I Love You Rituals

This book is absolutely beautiful. I'm finding this a great resource for supporting healthy attachment with my family therapy clients as well as a fun option at home with my own kiddos.

Amazing book for any preschool teacher that helps with circle time as well give parents information on my songs and routines are so important. Highly recommend it!

Wonderful ideas that help guide connections. Easy to follow and meaningful

This book was very useful. It includes SO MANY great ideas to become closer to young children. I am a teacher, a mother, and an aunt. This book gave me great ideas to improve all aspects of my life! Loved the books!!

Love this book!

This book is beautifully written and strengths focused. It is a great resource to share with families within family therapy and bolster positive, heartfelt connections.

This book was very helpful and I learned a lot of valuable tools I can use to help the families I work with.

This is a great book for creating rituals and coming together as a group

Very good book for parents with kiddos. Insightful and lots of fun together!

This is a wonderful book to help form strong bonds between children and their caregivers!

An amazing tool for connection!! Highly recommend this book and the conscious discipline course it goes with!

I love this book. I want with families and this book is a good resource for my work and parents.

Great book and full of awesome ideas!

Such a beautifully written book with great advice!!!

I'm not very good at putting things into words but I likes this book. My children are grown and I have 5 grandsons that I spend a lot of time with. I felt this book would be wonderful for my daughter to read and we applied the concepts together. I would recommend this to others.

Love!! I use with kids I work with!

I appreciate the approach to engaging and interacting with children that Conscious Discipline proposes and advocates for. I Love You Rituals is a good book to supplement other materials related to Conscious Discipline, rather than as a stand-alone text. I Love You Rituals explains the purpose of connecting rituals with children and great approach to parenting that focuses on the relationship and connection, which is a hallmark to discipline (teaching expected behavior and behavior skills). This text contains a lot of different rituals that can be used with children to engage and connect related to variety of purposes, from silly interactions to physically energizing activities to relaxation routines, full of fun ways to engage with you. These rituals are more geared towards younger children, rather than adolescents and are geared more towards adults in the home and within a parenting relationship; however, allows for adaptation for different ages and from the educator and school perspective and use.

I deeply appreciate this book and believe it can be a great tool for parents out there. Most importantly, I am glad this book calls out physical punishment as the oppressive practice that it is. I am working to unlearn the cycles that have been passed down for generations in my family. I would love to see this book translated to Spanish.

Very helpful, encouraging and easy to read and put in use! My family enjoys choosing new activities to show love and see how they feel.

This is a sweet book, with some really concrete examples for younger children. I passed it on to someone I know.

A meaningful, needed conversation started for the time we live in.

Beautiful ways to engage the heart in nourishing ways with simple, easy-to-implement exercises. As a grandma, what I thought was really nice is how the book works to help us unlearn the subtle messages that many traditional rhymes and old-fashioned stories embedded in our brains decades ago. Time to replace them with healthier, more affirming and loving options!

This book was so helpful in setting up foundational supports for my toddlers. Really insightful and addressed things I hadn't even thought of.

Some new rhymes and activities, mostly the old childhood rhymes and songs that I remeber. I like the reminder of the songs and rhymes, and a lot fo the activites are neat to do with toddlers and babies.

This book is filled with familiar rhymes, songs, and finger plays that are adapted to show affection and they are simply adorable! Im already practicing some to start incorporating them with my kids

I absolutely love this book. I read it every night with my 3 girls. We have bonded better with the I love you rituals. I can not wait to read it to my class in the fall. Thank you so much for such an amazing book

One of the most important things that we can do as parents, teachers, and the community is to support attachment with our little ones. This book has a perfect amount of information and activities. Easy to read for parents and educational staff.

This is a powerful tool for connection with children. I love the step-by-step activities and examples in this book. This is an excellent book to teach basic positive interactions and bonds - something that many of us that are parents today, grew up not knowing or having.

Useful for elementary and early childhood education ages!

Great resource for parent coaching

This book worked out great for our Kaleidoscope program!

This book is so helpful! Whether you are a parent or an educator, these rituals can help you connect with your kids. They can feel a little silly at first, but once you get into them, they really work. I highly recommend this book.

Love this book! It really helped me foster better relationships with my children.

Although a lot of the rituals in this book are commonly used amongst families, to be purposeful in the ways you can add songs or mottos was the biggest takeaway for me. Anytime I can be intentional about reinforcing healthy connections and relationships between my child and other family members feels like a win. We now have a special song to sing for Grandma and aunties, etc. Definitely a beneficial add to the family bookshelf.

This book is amazing. Using this alongside the conscious discipline course is very helpful. My daughter loves so many of these, and we have been able to develop a stronger connection through these little moments. Definitely recommend to anyone with young children.

I've taken Conscious Discipline trainings and have wanted to purchase this book. I find that using the I Love You Rituals helps children not only when beginning their day with greetings, but also with the songs and games to enhance their social/emotional skills within the classroom setting, helping with self-regulation.

I absolutely love this book. I was able to adapt, and use several of these ideas in sessions with my clients. As well as, provide parents with ideas to use with their littles.

Many wonderful ideas to enhance parent child interactions and loving, secure attachments.

I absolutely love this book! This book helps create a connection with your kiddo in a fun way and depending on your child's age, they'll be able to follow along, if not, they will at least be entertained.

This was such a pleasure to read. Gave me a nice, relaxed read.

I love how this book is simple and easy to use. Most of the rhymes I already knew, so it gave me ideas for how to modify them and create some personal ones for my two kiddos.

Love this!

This is a great resource for a parent, teacher or caregiver of young children! My preschool students enjoy the finger play "Round and Round the Garden." Thank you for providing our preschool with this wonderful book of ideas!

