This is an exciting month for API Reads in which you, the reader, get to choose which direction you’ll go in your reading.

We are still reading Parenting from the Inside Out by Daniel J. Siegel, MD, and Mary Hartzell for the general audience and for those with children under the school-age years. We will also be reading Parent Effectiveness Training by Thomas Gordon for those with children who are in the school-age years and above.

For Parenting from the Inside Out, we have read the Introduction, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. For the month of September we will be reading Chapters 3 to 6. The topics for these chapters will be:

• Chapter 3 – How We Feel: Emotion in Our Internal and Interpersonal Worlds

• Chapter 4 – How We Communicate: Making Connections

• Chapter 5 – How We Attach: Relationships Between Children and Parents

• Chapter 6 – How We Make Sense of Our Lives: Adult Attachment

For Parent Effectiveness Training, we’ll be reading Chapters 1 to 4. The topics for these chapters will be:

• Chapter 1 – Parents Are Blamed but Not Trained

• Chapter 2 – Parents Are Persons, Not Gods

• Chapter 3 – How to Listen So Kids Will Talk to You: The Language of Acceptance

• Chapter 4 – Putting Your Active Listening Skill to Work

Our discussions happen on GoodReads,  so don’t hesitate to join in the conversation. We read a chapter a week, and sometimes you can’t get through the chapter and yet may find that you will still be able to participate in the conversation. So come join the other 400+ members who are already part of the conversation!