Parenting is one of the most beautiful as well as challenging too. Parents have millions of questions regarding their children growth, development and behavior. Sometimes we seek guide to do the best for our child. And there comes the need of parenting books. There are plenty of parenting books in the market, and it will be a great confusion to select which one is good for you. Here in this article I have listed 10 best parenting books that can surely be a guide to your parenting journey.
Here are the 10 Best Parenting Books of all all time :-
1) The Whole Brain Child : 12 Revolutionary Strategies To Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind
By Daniel J. Siegel , Tina Payne Bryson
The authors being a neuropsychriatist and parenting expert, had included a good amount of brain science in the book. The book consists of 12 key strategies that help to boost healthy brain development in children. This book helps parents to find the path to have a calmer and happier child. It explains the brain development of child and how their emotions rule over logic.
No surprise that kids throw tantrums or cry but there are ways to deal with child’s brain development. And this book includes age-appropriate strategies to deal with day to day challenges of parenting. The Whole Brain Child shows the way to develop healthy emotional and mental development that will help them to lead a balanced life.
You may like to read : 10 Ways To Improve Cognitive Development In Preschoolers
2) How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (The How To Talk Series)
By Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
You can name this book as parenting bible. The book is all about positive and effective communication with parents. Experts had shared knowledge about how to subsidize your child’s anger and frustration in positive way and develop self discipline. This book includes ways to deal with your child’s negative feelings and how to develop healthy relationship with children. The How To Talk Series is one of the best book of New York Times best selling books. Readers have acclaimed that this will help to resolve family conflicts peacefully. So that parenting can be less stressful and more rewarding.
3) Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids : How To Stop Yelling And Start Connecting (The Peaceful Parent Series)
By Laura Markham
The author had shared a very simple yet most effective approach towards parenting. This book is a perfect guide to raise a responsible, capable and happy child. The main motto of the book is to foster emotional connection with your child that lasts forever. If you are tired of tantrums and yelling then read this book and get step by step solutions to deal with children’s anxiety in a positive way. Peaceful parent, Happy Kids book will guide you to discover the practical tools to transform your challenging parenting to positive parenting.
4) No Drama Discipline : The Whole Brain Way To Calm The Chaos And Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind
By Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson
A must reading book for parenting. No Drama Discipline help parents to understand the link between child’s neurological development and parents way of reacting to those behaviors. The book is the road map to know the way to connect with your child. It gives the solution to turn their meltdowns to opportunity to better development. The book guides you how to have a constructive conversation with your child in a calm and loving manner. It also includes twenty discipline mistakes even the best parents make and suggestions to work on them.
You may like to read : Self Regulation In Preschoolers – Activities and More
5) Siblings Without Rivalry – How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
By Adele Faber , Elaine Mazlish
The authors took their notice to one of the most vital problem of parenting i.e sibling rivalry. No parents want their children to be enemies. This book shares the ways to deal with sibling conflicts. You can get practical tools to deal with sibling competition and fights. Authors share their own life experiences and explain how and when to interfere in fights. The book covers everything you need to know about siblings rivalry.
6) The Happiest Baby On The Block
By Harvey Karp M.D.
This is one of the best parenting books for expecting parents who wished to have soothing home for their new born from day one. The author shares you the secret of how to make babies happy. By an intense research on modern science and ancient wisdom, the author of the book, Dr karp has shared that there are four basic principles that are important to understand babies:- 1) The Missing Fourth Trimester 2) The Calming Reflex 3) The 5 “S’s” 4) The Cuddle Cure .
This book will be a rescue for new parents. It has the answers to many challenging questions of parents like , what is colic? Why babies are upset more during evenings? How can a parent calm a baby? How to get longer hours of sleep for babies?
7) Simplicity Parenting : Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
By Kim John Payne , Lisa M. Ross
Simplicity Parenting has to be there in the list of best parenting books. This book is for parents of this fast and busy world with little time. The motto of this book is to teach how to give a simple life to your children to reduce the stress and anxious behavior of them. The book is all about ideas and new change to parenting style that leads to more grace in life. No doubt the book will give you the art of having intervals of peace and establishing a strong connection with your child.
You may like to read : 5 Steps To Positive Parenting
8) Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, And Energetic
By Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
Raising Your Spirited Child gives you the strategies and ways to manage kids through real life experiences. It is very challenging for parents to manage strong-willed kids. These kids are very sensitive and intense. The book is guide for parents to understand child’s temperaments. It helps to deal with children’s tantrums and how to instill positivity in the place of negativity. One bonus point of this parenting book is that it shares ways to deal with sibling rivalry, mealtimes, bedtimes and holidays.
9) How to Raise an Adult
By Julie Lythcott-Haims
A must read book for every parents who want to raise a self-sufficient kids. In this world of helicopter parenting, it is very necessary for parents to understand that they are responsible for the upbringing of the next generation. How to raise an adult gives you the strategies to develop self-sufficient pre-teens and teens. Lythcott Haims offers practical solutions of how to avoid unnecessary helping your child. And alternative solutions to build resilience and determined. In brief, this book is all about of having next generation who can take charge of their own lives with confidence and positivity.
10) All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
By Jennifer Senior
All joy no fun have to be there in the queue of best parenting books due to its unique topic that has been discussed in the book. It is not that only parents shape their child future but children also reshape their parent’s life. The book has make us believe that children deepen and add purpose to our lives. And the book also shifted its focus on parenthood from parenting keeping in view the basic cultures about parenthood.
