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Wired and Connected

Brain Based Solutions To Ensure Your Child’s Social and Emotinal Success. 

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Best Selling Parenting Book!  

Practical and actionable resource for today’s parent.  

Easy, and fast advice to help you navigate todays parenting challenges.

This top recommended paretning book will give you the tools to understand:

  • About your childs unique brain-developemnt and how to build social and emotional skills to become a thriving adult

  • How to help your child navigate social pressures, friendships, screen-time and stress

  • Dealing with conflict with your child

  • Building family connectedness

  • Helping your child fail and why that is a good thing.

This book is the exact how-to guide for parents, teachers and educators to give children that very skill. Parents of teen’s will also learn about the brain basics for the developing teen’s social and emotional brain functioning.

Wired and Connected (Illumify Media Global).  This book is being called the “must have” manual to understanding and helping your child to succeed and thrive! 

Craig’s teachings are rooted in building or improving a child’s self-confidence and self-respect so that your child can navigate and master his own social and emotional well-being.

    A must read for all parents with kids or grand kids of any age! 

    This book is transformational for parents and kids alike! Thoughtfully prepared with years of data to support the conclusions.

    Verified Amazon Review: Annmarie Hoskins

    A Must-Read for Helping Our Digital Kids

    Wired And Connected is the new must read for helping our digital kids. It’s solid, proven, well-written, stocked-full of tips, and oh so needed. Craig Knippenberg has done something wonderful — and parents need this advice. His background in mental health and working with kids comes through, but it’s also written in a parent-friendly manner. I strongly recommend this book!

    Amazon Review: Michele Borba, Ed.D.

    Accessible tools and understanding to help parents and all who work with children

    I have two copies so that I can share with family and friends. Craig’s experience as a therapist, school counselor and parent are like treasure. Each time I read a new section I’m better equipped for understanding a wider group of people. More importantly I have more empathy for children and families and a greater desire and ability to help them. I’m forever grateful to Craig for this.

    Verified Amazon Review: Paul Duval

    An Awesome Read! 

    What a wonderful book to guild parents and teachers in today’s world! Such good sound advice and practical ideas to address kids today. Every parent and teacher should be required to read this book by Mr. Knippenberg! I highly recommend it!

    Verified Amazon Review: Liz

    Educational and entertaining! Wonderful read!

    This book is a must-read for any curious mind! I am a student physician seeking information on the social and emotional development of children so that in the future I may provide scientifically accurate yet practical advice to parents. This book gave me all of that information and more. While I am not a parent, this book is excellent in providing easily understandable scientific explanations about how a child’s brain develops and how this leads to specific behaviors. Then the book includes fun activities and different ways to connect with your child and encourage them to develop empathy, a particularly vital social and emotional skill. Finally, the book divulges the author’s personal learning experiences that lead to deeper understanding, compassion, and patience for children and for other human beings. You will be engaged from beginning to end!

    Amazon Review: Elizabeth Chenard

    Educational and Entertaining. A wonderful read! 

    This book is a must-read for any curious mind! I am a student physician seeking information on the social and emotional development of children so that in the future I may provide scientifically accurate yet practical advice to parents. This book gave me all of that information and more. While I am not a parent, this book is excellent in providing easily understandable scientific explanations about how a child’s brain develops and how this leads to specific behaviors. Then the book includes fun activities and different ways to connect with your child and encourage them to develop empathy, a particularly vital social and emotional skill. Finally, the book divulges the author’s personal learning experiences that lead to deeper understanding, compassion, and patience for children and for other human beings. You will be engaged from beginning to end!

    Verified Amazon Review: Elizabeth Chenard

    Great Book! Alot to think about! 

    Good insight to our kids minds!

    Verified Amazon Review: Michelle tatman

    Craig Simplifies, Defines and Clearly Directs the Most Confused and Weary Parental Unit!

    Not only have we benefited from Wired and Connected as parent of a son with ADHD and DMDD , but were fortunate to have Craig as our family’s counselor for some time. Disruptive mood dysregulation disorde (DMDD) is a childhood condition of extreme irritability, anger, and frequent, intense temper outbursts. Knowing now our son’s mind works differently and how we could respond to it helped our family survive a wildly challenging upbringing to find our 15 year old son emerge with a collection of kind and intelligent traits we are proud of. Our son brings a heady collection of self-possessed emotions and drives that are unique and invaluable. He is also now growing an internal compass he will use to steer a lifetime growth… and he is now revealing to us that we can breathe and let go, degree by degree, and with confidence.

    Amazon Review: Heather W. Ernst

    Dr. Knippenberg knows how kids are wired.  

