Broken Sessions: When Parenting Advice Does More Harm Than Good to Your Family Connection

There comes a point when the advice meant to strengthen your family leaves hairline cracks instead-when the rules, routines, and "expert" tips start drowning out the very connection you're trying to protect. Broken Sessions steps into that fragile space, exposing the quiet damage done when parenting guidance forgets the heart behind the home. Neriah Sorn peels back the polished surface of conventional parenting wisdom to reveal what happens when it's followed without question: bonds stretched thin, trust eroded, and a household that feels more like a checklist than a sanctuary.
This book isn't an attack on guidance-it's a lifeline for parents who sense that doing everything "right" has started to feel wrong. With sharp clarity and a deeply compassionate lens, the book explores how well-meaning advice can unintentionally create distance instead of closeness. It shows how rigid rules can silence intuition, how performance-based parenting can leave kids misunderstood, and how the constant pressure to get it "perfect" can chip away at the relationship that matters most. Readers will gain the ability to spot when outside advice is shaping their parenting more than their own instincts.
They'll learn how to filter guidance without losing their voice, how to shift from compliance to connection, and how to rebuild a family dynamic rooted in trust rather than tactics. Sorn lays out practical ways to repair bonds frayed by over-structured parenting, offering strategies that prioritize emotional safety over external approval. This book doesn't dismiss every parenting framework. Instead, it offers a powerful recalibration-a way to use tools without letting them take over the relationship you're building with your children.
It helps parents step back from the noise and hear what their family truly needs, even when it looks different from the advice being handed to them. Through honest insight and grounded steps, Broken Sessions gives readers the confidence to lead with their own values, create space for authentic connection, and raise kids who feel seen instead of managed. It reminds parents that the strongest family systems aren't built from perfect advice but from imperfect love that stays close, even when the world tells you to step back and follow the rules. What this book offers is not another method, but permission to trust yourself again.
It's about dismantling the pressure to perform parenting and returning to the messy, beautiful work of building a relationship that lasts far beyond any session, script, or checklist. For every parent who has ever wondered if the "right way" is costing them the bond they long for, this is the roadmap back to what truly matters.