Lara Needle

Good news 🤩

The eBook Jay Climbs the Family Mountain will be available for FREE for 5 days starting Tuesday, the 24th, at 8AM GMT (12:00 AM PST) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XKCPG9

Make sure to get your free copy and join Jay in her adventure. A story of adoption and finding your meant-to-be family ☺️

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Finally added some freebies on the website :D
https://laraneedle.online/freebies/

Although I am still working on the website itself, it should be mostly functional.
The freebies page is going to be updated as often as possible when I get some time to make some educational and/or fun printables, so please enjoy :)

Freebies – Lara Needle These are here for you for personal use. Please respect the copyright. Dotted Lines And ShapesDownload Dotted AlphabetDownload

Also applicable to many other relationships in your life 😊

For free resources on parenting, staying calm, building coping skills, setting boundaries and more, check out the link in my bio.

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(As someone who's raised 3 into adulthood and couldn't be closer to them), please don't buy into all those guilt-inducing "you'd better savor every moment" messages out there!

Make it make sense. 🥴

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Hurry up and catch the promotion 😊 4 days left at only $0.99 for Kindle

An adoption story ☺️

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Jay climbs the Family Mountain

Whenever I see or hear about a child having their privileges taken away, forced isolation from peers, or losing the things they NEED to help their behavior be better (like recess or connection), a little piece of my heart sinks.

The rest is set on fire with a passion for advocating for this ONE thing: punishment and consequences do NOT help children learn. They can be deterrents, but NOT in the ways we think!

Punishment and consequences deter kids from:

➡ Coming to us for help (because it's not safe).
➡ Trusting our advice (because they view us as adversarial/self-serving).
➡ Learning new behaviors (because they activate the stress response - but do not engage the higher thinking part of the brain).

It's a cycle that makes behavior spiral and our relationships worse.



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If you haven't signed up for my Academy yet - now is the perfect time to learn alternatives to punishment and consequences. Videos have been updated and edited to make it easier for you to make real changes in your home.

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As a family, feelings should be spoken about openly and how they impact you. You can say, "I'm really tired at the moment so I'm finding it harder to be calm". Talk about how your body feels and what you can do to help you remain calm. Ask your child what they would do. When your child is getting frustrated link their body with the emotion, such as "your muscles look really tight, are your feeling frustrated"? You can talk about what you do when you are frustrated and practice together, breathing exercises are a great way to do this (look at previous blogs on fun relaxations).

More information on my blog:

https://www.thetherapistparent.com/post/creating-a-self-regulated-family

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Excited to share my first product on Gumroad 🤩

https://laraneedle.gumroad.com/l/shapes-flash-cards

Kids Flashcards - shapes Set of basic shapes. Fun flashcards for preschoolers.The PDF contains all the shapes shown in the image:circlerhombrectangleovaloctagontrianglehexagonsquarepentagonEach of them is in its separate page.

An adoption story and the perfect children's book to present adoption for children that were not adopted as babies but were in foster care for a while.

Free EBook Promotion 🤩
From Tuesday, August 24, 2021, 12:00 AM PDT till Thursday, August 26, 2021, 11:59 PM PDT

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Both eBook and Paperback now available 🤩

The Story

Jay's stork delivers her to the wrong door. She is taken care of by a nice lady, but the time comes for her to go on the journey to find her true mom and dad.
The Family Mountain is renowned for being the place for families to come together, so that is where she heads to.
Although it's a scary road, she courageously pulls through so that she gets to meet her parents.
And since all is well that ends well, her parents are waiting for her there and they begin their beautiful lives together.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B097X7MB8W/

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What do you think of the cover?

Phase 2 of the cover for "Jay climbs the Family Mountain" :D

Loving the colors!

I'm working on the writing now and will come back with the final version soon.

Again, thank you, Surya Gunawan, for the amazing illustrations that bring my children's book to life!

What do you think of the cover? The colored version will come soon. This is the first glimpse I had of what was going to be my book cover. I loved it!

Thanks, Surya Gunawan, for the amazing illustrations that bring my children's book to life!

Stay tuned for more teasers from "Jay climbs the Family Mountain".

Children are brought to a family in many ways. Adoption is one of the ways. And there are many variants of that, too. In every case, there is a journey involved.

This is what I had in mind when writing the children's book "Jay climbs the Family Mountain".

I hope to have, by the end of the month, a release date settled. Will keep posting updates as the details are decided.

Photo by Sarah Medina on Unsplash

I promised some colored teasers, so here is one :D

See that pinkish haired cutie on the left? That is Jay, of course, our little protagonist.

As always, thank you, Surya Gunawan, for the amazing illustrations that bring my children's book to life!

Soon, Jay will enchant you with her journey to the Family Mountain.

For now, just a behind the scenes image (stay tuned to see the colored version).

Thanks, Surya Gunawan, for the amazing illustrations that bring my children's book to life!

More teasers coming :D

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