"...this book...is nothing short of life-changing. It reaches inside and touches that heart-place where the child you were and the parent you always want to be, feels heard ...understood."

Robert Allen

Through healing stories, from her own childhood and over forty years of teaching and consulting,
Dr. Perrah shows parents how a few grounding principles can be powerful tools for living and parenting successfully.

"Her stories help us remember what it
felt like to be a child. [From her life experience, she shows] us how an orphaned child overcame the wounds of abandonment, ADD, neglect and fearful abuse. ...Taken to Heart is about the power of story to change hearts, heal wounds, and inspire hope for family wholeness."

Richard Paul Evans

Taken to Heart offers the gift
of awareness that we are
always free to "choose again"
a healing story.

Memoir / Parenting / Education

"Dr. Perrah's "Three-principled Approach to Proactive Parenting" is not a list of do's and don'ts, rather the understandings she offers help us perceive the meaning of childhood in a completely new way. ...My daughter is about to have her first child. Taken to Heart will be among the first gifts she receives."

Dr. Sam Crowell, Professor of Education
Author, The Re-Enchantment of Learning

"As a Marriage and Family Therapist I often hear parents express the wish that children came into the world with an instruction book. ...I will highly recommend this book to prospective parents and wish it had been written [when] I was raising my own children forty years ago."

Hendrika de Vries, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Santa Barbara, California

With the stress of so little free time, "quality time" with your precious child is priceless! What parent today has the luxury of time-off to learn better parenting practices? And yet, you care deeply: you want to give your child the best possible start in life, and you want to be the best parent you can be.

Take heart! This book was written with you in mind!

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Taken to Heart offers the gift of awareness that we are always free to "choose again" a healing story.

Advocate for the re-enchantment
of life, childhood and education through healing stories.

Anne S. Perrah is an internationally known educator, author of healing stories for children, mythographer, and President/Founder of Precious Child Enterprises.

Expertise: As a lifelong student, educator and parent Dr. Perrah has learned to live successfully with ADD, earning five advanced degrees culminating in a Ph.D. from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She owns and administrates a Montessori school in Cypress, California. For over forty years, she has been a mentor for aspiring teachers and a master teacher to three generations of students. Internationally known in the Montessori community, she has been a featured presenter at national and international educator conferences for several decades.