Parenting Strong After Prison

There's no finish line in a family. The work keeps going, and that's okay.

Years after a parent comes home, families still have hard days. Kids grow and change. Old questions come back at new ages. Trust still wobbles when life gets stressful. Co-parents, caregivers and old patterns don't disappear just because the sentence is over.

Parenting Strong After Prison is about the long haul: keeping a family strong long after the dust settles. Written in plain, honest language, it gives mothers and fathers steady, lasting ways to stay close to their kids through every stage.

Inside, readers will find:
• Communication that keeps a child talking
• Handling conflict so hard moments stay safe
• Repairing trust after a slip
• Carrying stress without passing it down
• Growing with a child through new stages
• Working with co-parents and caregivers for the long term
• Building family traditions that hold everyone together
• Accountability without shame
• Long-term healing for the whole family
• Staying close as a child grows up and pulls away

For mothers and fathers in the years after incarceration, whether life has settled down or is still taking shape, and a thoughtful gift from the family walking that road with them.

Strong families are built one ordinary day at a time.

Book 3 of the Behind the Walls: Parenting Series, following Parenting From Prison and Parenting Through Reentry.