    Reading this book gave me a lot of insight into my two daughters’ emotional and social distress or success through how their brains are wired. It’s an easy to understand and follow book which I highly recommend if you’re wanting to figure out how to help your child with their emotional self-esteem.

    Verified Amazon Review: Angie

    About the Author

    Craig A. Knippenberg, LCSW, M.Div. is a mental health therapist and school consultant, author and public speaker.

    In 40 years, he has dedicated himself to working with children and families, specializing in child and adolescents with neurobehavioral disorders. Since founding his practice in 1986, he has established an impactful reputation for his work with more than 5000 children and families as well creating and implementing a brain-based curriculum in Denver area schools.

    As a national speaker, he has lectured on child/adolescent brain development before audiences of parents and professional groups. He has published numerous pieces for books, clinical journals and magazines/newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal, Time and the Denver Post. He has also appeared on various local television programs in metro-Denver serving as a mental health expert during tragic events in the community.

    Wired and Connected joins scientific and researched-based treatments with creative and proven parenting techniques in a guidebook to navigate childhood that can be easily understood and immediately applied. In fact, the approaches spelled out in the book have been endorsed by leading parenting authors and brain specialists alike.

    The insightful book was derived from Craig’s experience working with children and families in his private practice as well as his tenure serving as a school consultant at one of Denver’s top private elementary and middle schools. This experience, coupled with Knippenberg’s knowledge of brain development and function, is encapsulated in Wired and Connected, which designed to help parents, teachers and mental health counselors as they guide children through some of life’s toughest years.

    Wired and Connected: Professional Endorsement Larry Yoder

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    My profession, a Bookseller, causes me to be involved with many attempts to describe a psychological position, theory and helpful practices. Craig’s work is among the best I have read allowing me to promote/sell his work to any person with confidence in content and style.  I think the book will be helpful to parents and children as they determine who they wish to be as a person.  Simply stated, this is a good, helpful and readable book well worth its cost.

    Larry Yoder, Buyer/Bookseller, the Bookies, Denver

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    In “Wired and Connected,” Mr. Knippenberg integrates the science of brain development with his diverse and compassionate ….

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    The insight to understand each child as a unique individual will give parents the tools to help their children succeed academically and socially. This book has helped me gain a new approach to address my patient’s needs.

    In this book, Craig Knippenberg combines his many years as a skilled child therapist with the latest in neurobehavioral science. This is presented in a manner that is helpful to physicians, educators, and most importantly parents of elementary school aged children. The insight to understand each child as a unique individual will give parents the tools to help their children succeed academically and socially. This book has helped me gain a new approach to address my patient’s needs.

    Greg Arfsten M.D.Academy Park Pediatrics, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics-University of Colorado School of MedicinePresident, Uplift Internationale

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    Wired and Connected: Professional Endorsement Greg Arfsten M.D.

    by | January 17, 2022 | Book Endorsement | 0 Comments

    This book has helped me gain a new approach to address my patient’s needs.

    In this book, Craig Knippenberg combines his many years as a skilled child therapist with the latest in neurobehavioral science. This is presented in a manner that is helpful to physicians, educators, and most importantly parents of elementary school aged children. The insight to understand each child as a unique individual will give parents the tools to help their children succeed academically and socially. This book has helped me gain a new approach to address my patient’s needs.

    Greg Arfsten M.D. Academy Park Pediatrics, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics-University of Colorado School of Medicine President, Uplift Internationale

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    Wired and Connected: Professional Endorsement: Nicole Tartaglia MD

    by | January 17, 2022 | Book Endorsement | 0 Comments

    As a physician specializing in child development and behavior, I will recommend this book for parents who wish to broaden their understanding of their child’s behavior and learn tools to support their social and emotional development.  

    In “Wired and Connected,” Mr. Knippenberg integrates the science of brain development with his diverse and compassionate experiences in counseling and education to produce a guide that empowers parents to help their children develop emotional regulation, improve social skills, and build self-awareness.  Complex concepts related to brain functioning and neuroscience research are carefully explained with language and analogies that are easy to understand and help parents to conceptualize their child’s development and behavior.  With an understanding that children come with all different temperaments and unique strengths and weaknesses, this book provides tools for parents to provide a behavioral and emotional environment supportive of their individual child, including specific ideas and exercises for parents to use with children.   The chapters are littered with interesting examples, thoughtful anecdotes, relevant research, as well as humor and compassion.  As a physician specializing in child development and behavior, I will recommend this book for parents who wish to broaden their understanding of their child’s behavior and learn tools to support their social and emotional development.

     

    Nicole Tartaglia, MD, MS, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Developmental Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine

     

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