Parenting Book Series

Let’s get in the kitchen together! This cookbook for parents of kids 8+ transforms time in the kitchen into meaningful family connection—designed to spark curiosity, encourage healthy habits, and turn up the joy.

Salt Fat Acid Heat meets How to Talk So Kids Will Listen in this parent-child cookbook that teaches culinary skills while nurturing emotional intelligence, patience, and connection. Co-written by family therapist Eli Harwood and her ten-year-old son, Slate, this cookbook features 75 approachable recipes developed by Slate.  

Many parents want to get their kids inspired in the kitchen to try new foods, but they struggle with how to start. This cookbook provides the perfect solution: Inviting kids into the kitchen with 75 recipes written by a kid for kids, organized by time of day and marked for different skill levels. Plus plenty of confidence-building extras like:
Pairing Conversations: helps parents and kids have discussion while they cook Fascinating Food Facts: historical and scientific facts about ingredients Turn Up The Fun: fun suggestions throughout help parents and kids experience joy in the cooking process (such as, cook in costumes, or listen to music, or dance while you wait for noodles to cook, etc.)
Cooking Together not only inspires better eating habits, but provides a hands-on activity that builds important life skills and strengthens parent-child bonds through shared experiences. This isn’t just a cookbook; it’s a guide to creating lifelong memories, deeper connection, life skills, resilience, and a stronger family bond.

Create more joy, trust, and meaningful conversation with this shared mother-son journal for boys ages 8 and up, from bestselling author and family therapist Eli Harwood, aka Attachment Nerd.

Busy schedules can make it difficult to slow down and truly connect. This journal for boys and moms offers a playful, low-pressure way for mothers and sons to understand each other, celebrate what makes them unique, and build a closer lifelong bond.

This guided mother-son journal includes 100+ thoughtful prompts designed to help you:
Bring out your playful, fun-loving, and silly sides
Share what fills you with happiness and delight
Discover common interests and celebrate your differences
Swap stories and start lively, meaningful conversations
Build self-confidence, deepen trust, and create lasting memories

Make the experience your own: Mom and son can write separately and pass the journal back and forth or sit down and complete it together. Prompts can be answered in any order and at any pace—whether you write every day, once a week, or whenever you feel inspired.

Grounded in attachment research and written in Eli’s warm, reassuring voice, this parent-child journal helps sons feel seen, understood, and supported while giving moms an approachable way to strengthen connection.

A thoughtful Mother’s Day gift, gift for preteen boys, holiday gift, or keepsake for moms and sons, this interactive guided journal reminds families that it’s never too late to grow closer. Give this mother-son journal to someone you love and begin a shared tradition of laughter, discovery, and connection.

An Indispensable Tool for Becoming the Emotionally Mature Parent You Aspire to Be

Are you determined to parent differently than you were raised? Ready to break cycles, heal old wounds, and give your children the emotionally close relationship you always wanted? This is your roadmap.

Why This Book?
Written by USA Today bestselling author & family therapist Eli Harwood
Practical, no-nonsense guidance for parents and parents-to-be
Alphabetically organized for quick, targeted help—flip to the growth area you need, when you need it

Inside, You’ll Discover How to Heal From:
Complicated emotional states like anger, anxiety, body image struggles, and jealousy
Insecure habits such as people-pleasing, toxic comparison, blaming, and denial
The lingering effects of insecurity or trauma from your own childhood

What You’ll Gain:
Tools to heal yourself—so your children don’t have to carry your pain
Strategies to build a secure, emotionally close bond with your kids
Confidence to become the emotionally mature and reliable parent you wish you’d had

This compassionate reference guide will help you navigate the messy emotional moments of parenthood so that you can give your kids the invaluable gift of an emotionally secure parent. Start your healing journey today—for them, and for you.

An Indispensable Tool for Becoming the Emotionally Mature Parent You Aspire to Be

Are you determined to parent differently than you were raised? Ready to break cycles, heal old wounds, and give your children the emotionally close relationship you always wanted? This is your roadmap.

Why This Book?
· Written by USA Today bestselling author & family therapist Eli Harwood
· Practical, no-nonsense guidance for parents and parents-to-be
· Alphabetically organized for quick, targeted help—flip to the growth area you need, when you need it

Inside, You’ll Discover How to Heal From:
· Complicated emotional states like anger, anxiety, body image struggles, and jealousy
· Insecure habits such as people-pleasing, toxic comparison, blaming, and denial
· The lingering effects of insecurity or trauma from your own childhood

What You’ll Gain:
· Tools to heal yourself—so your children don’t have to carry your pain
· Strategies to build a secure, emotionally close bond with your kids
· Confidence to become the emotionally mature and reliable parent you wish you’d had

This compassionate reference guide will help you navigate the messy emotional moments of parenthood so that you can give your kids the invaluable gift of an emotionally secure parent. Start your healing journey today—for them, and for you.

From licensed therapist and bestselling author Eli Harwood comes a transformative shared mother-daughter journal perfect for creating a lifetime of joy and close connection!