What amazing ideas for great connections with students. I had never thought of how old nersery rhymes could provide such negative feelings. What great activities that will help provide opportunities for students to feel love and supported in the classroom or at home.

Becky Bailey is one of the leading experts in building resilient classroom and helping students learn to manage big feelings. This book goes along with Conscious Discipline. It provides ways for teachers to build a school family through rituals, songs, and connecting activities. Anyone teaching K-3rd should get this book!

This book is an excellent companion for any teacher or parent striving to make connections with their own child or their classroom. These songs are fun and the hand actions are especially fun to watch the eyes light up on infants and toddlers as they recognize the sound of the song, and the movement of your hands. And then watching them sing it to their friends and the dolls in the classroom is so exciting. They are making connections too!

This book is a phenomenal resource for helping students reconnect in this disconnected covid world we are living in today.

This is an excellent book to have on hand for any parent and/or early childhood educator. I love all the examples in the book. This book is a powerful fun tool to really connect with your child and it's filled with practical step-by-step activities to help you nurture relationship with your child. Can be adapted and applied to any ages really. Clearly written. Excellent resource book.

This book is full of wonderful connections ideas! It can be used with the concepts of Conscious Discipline and is a marvelous companion to it, but is also a great stand-alone. There are ideas aimed at you.ger children that can also work for older children with slight adaptations. It can really inspire new ways to build connections with children in your life!

We use this book all the time in my line of work. It is so great to have it in our parent library. It has been read and used by many parents over the years.

I work with some very challenging young children this year and this book is a treasure. Love using it with all the children not just the challenging ones. The I Love you Rituals are easy to remember and fun to do with the children.

This book has reframed how we interact with my toddler at bedtime! We have been practicing the new rhymes and feel they are more empowering and positive than the originals. I have recommended this book to a friend struggling to connect with their child because it is so life changing.

This was a beautifully written book designed for parents and caregivers alike to read on their own or with their loved ones. The rituals included ideas to utilize with our little ones, whether tiny babies to teenagers, and even adult children. A wonderful book for generations to come. While some of it was a little outdated, the ideas and stories within the book are useful for families such as mine! Highly recommended.

Helpful book with good ideas to support children and families. Aimed towards young kids.

A delightful and positive book about love. I absolutely loved this book and highly recommend it to anyone looking for positive affirmations surrounding love and it's therapeutic results.

This book is an amazing resource for helping caregivers and children connect in ways that are fun and engaging.

I Love You Rituals is an incredible resource offering educators and families ways to build strong connections with children. It is an amazing companion to Dr. Bailey's Conscious Discipline as it accelerates the building of positive relationships.

I enjoyed reading this book of rituals and as a Community Health Nurse that works with Moms and their children, I plan to incorporate these ideas into my practice.

This is a great resources for educators and parents familiar with Conscience Discipline behavior strategies. This book provides activities that boost children's potential in literacy and learning. As well giving strategies to avoid power struggles. I love having this book at my finger tips when I need a new fresh idea.

This is a wonderful way to help us all develop special little things between us as parents and our children. I loved it!

I find this book extremely beneficial to helping me build loving rituals and my relationship with my daughter. I have already recommended to an acquaintance and hope to continue to find ways to embed this book into my daily life.

Book has great ideas for connecting with young children. I teach preschool and am always looking for fun ways to make meaningful connections with my students, most of these ideas are designed for parents and caregivers in the home, but a few will work well in a classroom setting.

I Love You Rituals was an amazing book that taught me how to connect better with my son. It taught me that loving our children unconditionally is the best thing we can do for them. And, that when they lash out, throw tantrums, or whine and cry, they may just be needing more love and attention from us. I've definitely seen what it has done for my and my son's relationship, and I love it so far. I am excited for how these rituals and knowledge will keep our relationship growing stronger every day <3

I am excited to use the ideas and suggestions listed in this book for the upcoming school year. I've started making posters for the classroom.

The book provides the importance of repetitious rhythms of love for your children. The book provides practical routines, rhythms, and actions that one can do in order to enhance love and affection between a parent and child.

This book was very eye opening to me regarding how to improve connection and increase the value of the time spent with my children. When I first started reading it I was thinking "I give my kids so much attention and they just want more!" but as I kept exploring the book I realized the benefit of undivided attention as well as the power of connection. All of the information was very helpful and easy to understand but was not judgmental. Most of the activities are simple and easy but will take some practice to memorize, for example, changing the words of familiar nursery rhymes. I found the book very helpful and a quick read which was important to me as a busy parent.

This book is so lovely! As a teacher who was recently trained in conscious discipline theory, I was hoping to find a one stop shop place for all the cute songs that accompany building up your child/student. This is it! So grateful for the book and can't wait to use it weekly with my class.

This book is a great guide in giving ideas of connecting and reconnecting with children. I love all the different chapters on games that provides preparation and instructions for each.

I Love You Rituals is a great book that gave me the opportunity to spend some great one on one time with my daughter. The Rituals are very basic and easy to follow but have a great impact on a child’s day. I would recommended this book to anyone with kids that are needing the one on one time and need a little more structure.

This is a great, easy to follow program for connecting with your children! I found it to be very useful and simple to use with tons of fun songs and chants to use with all of my kiddos. Would highly recommend. I also was recently trained in Conscious Discipline and this is a wonderful supplement!

This book is filled with simple time tested ideas for connecting intentionally throughout the day with the children in your care, and it gives great insight into behaviors and where they may be stemming from, for instance the child that frequently initiates hide and seek in public places causing safety concerns. These and many other childhood messages are explored with context and tools to have at your disposal. Great book for those moments when all you have are moments, as each activity is explained simply and takes only moments to read, though the mindfulness it stirs will remain much longer.

Very good book at how to create bonding rituals with your child. Good ideas for many ages.

