood patterns to become the parent you want to be, resolving past attachment traumas to offer a secure base, creating secure attachment through connection rather than control, building trust with scripts and tools, and strengthening bonds with children at any stage. Harwood addresses common parental concerns about raising confident, capable, and caring children. The book emphasizes that secure attachment helps children develop resilience, confidence, and the ability to form close relationships in the future. It is grounded in attachment research and designed to be accessible and actionable for parents, educators, and caregivers.