What if the greatest influence on a child’s school success isn’t the classroom, but the conversation they hear at home?

The Breath of Life Workbook confronts a truth many avoid: a parent or guardian’s words can either equip a child for the world or wound them before they ever leave the house.

Drawing from lived experience as an educator, mentor, and observer of generational cycles, Santiego Rivers explores how unhealed adults can unintentionally become a child’s first bully, and how healing ourselves is the first step toward protecting our children.

This book challenges parents to examine the words spoken at night before bed and in the morning before school. It exposes the academic and emotional cost of verbal harm while offering practical, compassionate pathways toward speaking life instead of passing pain.

More than a parenting book, The Breath of Life is a call to reflection, accountability, and transformation. So, our children don’t have to recover from us before they can become who they were meant to be.