We have been using the Conscious Discipline approach with the children in our preschool for several years, and it has worked wonders. The I Love You Rituals are invaluable for putting this into action. I love the opening sections of this book, where Becky Bailey explains the "whys" (scientific reasoning behind this approach and why these kinds of rituals are vital to the psychological and physical well-being of children). It is basically a crash course in how to be a loving, effective teacher/parent/guardian. Then you have the rituals themselves, many of them based on familiar rhymes, which involve motions that you do together. It is joyful for both the adult and the child! I highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking to create a stronger bond with their child or students.

I chose this book to share with my wife and we've really captured some great "rituals" to try with our new daugher. It's especially useful for new parents who want to build a solid foundation with their child.

It took me a bit to get to this book, with work, kids, and life. It offered lovely suggestions/rituals on how to share/show love to the littles me care so much for.

This book is great. It has different activities, all broken up into categories. Some of the categories are physically active, positive nursery rhymes, and silly interactions plus more. It has good detail on how to do activities while building trust. Overall, great book!

This book is very interesting for a wide range of people and great for interaction for many ages. I love the jingles and sing-song activities. Thanks so much.

I have been through Conscious Discipline training and this book by Becky Bailey is highly recommended to help support teachers in developing relationships with the children in their classrooms. Easy to implement the interactive finger games and rituals into the daily routines. Great book.

Great book...gave me a lot of great ideas

This is an amazing book that helps me as a parent of adult children, a nurse who works with families and now the grandparent of a little boy! The first two chapters are just good reminders or education, depending on your experiences as a child about what children need and respond to. The rest of the book is all the ideas to fit every situation you could ever be in, what to say and do to help a child. There are even suggestions for the casual acquaintance, role modeling and most important I Love You rituals you can do with your own children or grandchildren, or that special niece/nephew etc. This book brought back many happy memories from my childhood, mostly affirmed I did the right things with my children and my clients and gave me a new motivation to do better for all the children in the world!

This book was a great book! We are a family of "I Love You" and now we can pass that on to my Grandson. With this year being what it was, It's great to be able to say "I Love You" whether it be over Zoom or FaceTime or Video Chat.

A beautiful expression and set ideas of how to integrate love into your relationship with children!

Very easy read with positive ideas to encorperate into your life.

We have loved this book and the rhymes and games that make us smile and support the unconditional love message in our family.

This is a great book if you want to learn more about ways you can show your children you love them!

This is a wonderful culmination of explanation of the science that benefits rituals and love. As well as concrete examples. This book did bring me to tears--but in a good way. I feel inspired as a parent!

This is a wonderful book that I would recommend for anyone who has children in their life. My children are grown, but I use the concepts I learned with my grandchildren.

This book has been so useful in school and we are seeing that we utilize a lot of content in our own homes.

I loved this book. As a seasoned teacher, this book gave some real, practical ideas for meeting children at their development needs.

This book is definitely for very young children. It has great suggestions for toddlers through preschool. Playful rhymes, fingerplays, and games with reworded classic rhymes to make them less scary.

I absolutely love conscious discipline and love this book

I thought this book was very insightful and gave many good ways to connect with students in the classroom. 11/10.

I am a big fan of engaging children through rhyme and movement, and "I Love You Rituals" is a great resource for sharing simple games with parents or early childhood educators.

It was a very good book especially for new parents.

This is a wonderful book for my grandson to learn the importance of saying I love you!!!

Good!

This book is filled with beautiful opportunities for parents and children to create connection, which children crave for security and love. Whenever I make eye contact and really engage with my kids, and we sing together or do dances or hand motions together, they really LOVE the interaction with me. I think this book is fun and full of great ideas to engage parents with their children in a fun new way, that an adult likely wouldn't think of all on their own!

appreciated learning activities or ideas to support connection with children in my personal and professional life.

Great loved it

I really enjoyed this book. My son, age 9, read much of it with me, and especially loved seeing the ways that some of the example traditional nursery rhymes were updated with more positive language and messages of positivity. We are a family with a tight bond, and very positive atmosphere, yet still found value in incorporating some of the rituals into our routines. I highly recommend this book to all families!

As both a parent of a young child as well as a home visitor for Healthy Families Oregon, this book has helped my work and my personal relationship with my child. The activities are fun, brief, and yet based in science. Highly recommend to anyone, parent or provider.

This book was very insightful. It had many great ways to engage with your children. The last few chapters had SO many great activities to do with your kids. I was pleasantly surprised with all the information in this book.

Very cool book! My husband and I really liked it

Practical, readable guide to establishing relationships and building resiliance in young children through the establishment and practice of rituals. I passed this book on to a local elementary school counselor. I would recommend to parents, grandparents, teachers, childcare providers -- anyone who spends time with children.

“I Love You Rituals” is an excellent book to help create loving activities to do with your children or with your students to form long lasting connections. Rituals and structure are paramount for brain function and connection. This book gives great examples that can be implemented right away.

I loved the idea of creating Rituals with children. I think it is important to bond with children when they are young because it helps build the connections with each other. When there is a connection children are more likely to come to you when they need help or having something they can't deal with. I will be offering these ideas to the parents I work with and the people I know with babies and children.

Great book with easy ideas to help parents and their young children connect.

HIghly recommended for parents and caregivers of young children. The first three chapters clearly explain the goals of the rituals, provide details about exactly how they can help children's brain development and strengthen relationships, and explain the research behind the theories in easy to read language. The rest of the book provides step by step instructions, sometimes with extra informatione (this ritual is good for children who have experienced trauma, this cross body movement helps boost brain function.) Dr. Bailey skillfully provides explanations of what works when and why, while while making it clear that one size doesn't fit all, leaving readers comfortable to improvise within the framework, using knowledge gained from the book and knowledge of thier child. A quote from the book: "Start using the power of I love you rituals today. Open the book to any page. It will be the perfect one for you and your child. Have fun!"

