Parenting Books To Explore

Parenting Approaches

• Peaceful Parenting: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting. By Laura Markham
• The Dolphin Way: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Health Happy and Motivated Kids Without Turning into a Tiger. By Shimi Kang
• The Mindful Child: How to Help Your Kid Manage Stress and Become Happier, Kinder and More Compassionate. By Susan Kaiser Greenland
• The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children. By Ross Greene

Communication (with Children)

• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk. By Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
• Calm Parents, Happy Siblings: How to Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life. By Laura Markham
• The Art of Roughhousing: Good Old-Fashioned Horseplay and Why Every Kid Needs It. By Anthony DeBenedet & Lawrence Cohen

Parenting Books – Babies

• The Happiest Baby on the Block. By Harvey Karp
• The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby From Birth To Age Two. By William Sears & Martha Sears
• The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night. By Elizabeth Pantley
• The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems: By Teaching You How to Ask the Right Questions. By Tracy Hogg & Melinda Blau

Mindfulness And Parenting

• Mindful Motherhood: Practical Tools for Staying Sane During Pregnancy and Your Child’s First Years. By Cassandra Vieten

Parenting Books – Children

Understanding Emotions

• Visiting Feelings. By Lauren Rubenstein
• When I Feel Sad. By Cornelia Spelman
• When I Feel Scared. By Cornelia Spelman
• When I Feel Worried. By Cornelia Spelman
• When I Feel Angry. By Cornelia Spelman
• When I Feel Jealous. By Cornelia Spelman
• When I Miss You. By Cornelia Spelman
• Calm Down Time. By Elizabeth Verdick

Separation/Anxiety

• You Were The First. By Patricia MacLachlin
• The Kissing Hand. By Audrey Penn

Mindfulness

• A Thought is a Thought. By Nikki Hedstrom, Megan Price, et al.
• The Want Monsters: And How They Stopped Ruling My World. By Chelo Manchego
• Sitting Still Like a Frog: Mindfulness Exercises for Kids (and their Parents). By Eline Snel

Understanding Divorce

• I Don’t Want to Talk about It: A Story about Divorce for Young Children. By Jeanie Franz Ransom & Kathryn Kunz Finney
• Dinosaurs Divorce. By Marc Brown & Laurie Krasny Brown
• Why Do Families Change?: Our First Talk About Separation and Divorce. By Dr. Jillian Roberts & Cindy Revell

Impulse Control

• What Were You Thinking?: Learning to Control Your Impulses. By Bryan Smith & Lisa Griffin

Growth Mindset

• Your Fantastic Elastic Brain: Stretch It, Shape It. By JoAnn Deak & Sarah Ponce

Bodies, Boundaries, Sexuality

• My Body Belongs To Me. By Jill Starishevsky
• It’s Perfectly Normal. By Robbie Harris
• Sex is a Funny Word. By Cory Silverberg

Mindfulness/Self-Compassion

• When Things Fall Apart. By Pema Chodron
• Self-Compassion. By Kristen Neff
• Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life. By Steven Hayes

Empathic Communication/Relationships

• Modern Family: Phil Dunphy on Empathy
• Inside Out: Sadness Comforting Bing Bong
• Brene Brown: Empathy Versus Sympathy
• Brene Brown: Blame

Mindfulness/Meditation

• Meditation 101
• Headspace: Meditation | Monkey Mind

Sexuality

• Emily Nagoski: How Couples Sustain a Strong Sexual Connection for a Lifetime
• Emily Nagoski: Confidence and Joy are the Key to a Great Sex Life

Self-Regulation

• Don’t Expect to Stay Calm, Stay Connected – Lisa Dion Webinar
• Regulating Through the Coronavirus Part 1 – Lisa Dion Webinar
• Regulating Through the Coronavirus Part 2: Working through Exhaustion, Burnout and Compassion Fatigue – Lisa Dion Webinar

Podcasts

Self-Regulation

• Polyvagal What? That Relationship Show Polyvagal Mapping with Deb Dana

Sexuality

• Emily Nagoski: Come As You Are Podcast

Stress/Burnout

• Unlocking Us Brene Brown with Emily and Amelia Nagoski on Burnout and How to Complete the Stress Cycle

Disordered Eating

• Let Us Eat Cake: Disordered Eating

• Websites & Blogs

  Parenting

  • www.ahaparenting.com
  • www.themindfulparent.org
  • www.handinhandparenting.org
  • www.creativechild.com
  • www.compassionateparenting.com

  Mindfulness/Self-Compassion

  • www.pemachodronfoundation.org
  • www.self-compassion.org
  • www.compassionatemind.co.uk
  • www.tarabrach.com
  • www.shambhala.com/sittingstilllikeafrog
  • www.brenebrown.com
  • www.kristyarbon.com

  Marriage & Relationships

  • www.drsuejohnson.com
  • www.gottman.com
  • www.estherperel.com

  Self-Regulation

  • www.rhythmofregulation.com (Deb Dana)

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