Parenting Books
Understanding 4-5-Year-Olds
Understanding 4-5-year-olds gives a thoughtful overview of the challenges that children face as they gradually move away from a strong attachment to their families and turn towards the wider world of... (more)
Understanding Your Baby
How do you decide whether to breast feed your baby and what are the emotions involved for mother and baby when the baby rejects a feed, or when breast feeding stops? What happens when a baby starts... (more)
Understanding 12-14-Year-Olds
Margot Waddell offers helpful advice to parents whose children have reached the turbulent teenage years. From conflict management to addressing issues of bullying, stealing and same-sex friendships,... (more)
Understanding 6-7-Year-Olds
This accessible book provides a wealth of information to help parents, educators and carers better relate to children at this exciting, yet demanding, stage of development. From the new-found sense... (more)
Finding Your Way with Your Baby: The Emotional Life of Parents and Babies
Finding Your Way with Your Baby explores the emotional experience of the baby in the first year, and that of the mother, father and other significant adults. It does so in a way that is deeply... (more)
Understanding Your One-Year-Old
How does a one-year-old's mind and personality develop and grow? How does your role as a parent change when your baby starts to walk, talk and really explore the world around her? How do you support... (more)
Understanding Your Three-Year-Old
What changes when a young child begins to leave toddler-hood behind him? How do you keep track of your childs good and bad experiences at nursery and kindergarten and support her through them? What... (more)
The Late Teenage Years: From Seventeen to Adulthood
The problems which the individual has to deal with in adolescence are qualitatively different from those of childhood; they are related in particular to the adolescent's reaction/responses to the... (more)
Understanding 8-9-year-olds
Understanding 8-9-Year-Olds describes how children grow and change as they move further away from reliance on home and family, out into the world of school and community. Children of this age develop... (more)
Understanding Your Two-Year-Old
What makes children in their 'terrible twos' behave as they do? How can parents decide when their child is ready for day care, and manage their child's transition to a trusted child minder? Lisa... (more)
Understanding 10-11-year-olds
Understanding 10-11-Year-Olds introduces the challenges that face children as they start to make their transition from childhood into adolescence. Children at this age begin to express independence... (more)
Understanding Your Young Child with Special Needs
Understanding Your Young Child with special needs" explores the developmental impact of disability on normal stages of child development, and examines the complex nature of the emotional bonds... (more)
The Positive Parenting Handbook: Developing happy and confident children
Drawing on Judy Hutchings many years of work with parents and children, The Positive Parenting Handbook is a concise, straightforward guide that offers simple solutions to daily dilemmas. The clear... (more)
Teen Mental Health in an Online World: Supporting Young People around their Use of Social Media Apps Gaming Texting and the Rest
This essential book shows practitioners how they can engage with teens' online lives to support their mental health. Drawing on interviews with young people it discusses how adults can have open and... (more)
Real Parenting for Real Kids: Enabling Parents to Bring Out the Best in Their Children
The essential guide to bringing out the best in your children. The Parent Practice team, led by Melissa Hood and Elaine Halligan, have been delivering positive parenting courses since 2004 designed... (more)
Parenting from the Inside Out - 10th Anniversary Edition: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive
Have you ever thought: "I can't believe I just said to my child the very thing my parents used to say to me! Am I destined to repeat the mistakes of my parents?" In Parenting from the Inside Out,... (more)
What Every Parent Needs to Know: Second Edition
An essential read for any parent, Dr Sunderland's bestselling What Every Parent Needs To Know explains what science can teach us about parenting. Covering everything from breastfeeding to brain... (more)
The Psychology of Babies: How Relationships Support Development from Birth to Two
This is an instructive and accessible account of the psychological development of children aged 0-2 years and how it can be supported by social relationships. The first two years are critical in a... (more)
The Nursery Age Child
This book aims to facilitate the understandings of nursery age children, that is, children around three, four and five years, and their parents. Children of these ages are particularly fascinating.... (more)
You and Your Mid-Adolescent
This is a book which seeks help those going through the process of mid-adolescence - either from the point of view of the adolescent or their families - it attends to the serious strains that may... (more)
Chasing Ideas: The Fun of Freeing Your Child's Imagination
"Chasing Ideas" shows parents of children aged 3 to 15 how to encourage them to explore ideas, think, judge, make decisions and communicate effectively and to develop these important life skills to... (more)
You and Your Toddler
A central theme of this book is the gradual process of separation between parents and toddlers and the growth of autonomy in them all. Jenny Stoker has written with clarity, sympathy and warmth about... (more)
Tweens: What to Expect and How to Survive - Understanding Your 8-12 Year Old
This ground-breaking book provides an examination of the new phenomenon of "tweens": children who maturing earlier, both physically and psychologically, and who are becoming increasingly... (more)
Therapeutic Parenting Essentials: Moving from Trauma to Trust
All families of children affected by trauma are on a journey, and this book will help to guide you and your family on your journey from trauma to trust. Sarah Naish shares her own experiences of... (more)
Emily Is Being Bullied What Can She Do?: A Story and Anti-Bullying Guide for Children and Adults to Read Together
Meet Emily. She is being bullied by a group of children at school. She describes how this makes her feel, think and act. Eventually, she finds ways to help herself and also realises that she can get... (more)
The Simple Guide to Understanding Shame in Children: What It Is and How to Help
What is shame? * How does it affect children? * How can adults help? The perfect starting point for any adult or carer working with children who have experienced shame, this guide provides... (more)
My Child's Different: The lessons learned from one familys struggle to unlock their sons potential
Elaine Halligan's My Child's Different: The lessons learned from one family's struggle to unlock their son's potential explores the enabling role that parents can play in bringing the best out of... (more)
I am the Parent Who Stayed: Joyfully parenting alone
Being The parent who stayed can be more beautiful than you ever imagined. It's hard to be left taking care of your family all by yourself. Parenting alone in the wake of domestic violence, intense... (more)
Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting an Intersex Child
When their daughter Rosie was born, Eric and Stephani Lohman found themselves thrust into a situation they were not prepared for. Born intersex - a term that describes people who are born with a... (more)
The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting: Strategies and Solutions
Therapeutic parenting is a deeply nurturing parenting style, and is especially effective for children with attachment difficulties, or who experienced childhood trauma. This book provides everything... (more)