Hold on to your kids

This book is about how to have a solid relationship with your children – which is essential for their development and behaviour, and effective parenting and discipline. It talks about how parents can lose the ability to influence their children, what harm that can do to development, and how to get things back on track. There’s also some insight into why this relationship is essential for getting your kids to listen to you – if you feel like you can’t guide your child any more then this is the book for you.

My favourite line from the book:  "You cannot feed someone who is not at your table".

Raising Human Beings

Well, that's a title that covers the total experience of parenting isn't it?!  This fantastic book is about creating a collaborative partnership with your child. And essentially what that means is jointly solving problems with your child. Problems can be anything from your kid not brushing their teeth to using their phone too much, to doing risky stuff with their friends!

The Invisible String

It’s a great book to introduce the concept of connection while people are apart, and the use of the string gives helps make the concept easy to understand. Kids from about age 4 can grasp the concepts – and although it’s a picture book kids of bigger ages will like it too.  I read this book early on with my kids, and even as they grew older they would refer to being connected by the string.

teachers/parents because there are many more suitable books in this guide. This is not a book I currently own but one I have used several times as a colleague of mine keeps a copy in our clinic. This is a great resource for working through emotional awareness, understanding, expression AND regulation. It is suitable for children and young teens.