What fills you with delight about your child? Do you get a chance to tell them enough? For busy parents, it’s easy to lose sight of what matters. But taking just ten minutes at the end of the week to reflect and connect can work wonders.

This guided mother-daughter journal—meant for children ages 8 and up and their parents—inspires connection and offers a fun and self-directed way for both parent and child to be more playful, and delve deeper into what makes each other tick. Better communication has never been more fun, too!

Inside, you’ll find 100+ meaningful prompts to:
boost your playful, fun-loving, & silly sides
share what inspires delight
explore common & unique interests
swap stories & have lively conversations, all in a safe space
grow self-confidence, create trust & memories together
two ribbon markers: one for mom and one for daughter

As a therapist, author Eli Harwood (aka Attachment Nerd) knows kids need parents to truly see them, feel their pain, and help them not to feel alone. Built on a strong foundation of attachment research, Uniquely Us is the only mother-daughter journal on the market designed to foster a secure attachment relationship between mom and daughter.

Eli’s reassuring voice reminds us that it’s never too late to transform the way you and your daughter connect.

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER | Named Forbes’ 50 Most Influential Books
Winner of the Child Psychology Award for Literary Excellence


“A comprehensive roadmap for parents who want to raise securely attached, emotionally healthy children. A parenting must-read.” —Alyssa Blask Campbell, M.Ed., author of Tiny Humans, Big Emotions


Build a lifelong foundation of connection, trust, confidence, and resilience with an evidence-based approach to secure attachment.


Raising Securely Attached Kids is a practical parenting book that translates attachment science into accessible strategies for raising emotionally healthy children. Licensed therapist and attachment expert Eli Harwood shows parents and caregivers how connection-focused parenting can strengthen relationships, encourage open communication, and help children develop empathy, confidence, resilience, and the ability to form healthy relationships.

Covering every stage from newborns through adulthood, this compassionate guide helps you:BREAK UNHEALTHY CYCLES: Recognize patterns from your own childhood and choose a more connected way of parenting.BECOME A SECURE BASE: Work through attachment wounds so you can respond with greater calm, consistency, and emotional awareness.CHOOSE CONNECTION OVER CONTROL: Build a secure attachment relationship while maintaining clear, healthy boundaries.STRENGTHEN TRUST: Use practical tools and ready-to-use scripts to navigate everyday parenting challenges.SUPPORT EMOTIONAL HEALTH: Help children develop confidence, empathy, resilience, and strong relationship skills.REPAIR AND RECONNECT: Learn why mistakes do not define your relationship—and why it is never too late to create a stronger bond.

Hopeful, relatable, and grounded in attachment research, Raising Securely Attached Kids offers guidance without shame or blame. It is an essential resource for parents, caregivers, educators, and anyone who wants to nurture confident, capable, and caring kids.


Create the secure, lasting connection your child can carry into every stage of life.


“Eli Harwood teaches the essentials of attachment, which can help parents ‘show up’ in ways that enable our children to become securely attached to us.” —Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., New York Times bestselling co-author of The Whole-Brain Child


“Eli Harwood brings infectious-fun energy, vulnerability, and fresh perspectives without shaming or blaming. Not only is Raising Securely Attached Kids a practical and actionable guide, it’s grounded in science and entertaining to read.” —Hilary Swank, actress, storyteller, mom of twins

“A comprehensive road map for parents who want to raise securely attached, emotionally healthy children. A parenting must-read.” —Alyssa Blask Campbell, M.Ed., author of Tiny Humans, Big Emotions
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Learn how to create a lifetime of connection, trust, and open communication with your children through connection-focused parenting.

Though there have been countless studies on how attachment styles affect our romantic relationships, Raising Securely Attached Kids is the first book to reframe the subject for caregivers and children, and brings transformative change to your relationships of all stripes. 

Therapist and wildly popular attachment research expert Eli Harwood (@attachmentnerd) illuminates the science that explores our innate human need to bond with other humans, and helps us harness it as the only parenting approach proven to have a lasting impact. Her loyal following—fast approaching the millions—connects to Eli’s accessible approach that helps everyone form secure and close relationships with their kids, which helps them develop resilience, confidence, and form close relationships in the future.

Hopeful and inspiring, this essential evidence-based guide shows parents, educators, and anyone with children in their lives that they are not alone in the questions and concerns they may have about raising confident, capable, and caring kids.

Covering every parenting era from newborns to adults, Raising Securely Attached Kids’ simple, real-life strategies will help you:


·        Move past old patterns from your childhood to become the parent or caregiver you yearn to be—no matter what you went through growing up
·        Resolve past attachment traumas so you can offer a calm, connected, and secure base
·        Create a secure attachment relationship with your kids by choosing connection over control
·        Build and reinforce a strong foundation of trust with scripts and practical tools
·        Understand that it’s never too late to create a stronger bond with your children


*This program includes a downloadable PDF which contains the table of influence approaches as well as the formula list of a child’s internal state vs. external choices.