Parenting Books
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 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 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)
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 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)
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 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 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)
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)
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)
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)
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 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)
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)
Can You Help Me? A Guide for Parents
This book is based on common questions that parents have about their children and their relationships with the world at large. Drawing from his extensive experience as a child psychoanalyst (and as a... (more)
The Magic Years: Understanding and handling the problems of early childhood
The author takes the reader into the mind of the child, showing how he or she confronts the world and learns to cope with it. She discusses the problems at each stage of development and reveals the... (more)
We Need to Talk: A Straight-Talking Guide to Raising Resilient Teens
How do you talk to your teen when their only focus is the screen in front of them? How do you help them to build a core of self-esteem in a world obsessed with appearances? In this empathetic, down... (more)
Digital Kids: How to Balance Screen Time, and Why it Matters
For many children and teens daily Internet use is the norm - but where should we draw the line when it comes to digital media usage? This handy book lays out the essential information needed to... (more)
Mindful Parenting: A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners
Despite its inherent joys, parenting can be challenging and stressful. When a parent or child suffers from a mental health issue, these difficulties multiply. Designed for use by clinicians, this... (more)
Your Baby is Speaking to You: A Visual Guide to the Amazing Behaviours of Your Newborn and Growing Baby
From an international expert on infant-parent communication, Your Baby Is Speaking To You is destined to become a parenting classic. Through intimate access to babies and their families, Dr Kevin... (more)
The Essential First Year: What Babies Need Parents to Know
This is a new research-based guide to baby-care from the world-renowned authority on child development, Penelope Leach, the expert who transformed the way we raise children. Penelope Leach draws on... (more)
The 5 to 10 Year-Old Child
The fifth birthday represents an important landmark in a child's development. He is now ready to start full-time primary school, and we no longer speak of a baby or a little child; instead, we refer... (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)
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)
The Social Baby: Understanding Babies' Communication from Birth
New in paperback. Designed to help interpret the subtle language of the newborn baby and through this to understand the baby's capabilities and individuality. This knowledge helps to encourage a more... (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)
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)
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)
Twins and Multiple Births: The Essential Parenting Guide from Pregnancy to Adulthood
Having more than one baby at once can test the endurance of even the most calm and experienced parents. This inspiring and enlightening parenting guide, by a practising GP and mother of twins, will... (more)