Slow Parenting

How to Connect and Find Joy with Your Kids.

By: Sage Mars

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Paperback | 2 April 2026

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206 Pages

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You're doing more for your children than any generation before you. So why does it feel like less?

You love your children fiercely. You fill their calendar, buy the educational toys, drive to every practice and every lesson. And somehow, at midnight, you can't remember the last time you actually talked.

Slow Parenting: How to Connect and Find Joy with Your Kids is the research-backed guide to the parenting model that the developmental science actually supports - and it's not the one most of us absorbed from our culture. Drawing on four decades of attachment research, play science, and the clinical literature on parental burnout, Sage Mars makes a clear-eyed case for doing less, being more present, and trusting children with the unstructured time and genuine connection that growing research shows they genuinely need.

No guilt. No judgment. A practical blueprint for a slower, richer family life.

Part of The Intentional Living Collection. Each book stands alone.

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