Leashes, Lessons, and Love begins with a familiar household teacher: the dog. Fern Weis uses that relationship as a way into questions about raising children and managing our own expectations.
The author’s description emphasizes parenting through connection, giving children room to take responsibility, and noticing gradual progress. The cross-species perspective supplies the organizing idea; the subject is the human work of guiding without trying to control everything.
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