LIFE IN STURDY STITCHES

Life in Sturdy Stitches is Valerie Felder’s key work sharing how parents can get back to the basics of raising exceptional children. It offers easy-to-follow strategies for family-bonding success. Providing a behind-the-scenes reality glimpse into her life as a mother, Valerie invites the reader to see how she crafted routine life to benefit her family.  She does it in conversational format for a fun read.


Classify this book as an encouraging, thought-provoking “can-do” parenting manual. Concepts empower parents to plan and function according to specific family needs.  It couples material with ideas for shaping sibling-to-sibling and parent-to-young child relationships as well as healthy ways of interface with adult children. Parenting improvement checklists and projects are interspersed, helping pinpoint those hard places that can challenge a family.   


Engaging and hilarious, heartwarming and real - Life in Sturdy Stitches tells 9 stories of one mother and her unique relationships with her 9 children, both biological and adopted. In a move of transparency, Valerie includes bonus material individually highlighting each of them. These are letters written by her children to give readers a perspective on how their family life impressed the children. The Felder children tell the story of family through their own tender eyes.