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Welcome to API Reads!

Welcome to API Reads!

The API Reads program is a way for you to read books that help you further your connection with your child and family. It is an educational resource but also a great way to discuss with others the parenting books you're already reading or had on your list. Its way more fun to read a book with a community than it is to read alone. Why not enjoy a discussion to see what points in the book really resonated with you, what portions you felt you wanted to get more information on, and what portions you felt were just not going to work in your family so that you can find suggestions on how it could. The API Reads program is a valuable resource to add to your attachment parenting toolkit. Goodreads is the online discussion forum we use for keeping you informed of the latest books that are being read by API and the opportunity to converse with others on the books you are reading.

Before you purchase your book, please click on the title of the book, and then make your purchases through Amazon so that API can earn a 4% commission off of your sell. Happy reading everyone!

March/April/May 2014 Read

Our March/April/May online book discussion will be Giving the Love That Heals: A Guide for Parents by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. To join the discussion, please click here to be taken to the GoodReads website. Our reading timeline will be as follows:

March 1-8: Chapters 1 & 2

March 8-15: Chapters 3 & 4

March 15-22: Chapters 5

March 22-29: Chapters 6

March 29-Apr 5: Chapters 7

November/December 2013

From this book you learn about the Emotion Coaching through your child's developmental stages of childhood through adolescence. The effects of Emotion Coaching on your children and family all the way through divorce, separation, and the importance of fathers. This is a truly valuable book to read and one in which you will gain even more insight when you participate in the discussion online.

Book description from Amazon.com

Intelligence That Comes from the Heart

September/October 2013

Book description from Amazon.com

When Harville Hendrix writes about relationships, he discusses them not just as an educator and a therapist, but as a man who has himself been through a failed marriage. Hendrix felt the sting of his divorce intensely because he believed it signaled not only his failure as a husband but also his failure as a couples counselor. Investigating why his marriage dissolved led him to start looking into the psychology of love. Marriage, he ultimately discovered, is the "practice of becoming passionate friends."

July/August 2013

Nurturing the Soul of Your Family touches upon API's Eighth Parenting Principle: Personal and Family Balance. What I loved about this book is that it really went to the heart of things in a very friendly manner that was gentle and thought-provoking. She had you do little meditations at the beginning to help frame your mind for the discussion and gave you exercises at the end to put into practice what you learned. This is one of the few family balance books out there that seemed to fit in with the attachment parenting lifestyle we so value.