I loved this book! Love Rituals is an amazing way to build relationships with your child. Using positive touch as reinforcement and adapting common rhymes into positive affirmations is healthy way to build your child's relationships. These rituals are additions on things you probably already do with your child, like lullabies and reading books before bed. The difference is that these ones have basic elements to optimize your child's brain development and social/emotional stability for years to come. I highly recommend this book!

This is a quality book that addresses the major reasons behind the kind of attention-seeking behaviors that I see in early childhood education. Much of these rituals also are useful to address bullying behaviors in children that are just looking for love and unconditional acceptance in the wrong, attention-seeking ways.

Useful for parents of young children.

Great for starting rituals/traditions that communicate love. In general it is promoting positive/affirming language between parent and child which is in short supply these days.

I adore this book. It is great for parents and educators to engage children in meaningful activities that foster a healthy bond.

This book is amazing! It gives background and research (that is easy to understand!) about how rituals help children become connected to others, and helps them learn better, and helps them develop self control. This is so important in today's world!! I've already started using some of the rituals with my 2 year old grandson, and we are both loving them!

Such a cute book. There are so many affirming nursery rhymes with clear step by step instructions on different hand gestures or ways to physically engage your child. This book is great for teaching ways to make your child feel more loved, encouraged, and special.

It's a sweet book full of great ideas on how to bond with small children. But some of it will come off super cheesey if your kids are older.

Great book for ways to connect with your younger kids. Enjoyed the activities.

This is a delightful book for parents and teachers alike. All children deserve to grow up feeling loved and secure!

This is a wonderful book and after I read it I gave it to my daughter who just had a baby.

I Love You Rituals by Becky Bailey provides support for Teachers and Parents alike while working with young children. The children enjoy the nurturing simple games and rhymes that help build solid strong relationships with their Caregivers and Parents, while boosting their social and academic knowledge. The information and the directions for implementing the rituals are easy to read and follow! A fun book that rewards the participants in a healthy loving manner!

A wonderful resource for teachers and to share with families! My favorite is Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, the children love it!

I absolutely love this book and highly recommend. Such good stuff for you and your little ones.

I didn't expect just how much was in this book! Such wonderful ideas and songs that I will be trying out in my class!

Since I started doing the rituals I have seen a positive change on some of the children that are dealing with difficult situations at home.

Wonderfully written book! I absolutely appreciate the easy to do activities to connect with my girls.

I love you Rituals is a wonderful book filled with Rhymes, Songs and activities to do with children. I have started sharing these songs with families in our program and they absolutely love them.

I really love this book using some of the songs and interactions it has in it has really helped me connect with some children in class that needed the connection. thank you so much for the book.

I was expecting to learn a great deal from this book. I was also expecting to be challenged and inspired. Both expectations were met, if not exceeded. What I did not expect was to have the pause several times while reading to regain my composure and quietly find some Kleenex. After the first embarrassing experiences when people around me must have wondered what I crying about, I’d read the book alone (preferably late at night when I’d be sure no one would suddenly speak with me)! The examples that Dr. Bailey shares touched a chord deep within me. I loved the woman whose ritual involved sniffing her granddaughter. I used to do that with my kids! And to this day (when my kids have kids of their own) we still remember our I Love You rituals. Including having our own affectionate language (babylove mamalove, big hagabaga, etc). I used up lipstick much faster than most women because I’d plant several red kisses on my kids’ faces (nose, cheeks, forehead, chin, and light ones on eyelids) before I’d leave for work. I used to have a two-hour commute and would leave the house long before they awakened but they knew that I’d said goodbye before leaving. Many of Dr. Bailey’s I love you rituals sound like a description of what we did when the kids were growing up. My kids and I have been through more than our share of difficulties (including having an extremely abusive spouse/father) and the fact that they all grew up to become responsible, caring, and wonderful human beings is testimony to the power of I love You rituals. When I started teaching, one of the best things I heard (from a school principal) was “You have a calming effect on kids.” I think that’s largely because I truly strive to connect with them. And this book will help me connect even more! I truly hope that more people read and apply the suggestions in this book.

I love this book. It gave me great ideas and rituals for my kids. We practice one every day.

This book is filled with great activities to do with my family and the kids at school.

I want to love this book. Conceptually, it's great. Realistically, it should be colorful, laminated, bound, and something easy to pull out with a baby/toddler on your lap. Unfortunately, the content is there, but the delivery makes the book a lot less useful than it could be. I hope that someday an illustrated, durable version is printed.

“I Love You Rituals” is a valuable addition to my library as I continue educating, learning, and growing with the little ones in my life. My four-month old grandson loves the fingerplays. I am encouraging all my families who have preschoolers attending our speech groups to sign up for this wonderful opportunity and start building their libraries with informative and useful books.

Lots of good ideas and age appropriate for littles

This book is full of awesome ideas to show the little ones in your life, you love them.

I love this book. So do my children

A wonderful book with many great ideas for creating special rituals with children.

Lots of great ideas in here! Definitely feels more geared toward younger kids but the process of creating rituals is universal. Great read!

This book is really geared towards parents, particularly ones that are good at keeping habits. I got the book as an educator hoping to find some ideas to strengthen connection in our program. I do think the book might be appropriate for pre-school educators, but our youth are a little older and it seems geared to toddlers. Generally, i think the idea is excellent and she does a great job of separating the "rituals" into type of activity in the table of contents, and then into topics, such as "saying hello/goodbye" or "healing," at the end of chapter 3, p.53-56. My take away: -This book is not meant to be read straight through. Read the first few chapters to get an idea of how to use the book, and then use the activities in the later chapters periodically to create rituals. There are enough to find ones you like. -This book is for parents or pre-schools, but not great for older kids. I will likely not keep the book, but pass it on to a friend with a baby or toddler.

