The connected family handbook – Lou Harvey-Zahra

The connected family handbook by Lou Harvey-Zahra is a unique book offering practical advice and inspiring activities to encourage positive qualities in children and create a more connected family.

How can simple activities help us connect more fully with our children and live more happily together? What types of games will encourage children to be kind to others? How can crafting and outdoor play build respect for the natural world? The connected family handbook offers empowering advice and practical activities to answer these questions and many more.

This is an inspiring book for carers of children, from toddlers to ten year olds. Each of the ten chapters tackles an important theme for families – home, kindness, mealtimes, move, warmth, teamwork, adventure, nature, wonder and celebration – and suggests ways to nurture these qualities in children.

Engage with NATURE by crafting toys from sticks, nurture WONDER by sharing a story about toadstools and fairy folk, encourage KINDNESS by creating a toy medical kit and make MEALTIMES fun with frozen fruit pizza.

All of the author’s ideas and advice come from a background of holistic child development, and celebrate values including eco-friendly living, connected family life, healthy and fun food choices and the importance of imaginative play.

Every chapter is illustrated with beautiful photographs and includes easy crafts and fun recipes to create with children, stories and verses to share, as well as tips on creative discipline, positive play and establishing family rhythms and routines.

The connected family handbook is published by BookSource / Floris Books.

Contents:

1 paperback book

About Lou Harvey-Zahra

Lou Harvey-Zahra grew up and did her teacher training in England. She now lives in Melbourne, Australia, where she has taught in a number of different kindergarten, primary, special needs and Steiner-Waldorf school settings.

She also leads playgroups and runs conscious parenting and creative discipline workshops.

Lou Harvey-Zahra is the author of the parenting books happy child, happy home: conscious parenting, the connected family handbook and creative discipline, connected family. She is the retelling author of the children’s book through the rainbow: a Waldorf birthday story for children.