Pam Leo is the author of Connection Parenting, which teaches families how to build resiliency through connection. Author: Amanda Hill (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 10:30 AM EST March 12, 2021 Updated: 1:38 PM EST March 12, 2021
PORTLAND, Maine Children may seem pretty resilient, but there are ways in which this pandemic has taken tolls on them that parents may not see. Pam Leo has been working with families for 20 years, and has written a book called Connection Parenting, which talks about creating a strong emotional bond with children, one-on-one. The same thing we need to do all the time anyway is to form that strong connection, because that’s children’s anchor in the world. That s what they have to come to always when things get scary, Leo explains. So the stronger the connection is, the more resilient they can be. When they feel like they’re out there with no anchor, everything that’s scary is even scarier.