I Love You Rituals helped me consider how our family can be strengthened by establishing habits that reinforce our values and beliefs.

LOVED this book! I use it w/ my kid at home and my students at school. So many great ideas and easy to use tools to build trust, community and joy.

Great ideas for building relationships with your kiddos

I actually got this book for a friend of mine who has a son to a sarcastic. I've kind of scan through the book and marked a couple of things that I think we're going to be great for her. It's going to be a guide for her to help him as he grows older. Thank you so much

A great way to change up the routines and make them fun.

I loved this book! It laid out the rationale for children needing connection with the adults in their lives, and gave 70+ activities, games and songs for connecting. All of these activities will help those students be ready for learning, increase social skills, and build positive relationships.

Darling book, great ideas to help connect with your child.

This book is wonderful for resetting outdated terminology in speaking with growing young children. It provides a gentle, positive attitude toward communication and connecting with each other.

Amazing book! Great tool to utilize during instructional coaching with child care providers.

I loved this book so much from work that I had to get my own copy. It has great ways to connect with children. I've seen these activities work.

This book was super helpful in my classroom of SPED students. I love the rituals and how they related to helping children feel safe and secure.

As a teacher and parent to a toddler, I am always interested in resources that will help my students and my daughter learn to be more self-regulated, well-adjusted, and empathetic. This book provided a lot of practical suggestions for how to build small moments of connection into daily life. It was full of heartfelt reminders to slow down and look for opportunities to truly see and communicate with the small people who depend on adults for comfort, reassurance, and stability. I am already using some of the rituals with my daughter and my students, and I can see how much we will all treasure these opportunities for connection. A wonderful book for caregivers! Highly recommend!

Often times we as people, mothers, businesswomen, friends, sisters, etc. get caught up in all the rush of everyday life, that the fast-paced nature of a day makes it hard to slow down to take time simply for the important sake of connection. As a mom, I am super critical of myself, and often times think back on the day wondering why I was in such a hurry, when the moments that are most fulfilling are the slow, intentional ones spent with my little, now 3 years old, human. This book is great at helping with the intentionality. After becoming a lawyer, as odd as it may sound, my brain has been configured in a way, that it truly is easier to "follow directions" through a book offering techniques and advice, than it is to self-lead and control my own thoughts at times. This is a helpful, light hearted manuscript for those who wish to connect, and take the thought process of "how" to do that, or "in what way today?" Enjoyable read.

This is a lovely book and I highly recommend it! I dove in as soon as it came. It's a quick and easy read, but it's immediately applicable. I have a five-year-old son and he loved all of the rhymes and rituals we've tried so far. I've referred to this often and see myself using it lots more in the future.

This book is great and has some great activities. Really like the idea behind the love languages. As a teacher I would love to implement some of these songs and ideas into my classroom in order to create a more loving and fulfilling environment.

This book offers really practical connection points in the daily rhythms of life. Many of the songs not only benefit my current relationship with my child but gently heal wounds from my childhood.

I’m so glad my work told me about this book. It has been amazing to use in my classroom and see the change in the children’s

I had been looking for new ideas on ways to connect with my 4 year old son. And this book gave me lots of meaningful ideas. He thrives on consistency and I definitely found things in this book that we both enjoying doing together each day to show our love for each other.

This book has man great tools for both new parents and for parents who need help creating bedtime routines for children who might struggle staying in bed or have anxiety being by themselves. Good resource to have in the office of counselors who work with young children and families.

I am excited to use this book in my upcoming clinical internship and future social work practice following graduation.

This book contains many activities that are age appropriate to do with young children. While the book is created for parents and children it is also a really good tool to you in the classroom with preschoolers. It helps create a space of trust and connection which then leads to a better learning environment.

Fabulous resource for working with kids.

"I Love You Rituals" is a great book for parents and teachers. This book has several fun games and activities that express unconditional love, build brain potential, promote learning and literacy, and encourage cooperation and caring. I Love You Rituals help build connections between you and your children.

This book was easy to read through and had a great positive message to educators and families about building rituals into your life that let children build self control and connections with adults. It explained why these things were important and gave many different rituals that you can do with young children daily.

A great read about shifting from families and communities based on roles to groups based on healthy relationships. What wonderful ideas and activities to perform with your children to encourage the growth of healthy relationships within the family. Many of these can be carried over into education as well. Dr. Bailey does it again.

I LOVE THIS BOOK!! It primes w child’s brain for learning I enjoy it all.

I Love You Rituals is an amazing book. I have incorporated many of these activities into my daily routine with kids and we all love them.

I Love You Rituals by Dr.Becky Bailey is an wonderful step towards using song and play to make connections with kids. The rituals are easy to learn , and simple to complete . They take just a minute , but can help create connections that last forever .

This is the best parenting handbook that I’ve read so far. My kids and their friends lap up the bonding and attention that these games create. I play about three games in a row with my daughter when she gets into a bad mood, and it always lifts her back into her happy self. The introduction should be read, because it contains valuable advice. For example, saying “good job” every time your child shows you something is not helping your child. It’s better to notice what the child did, and tell the child what you noticed, without any value judgment. I was shocked how much more positively kids respond to this type of mirroring. They really crave this, and it can feel like flat feedback, but being noticed for who they are and seeing themselves through your eyes, without judgment, is what they really want. Get this book.

This is a very informative book, with lots of ideas for connecting and engaging children. There are some old favorite nursery rhyme music set to new words, so it isn't difficult and didn't feel awkward to try using them. Plus, kiddos know the songs so they are eager to sing wit you! Well worth the time and energy to read this book!

