Playful Parenting
10 best books like Playful Parenting (Lawrence J. Cohen): The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive, Parenting From the Inside Out, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting, No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame, Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason, The Attachment Parenting Book: A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby, The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
| Author | La Leche League International |
| ISBN | 0452285801 |
This book is great for helping new moms get the hang of latching and positioning. That's about it.
Most moms work and many of those moms work full-time, so having an entire chapter of a breastfeeding book devoted to advocating that women NOT work is unsupportive, misogynistic and completely...
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive
| Author | Daniel J. Siegel |
| ISBN | 0553807919 |
Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Your fifth-grader sulks on the bench instead of playing on the field. Do children conspire to make their parents’ lives endlessly challenging? No—it’s just their developing brain calling the shots!
In...
| Author | Daniel J. Siegel |
| ISBN | 1585422959 |
How many parents have found themselves thinking: I can't believe I just said to my child the very thing my parents used to say to me! Am I just destined to repeat the mistakes of my parents? In Parenting from the Inside Out, child psychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and early childhood expert Mary Hartzell,...
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
| Author | Adele Faber |
| ISBN | 0380811960 |
Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know-how you need to be effective with your children. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down--to--earth, respectful approach of Faber and Mazlish makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful...
Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting
| Author | Laura Markham |
| ISBN | 0399160280 |
A groundbreaking guide to raising responsible, capable, happy kids
Based on the latest research on brain development and extensive clinical experience with parents, Dr. Laura Markham’s approach is as simple as it is effective. Her message: Fostering emotional connection with your...
No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain Child and The Yes Brain tackle the ultimate parenting challenge: discipline.
Highlighting the fascinating link between a child's neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior, No-Drama Discipline...
No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame
| Author | Janet Lansbury |
| ISBN | 1499351119 |
Janet Lansbury is unique among parenting experts. As a RIE teacher and student of pioneering child specialist Magda Gerber, her advice is not based solely on formal studies and the research of others, but also on her twenty years of hands-on experience guiding hundreds of parents and their toddlers....
| Author | Alfie Kohn |
| ISBN | 0743487486 |
Most parenting guides begin with the question "How can we get kids to do what they're told?" — and then proceed to offer various techniques for controlling them. In this truly groundbreaking book, nationally respected educator Alfie Kohn begins instead by asking "What do kids need — and how can...
| Author | William Sears |
| ISBN | 0316778095 |
America's foremost baby and childcare experts, William Sears M.D. and Martha Sears, R.N., explain the benefits--to both you and your child--of connecting with your baby early.
Might you and your baby both sleep better if you shared a bed? How old is too old for breastfeeding? What is a father's...
| Author | Robert W. Sears |
| ISBN | 0316017507 |
With the spate of publicity surrounding the possible health risks posed by childhood immunization, parents are no longer simply following doctor's orders and automatically having their children vaccinated. Instead, they are asking questions. The problem is the search for answers only leads parents...
The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night
| Author | Elizabeth Pantley |
| ISBN | 0071381392 |
A breakthrough approach for a good night's sleep--with no tears
There are two schools of thought for encouraging babies to sleep through the night: the hotly debated Ferber technique of letting the baby "cry it out," or the grin-and-bear-it solution of getting up from dusk to dawn as often...
Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
| Author | Adele Faber |
| ISBN | 0393342212 |
Already best-selling authors with How to Talk So Kids Will Listen Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish turned their minds to the battle of the siblings. Parents themselves, they were determined to figure out how to help their children get along. The result was Siblings Without Rivalry....
Parenting With Love and Logic
| Author | Foster W. Cline |
| ISBN | 1576839540 |
I bought this book, as well as 4 other parenting books, so that I could compare a bunch of different theories and techniques and decide what spoke to me.
I found it interesting and there was plenty that was useful, however there was a lot that I didn't agree with. I think that there are a lot of responses...
The Five Love Languages of Children
| Author | Gary Chapman |
| ISBN | 1881273652 |
This book is brilliant! Beyond the fact that this is a book about how to love your child in the way that he or she best identifies and recognizes as love...because that alone is a smart and beautiful undertaking, this book begins by introducing the concept of learning to speak your child's love language...
Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
| Author | Kim John Payne |
| ISBN | 0345507975 |
Today’s busier, faster, supersized society is waging an undeclared war . . . on childhood. As the pace of life accelerates to hyperspeed–with too much stuff, too many choices, and too little time–children feel the pressure. They can become anxious, have trouble with friends and school, or even...
The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two
The "baby bible" of the post-Dr. Spock generation, already embraced by hundreds of thousands of American parents, has now been revised, expanded, and brought thoroughly up-to-date -- with the latest information on everything from diapering to day care, from midwifery to hospital birthing rooms,...
Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child
| Author | John M. Gottman |
| ISBN | 0684838656 |
Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child is John Gottman’s groundbreaking guide to teaching children to understand and regulate their emotional world.
Intelligence That Comes from the Heart
Every parent knows the importance of equipping children with the intellectual skills...
Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings: How to Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life
| Author | Laura Markham |
| ISBN | 0399168451 |
Popular parenting expert Dr. Laura Markham, author of PEACEFUL PARENTS, HAPPY SIBLINGS, has garnered a large and loyal readership around the world, thanks to her simple, insightful approach that values the emotional bond between parent and child. As any parent of more than one child knows, though,...
