Bringing up a family in the 21st century is nothing short of heroic! Life is unpredictable, complicated,  and at times, hard. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have a red-hot go at creating the kind of family we want and supporting our children to be their best.
As author and educator Lili-Ann Kriegler explains, the family can be viewed as a mettle foundry – a dynamic creative workshop, where we can use all the tools at our disposal to forge a resilient, cohesive and high functioning family unit.
From the moment of birth, through the different growth stages to adulthood, education and communication are the anvil for life success.
In this practical and inspiring book, you will learn the key areas of development for each age group – infants, toddlers, preschoolers, primary years’ children, and the tweens and teens. You will discover how to best support communication, arrange the environment and choose the activities that will enhance the potential of your children.
Roots and Wings is a philosophical vision of what parents and primary caregivers can do to create a family identity and culture to take on challenges and sustain a spirit of connection and joy.
No-one can predict the future, no-one can control all of life’s events, but the goal of this book is to give you the tools to inspire your family’s success. Read it and do all you can to forge a family with mettle!

Kriegler has a wealth of experience as both a parent and educator and the book draws on her life experience and reliable secondary research materials from a wide variety of sources.

As author and educator Lili-Ann Kriegler explains, the family can be viewed as a mettle foundry – a dynamic creative workshop, where we can use all the tools at our disposal to forge a resilient, cohesive and high functioning family unit. 

There are few parent books with advice and information related to the range of ages in Roots and Wings. And the educational advice offered is  specific to each age group.

Parents will be able to use this book as a reference for years  as they negotiate parenthood with their growing children.

Lili-Ann Kriegler, author of Roots and Wings is both an educator and a parent of two adult children, a son and a daughter. She has been at the coalface in both capacities. Her views and the advice she offers for consideration are informed by both her life journeys as a mother and a teacher. Besides her life experience, she offers ideas and information that is well founded on reputable secondary research.

Roots and Wings is founded on the idea that how parents engage with their children and how they talk to them are hugely important in their childrens life success. Kriegler encourages parents and primary caregivers to embrace the power they have to forge a unique and positive family culture rather than living out default cultures they may have inherited.  She  sees the family as a place where childrens identities are forged in relation to the quality of communication and learning they experience. This quality commences from the moment a child is born and continues throughout their childhood and youth.  Roots and Wings offers specific advice to optimise communication and education  for five different age groups:  infants, toddlers, preschoolers, primary years’ children, and the tweens and teens. Kriegler also shows the continuity of parental care and responsibilty across the ages. 

Roots and Wings gives parents a broad overview, but also the fine detail to support them in their parental journey.

Lili-Ann Kriegler will make every effort to promote her second book. She has several social media outlets and shares a podcast called: The Thinking Effect with Ortal Green. The links are below: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lili-ann-kriegler-7a7298199/ https://authory.com/kriegler-education https://www.amazon.com
When possible, Roots and Wings will be launched in both Sydney and Melbourne. 
Author Lili-Ann Kriegler has been writing for online and print media since the launch of her first book for educators: Edu-Chameleon. She is an advice blogger for Kiddipedia one of the foremost platforms for parent advice in Australia.
Lili-Ann Kriegler has several social media outlets and shares a podcast called: The Thinking Effect with Ortal Green. The links are below: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lili-ann-kriegler-7a7298199/ https://authory.com/kriegler-education https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B096ZPF4CK https://www.facebook.com/educhameleon https://kiddipedia.com.au/author/kriegler-education/ https://www.buzzsprout.com/1948281/10163697
Lili-Ann received a silver award from Reader Views in the US for her first book Edu-Chameleon which is a tribute to her detailed knowledge about child and teenage education and communication. 

REVIEW: Lili-Ann Kriegler’s book Roots and Wings contains powerful messages and practical advice on how to rear a family with mettle. Lili-Ann uses common sense, humour, anecdotes, quotes, learned educators’ studies, psychology and philosophy to illustrate the themes that the family is the foundry which supports the child from birth to adulthood and that education and communication are the anvils upon which successful lives can be shaped. The family with mettle is closely bonded, high-functioning, strong and resilient and each child within the family is likely to be able to achieve their fullest potential of his or her talents and interests. Lili-Ann writes eloquently and builds her arguments in a readable, easy to follow manner. Many of her messages can be applied not just in raising children but in all aspects of life. Do not delay your gratification! This is a book to read now. Jill Elias - Parent REVIEW: Lili-Ann Kriegler forges her place in the literary and arts world, through creating a performative foundry of metaphoric, poetic and pedagogical tools in her latest book, ‘Roots and Wings’. Novelist, Booker Prize winner, and Sydney Peace Prize awardee, Arundhati Roy, suggests we take our place in the world and are not given it. Through the pages of this compelling book, Lili -Ann draws on her experiences in the broad education field, to firmly take her own place and inspire others to do so. Dr Avis Ridgway Adjunct Research Associate, Faculty of Education, Monash University

REVIEW: Lili-Ann Kriegler’s book Roots and Wings contains powerful messages and practical advice on how to rear a family with mettle. Lili-Ann uses common sense, humour, anecdotes, quotes, learned educators’ studies, psychology and philosophy to illustrate the themes that the family is the foundry which supports the child from birth to adulthood and that education and communication are the anvils upon which successful lives can be shaped. The family with mettle is closely bonded, high-functioning, strong and resilient and each child within the family is likely to be able to achieve their fullest potential of his or her talents and interests. Lili-Ann writes eloquently and builds her arguments in a readable, easy to follow manner. Many of her messages can be applied not just in raising children but in all aspects of life. Do not delay your gratification! This is a book to read now.          Jill Elias - Parent

REVIEW: Lili-Ann Kriegler forges her place in the literary and arts world, through creating a performative foundry of metaphoric, poetic and pedagogical tools in her latest book, ‘Roots and Wings’. Novelist, Booker Prize winner, and Sydney Peace Prize awardee, Arundhati Roy, suggests we take our place in the world and are not given it. Through the pages of this compelling book, Lili -Ann draws on her experiences in the broad education field, to firmly take her own place and inspire others to do so. Dr Avis Ridgway     Adjunct Research Associate, Faculty of Education, Monash University

REVIEW: Lili-Ann Kriegler’s book Roots and Wings contains powerful messages and practical advice on how to rear a family with mettle. Lili-Ann uses common sense, humour, anecdotes, quotes, learned educators’ studies, psychology and philosophy to illustrate the themes that the family is the foundry which supports the child from birth to adulthood and that education and communication are the anvils upon which successful lives can be shaped. The family with mettle is closely bonded, high-functioning, strong and resilient and each child within the family is likely to be able to achieve their fullest potential of his or her talents and interests. Lili-Ann writes eloquently and builds her arguments in a readable, easy to follow manner. Many of her messages can be applied not just in raising children but in all aspects of life. Do not delay your gratification! This is a book to read now.          Jill Elias - Parent

REVIEW: Lili-Ann Kriegler forges her place in the literary and arts world, through creating a performative foundry of metaphoric, poetic and pedagogical tools in her latest book, ‘Roots and Wings’. Novelist, Booker Prize winner, and Sydney Peace Prize awardee, Arundhati Roy, suggests we take our place in the world and are not given it. Through the pages of this compelling book, Lili -Ann draws on her experiences in the broad education field, to firmly take her own place and inspire others to do so. Dr Avis Ridgway     Adjunct Research Associate, Faculty of Education, Monash University