I am really enjoying this book. I have used conscious discipline before and work with children ages 0-3 and these are perfect for this age group to help connect and bond with baby.

A sweet book full of great rituals to instill in younger children. I keep this book in my office when I’m counseling parents who need ideas.

This book had a lot of really cute examples of fun things to do with my child. The layout was a little hard to read and it was organized by activity type instead of age group. Overall, sweet.

This book is an excellent resource for anyone spending time with babies and very young children. Great ideas for poems, songs, games, and sweet interactions for providing loving, gentle, and positive activities with young ones.

love! so sweet and creative!

A fun read that had my kiddo singing along. Definitely recommended!

I love you rituals is a gret read and has a lot of positive activities. I will refer to it often.

Very sweet stuff. Helpful for those looking for ideas

While this was a good book, it is not for children that are too young to sit still. Most activities involve focused interaction. I read that it was good for infants but did not find that to be true.

I used this book to accompany Becky's curriculum of Conscious Discipline. It was helpful to have a book with activities to encourage families to practice.

"I Love you Rituals" by Becky Bailey is an interesting read. She starts out with the psychology behind the importance of touch and unconditional love. Though this portion of the book is a little drawn out, she uses relatable (at least for me) real world examples from the lives of her and her friends. Thankfully, these examples are not the typical corny vignettes found in so many psychology or self-help books. Rather, they are brief examples that highlight the point she is trying to make and helps the reader evaluate his or her parenting style and how he or she can improve. The delightful rhymes and games that follow vary and allow the reader to find activities that will work for their personality, their children, and the different situations. There are rhymes for many settings and many ages, some familiar and some new. There is a ritual for everyone among this book's pages.

This is an excellent book that provides many opportunities to connect with your child in order to strengthen your relationship and bonds. There are many activities that children will love and enjoy that are beneficial to their growth and development.

I enjoyed reading this book. There is no manual for having kids and sometimes I feel like I just don't know how to have fun with my kids! So, I'd read about ONE ritual or song to do and practice it for a few days until it became routine. Some of the ideas were really not for me or for my kid but a lot of them were. I think this was a great book for those of us that want to bring more joy and connection into our parenting. I know this is a book that I will pick back up periodically and look at and get some ideas.

I love the idea concept of this book. Since reading the book I have incorporated some of the "I love you rituals" into my daily interactions with the children in my classroom. This book is easy to read and the activities are easy to follow and they only take but seconds to conduct. I have already noticed closet bonds with some of my students. I can't wait to start next school year with using "I love you rituals" from the very beginning

Beck Bailey has such a wonderful way of creating loving, caring interactions in her book, "I Love You Rituals." My kids at school love the nursery rhymes and finger plays. We have been practicing them together for a couple of months now and they are starting to receive them to each other. Our classroom has really enjoyed this book and we as teachers have noticed a social-emotional growth among the children as well. I would highly recommend this book to any family or caretaker.

Some of the ideas are good but definitely geared for toddlers

So great! I use it with parents all the time.

This is a fantastic book that incorporates simple routines into daily life. The routines are sweet and help facilitate healthy relationships and bonding. I work in Early Intervention and have incorporated a few of these routines into my weekly sessions with my client kiddos. They have loved the songs!

This book (I havent finished it) seems to be in line with all of my infant-toddler trauma training. I plan to use it with the at-risk families I service to build their bonding and attachment to each other, and with my nephew--because I love him. Its a great reminder when you are desperately trying to recall childhood nursery games and cant think of any!

It is a great book to use if you plan on implementing conscious discipline. The songs are more suited to younger elementary kids or kids that haven't entered school yet.

This book is going to be great for use in the Early Childhood Special Education classrooms I support. There are lots of fun poems and finger plays with clear directions for the teacher (or parent). The activities are designed to help the child and adult connect by making eye contact, sharing gentle touch, being playful and laughing together. For all of the Conscious Discipline fans who work with young children, this is a great resource.

This book is a blessing to our family. Easy to read, fun ideas you can incorporate immediately

The book I Love You Rituals was not only an interesting read, but something I am excited to implement with my infant at home. The insight into the benefits of touch and rituals throughout the book, not only make it something fun to implement but something with a purpose. I enjoyed the discussions of how to implement these learning and fun rituals with the examples. Some of the routines are ones I will definitely implement, others I might adapt. I feel that the ones that focus on altering nursery rhymes will be ones I may not focus on but use the songs that go along with the rhymes. I feel that the emphasis on human touch and the development of children is a fascinating topic and this book does a great job in describing the concept without being too “scientific.” Because of this, the book does not leave the reader confused and instead does a good job in keeping the interest of the reader while keeping the book relevant to the reader as well. This book is good at providing information regarding the development of children and their brains as it pertains to love and human touch.

As a pre-service teacher, I was so happy to find this book was available. There are so many fantastic resources for teachers (and parents) of little ones. I recommend this book to all parents and educators. Thank you, FFF!

Love the different ideas this book gives me to bond with my granddaughter

I am a behavior consultant, and this book is a wonderful resource for the parents of young children I work with. I wish I'd had it when my kids were little!

I really enjoyed this book and so did my four and eight year old. There were many things to do and a variety of quick activities and longer ones to choose from. I would recommend this!

Awesome book! It provides positive nursery rhymes vs. the old ones that are way outdated. And positive parenting strategies. Thank you sooo much!

As a future educator and current nanny I get the opportunity to work and engage with kids a lot! This book gave great practical ideas and insight into creating those meaningful relationships that are the foundation to successful learning.

Very informative and easy to read.

I love this book! The authors clearly understand that it’s those special, little things that create strange parent-child attachment. We have had great discussions as a team reflecting on meaningful memories from our own childhoods, and those we created with our children.

