Parenting From Prison

Being locked up doesn't stop someone from being a parent. It changes how they show up.

If someone you love is serving time, you've seen how hard it is. Calls get cut short. Visits get canceled. Letters go unanswered. A lockdown hits at the worst possible time. And their child is growing up on the other side of the wall.

Parenting From Prison gives incarcerated mothers and fathers practical tools to stay in their children's lives, written for the limits they live with every day. In plain, honest language, it walks them through the everyday work of staying connected: what to write, what to say, what to do when things go wrong, and how to keep showing up for a child who may be angry, hurt or quiet.

Inside, they'll find:

• Letters a child will actually want to read, with real examples

• How to make every phone call count, and what to say when one doesn't happen

• Handling missed calls, lockdowns and long silences

• What to do when a child is angry, distant, or won't talk

• Working with caregivers and co-parents, even difficult ones

• Getting a child ready for visits

• Parenting by age group, from the inside

• Conversation scripts they can adapt to their own family

• A simple monthly plan for staying connected

• A closing chapter on getting ready to come home as a parent

A meaningful book to send to a mother or father inside, whatever the sentence and whatever the situation back home.

Behind the wall, they are still a parent.

Book 1 of the Behind the Walls: Parenting Series. The series continues with Parenting Through Reentry and Parenting Strong After Prison.