I Love You Rituals is a positive, sweet, easy-to-use manual of games and nursery rhymes to use with young children to increase joy and attachment. The book states that it is recommended for caregivers for children from infancy to age eight, but it seems to me to be most appropriate for early childhood, up to age 4 or 5. I wish I had had a book like this when my own children were babies and I was exhausted and needing support in staying present and positive with them. I think that this book would be especially helpful for caregivers of hard-to-soothe children or children who have been through trauma. I would also recommend it to parents who did not have good attachment figures in their own childhood, and may be looking for support in learning how to play and be silly with their own kids. If you naturally know how to be goofy and loving and play peek-a-boo or itsy-bitsy-spider, then this book will have less to offer to you. I plan to pass this book along to a friend who is a preschool teacher, for her to share with families. I think the ideas for rituals of saying hello and good-bye would be especially useful for kids going to daycare or preschool for the first time.

This book includes so many tools to connect with your children and fully understand where they are coming from. There is no true guide book for parenting and every style is different, but if you feel like you want to give more confidence and effort into the parent-child relationship this is a very helpful read.

This book for me is an eye opener to how our children learn from the way we touch, communicate, and interact with them. I enjoyed this book a lot, it introduced ways for me to have positive rituals and fun games to help children succeed in life. It also made me think differently about the way we have communicated in the past and what those teachings have lead to in our lives today.

This book is phenomenal. Creating the time to do a few excersizes from this boom has increased mine and my childs bond. It has made us more aware of each other during our day to day routine and decreased stress during rough moments.

I thought that this book had some great ideas, though some seemed unrealistic in real, day to day life.

Oh my gosh this book is amazing. I love all the little songs. They are fun to teach my Class. A must read.

This was a great book! So many wonderful ideas to use in teaching children!

I LOVE this book! I work with preschoolers and their families. I recommend this book to many of my parents. It is easy for anyone to understand and has great ideas to help parents connect with their children on a deeper emotional level. Children love songs and fingerplays. If the songs are about them even better. I think this book should be given to every newborn's family and also to foster families to encourage connections in a world that is often turned upside down for foster children.

This is a great addition to our library on fostering positive social-emotional development. We love all of Becky Bailey's work, and this book is best for being able to share her ideas with parents. Beyond the sweet rhymes and games suggested (which are great for parents OR teachers to use), there is some wonderful information about working towards a positively attached relationship between parents and children. We woud recommend this book to anyone who has a child in their lives.

I could not put this book down! "I Love You Rituals" states on the front that it is for parents and children, but as an educator I found this book extremely useful. As a busy teacher and student, I often worry about bonding with all 19 of my students . I feel like there just aren't enough hours in the day and that some students demand more attention than others. With "I Love You Rituals", solutions and suggestions are offered to help ensure that every opportunity to connect with your child (or students) is meaningful and beneficial. A great read for those who want to go above and beyond with their child but don't where to start!

I really liked this book. I nanny my 4 yr old granddaughter, but it has been 40 years since I raised my children. Some things I rememered from doing with my children, but this book had so many new and fun ideas. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and am very pleased with it. Thank you Ford Foundation for this program.

This book brought my daughter and I closer than ever! The games in here are simple, $0 money involved, and so much fun. I have shared this book now with multiple moms. I am the leader of 12 moms at my job, this book went a long way :)

Very good book to read as a family. My son like the poems, especially.

This is a wonderful book and i will be using it a lot in my classroom. I love it.

I loved this book! I feel like it should be a must read for everyone. It has good insight to why we are the way we are, but it also has great rituals to do with your children to make connections. Th connections that we make and how we speak and interact with our children is what is going to shape them into the people they will become. I felt like this book is going to help me make my child a better person that can make connections and self regulate.

The book was more of an update on familiar nursery rhymes and less about innovative ways to interact with children. Although is says up to age 8, it really focuses on very young children.

I have a 8 month old baby so the sections I found very useful were the positive nursery rhymes and cuddling and snuggling games. We really enjoyed the row row your boat snuggle game. The nursery rhymes are so much better then what I grew up with. They’re a lot more positive and can show my baby love and nurturing and not so much negativity. I can’t wait to use more of the activities as gets older as well as taking into account the discipline tips for parents.

This is a great resource for ways to have more connection with young children, through rhymes and songs. As a teacher of older children, I don't find it helpful for the classroom. However, I have used it with my niece and nephew, and they love them.

My grandson loves the games from the book. It's ideas are inspiring in spending time with him.

I really enjoyed reading this book. It is filled with different ways to connect and strengthen your relationship with your child or students. I also liked the positive nursery rhymes and games!

Absolutely loved it ! It helped me connect with my daughter on a new level!

Fantastic! Excellent read for any parent

This is a good book. The first couple chapters detail the philosophy behind the importance of meaningful connection rituals and the rest of the book gives a variety of examples of effective rituals. Recommended for all parents.

Enjoying this book. The first chapters explain the importance of these “I Love You Rituals” in a simple and clear way. Many of these activities remind me of Theraplay and other attachment based activities. What is more is that my 10 year old looked at it and brought up old rhymes we used to do. Yep we did them and cuddled later too.

Wonderful book.

Great book for educators in the social service field.

Loved this book!

I enjoy this book and know that it will be a good reference to families who I support in parent child interactions. On a personal note, I have fond memories of th activities from my own childhood. Way more verses than I ever knew. Fun to reminisce!

Many times the parents I work with do not know how to play with their children. This book teaches ways to interact with children that are easy and fun.

Love it. So many good things in it and know we will be referring to it for years. Great book.to strengthen my bond with my child even more

This is a delightful book not just for my young grandchildren but even for my older ones. I love how the nursery rhymes are re written to be child friendly. We make it a point to bring the book out every day.

What a great book to help enhance the relationship between parent and child. Great ideas on how to build in special moments that will become lasting memories.

I had attended the Conscious Discipline class about two months ago. I saw this book listed as one of the books that I could get, so I ordered it. I really love the book. So many wonderful songs and activities. Love using it for my classes

This book book was not quite what I expected but had a few good ideas, I was able to pass it along to a friend and she is excited to read it.

This book is so sweet and gives great ideas for bonding with your children.

The information in this book is very helpful. Wither its dealing with little kids or teens. The suggestions of I love you rituals are practical and easy to umderstand.

Delightful!

amazing book, i was introduced last year in a conscience discipline class and have wanted a copy. the rituals make a differnce in the preschoolers day. they even do the rituals to each other

"I Love You Rituals" is such a beautiful book, it has so many things to do with a child, games, songs... you name it. I found it a very educational piece and something I turn to for activities all the time.

This book is full of fum and positive nursery rhymes and games to grow with your children as they age. It is a great way to involve the family in fun and bonding!

Very helpful as I work in the education district. These suggestions and rituals are beneficial to children and create a sense of trust. I recommend this book to every parent and educator working with young students in the pre-k through 1st grade.

I found this book very helpful in my first grade classroom. The songs and games are easy for younger learners to master. They have helped foster a "school family" in the classroom. I have also noticed a growth in attention spans and cooperation.I would recommend this book for preschool- first grade.

This is such a great book, full of positive messages, fun games and poems

I love this book with its insight into how disconnected from one another people have become and the many ideas of ways we can work on building deeper connections with our children and in society in general.

It give simple ways to engage young children. It will be a good asset to use to help serve the children I teach.

Wonderful book full of ideas for engaging with your younger child.

I am about half way through this book and I can not believe how informative it is. Usually I have to force myself to read books like this, but this book is so easy to get wrapped into.

This book is a good resource for parents or people working with younger children. I think there are some takeaways for working with older kids as well. Great activities and I really enjoyed what it said about incorporating healthy touch into interactions.

This book is great! Been using this book along with Conscious Discipline in my classroom.

I practiced positive parenting with my children. This book shares a similar philosophy of creating bonds with your child while you teach them.

Great read for parents who want to raise compassionate children!

It was an awesome book but it is really more for people with younger kids

After attending the Conscious Discipline Training, I have learned how powerful I Love You rituals can be when making connections with children. I am pleased with how the book is set up, as it not only provides the words to each ritual, but also explains in detail how to perform each ritual with variations. I am eager to begin using these rituals with my students for years to come.

"I Love You Rituals" is an excellent and easy read. It is informative and useful for parents as well as teachers. The little rhymes are easy to follow and fun for kids and adults. It's wonderful to see the smiles on kids faces as they participate in the finger plays.

Excellent resource for esteem building activities to do with children of any age. I like the reworking of traditional rhymes and stories for more appropriate messaging.

Great book for ideas of building stong bonds with your child. Practical and fun.

Most books about parenting tell you how you should be doing it but they don't give you any practical help or examples so nothing changes. This book spends the first half explaining how important bonding time and showing unconditional love to your child is and the second half is the rhymes to do in order to accomplish it. The rhymes and games seem so cheesy and stupid, but if you really get into them and let yourself be silly then children love them. I have a 1 1/2 year old and a 4 year old. Some of the rhymes are a little too advanced for the young one, but my 4 year old just lights up when I do them and I get real eye contact and attention from her. She's even willing to do them when she's been having a tantrum and she's angry at me.

This book was such a easy read and filled with so many simple and gentle suggestions on how to build these rituals into your day. I have passed the book on to a Mom of a toddler who has shared with me that she has already made some adjustments to her days to include some of these rituals. Thank you so much for this opportunity! :)

This book is a great resource for those with younger children in their lives looking for simple ways to strengthen connection and bonds. I ordered it with a grade school child in mind, but it would work best with toddlers. I am going to pass it along to others I believe would benefit from it.

This book is delightful for strengthening the bond between parent and child. My two year old loves the positively-spun nursery rhymes. Right now a lot of the activities are me doing them and him watching, but I can see him joining along in the near future. I think this book is great for parents, caregivers, and child care providers of children from infancy through seven years old. The book is a lot of writing with no pictures depicting the body movements to go along with activities. This is why I gave it three stars.

Great book! Lots of examples, and activities that we will be trying out.

This book is not what I anticipated it would be. It could be helpful for a childcare worker to put into practice.

The author does a wonderful job creating a clear, parent-friendly rationale for establishing and maintaining rituals. There a multitude of example rituals and they are organized by themes. This is a great resource for parents and mental health professionals.

This is an extensive collection of positive Rhymes and fingerplays. It seems to be aimed at infant and preschool age children.

Great book with lots of great suggestions and information!

I love that this book focuses on the emotional needs of the child and reconnecting with them to enjoy them again. The better the relationship, the more children will obey what we ask them to do. This is a great book in giving ideas for fun nursery rhymes, games that will just be fun to do and will build the emotional relationship between parent and child! Definitely a keeper and a great resource for divorce, new siblings, any major life change!

This is a great book for my kids and me to bond better. Gives a ton of activities. Also great for my work with the kids there.

This book is geared for very small children of which I do not have anymore. It gives a lot of rhymes to do with your child.

Absolutely believe in Conscious Discipline! Great I love you rituals to strengthen relationships with children and build close connections.

Fun activities to work with kids and build their relationships with ones self and each other. I plan on using this for group activities.

Great book

Great book with a lot of helpful hints as a parent and educator. Highly recommend anything from Dr. Bailey to help with children. Great tools.