Best Books on parenting

Best Books on parenting: Parenting is one the most crucial things for shaping a child’s future. Be it the ethics, morals, mannerisms, habits and even personality traits. Bad parenting or negligence in parenting can lead to serious issues, traumas, and disturbing personality traits. This will not only affect the child’s future and adulthood but it may also cause problems for the family and society. Parenting isn’t just about pampering or discipline, its a lot more. Especially in Today’s busy and tech driven lifestyle, parents need to be more particular about their parenting process.

The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read

Philippa Perry’s book “The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read” is a wonderful book for parenting. This best selling Sunday times book is written by the renowned psychotherapist Perry, who, in this book reveals the vital dos and don’ts of a relationship. The best part about this book is that it’s not only about the child, but also about the partner. While parenting, we often look at the child’s problem only and try to deal with it separately, but we forget that both the parents and the child are a team which needs to function together and compliment each other.

The book gives some judgement free advice and provides great formulas or resources, for managing & understanding the child’s emotions, urges, feelings. And with that, it also tells how to support your partner in the process of doing so. “The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read” is a holistic book when it comes to parenting.

Raising Good Humans

We all know kids learn from their surroundings and they love to impersonate people, especially their parents. Our reaction, good or bad, becomes their ideal way to deal with things. And oftentimes unknowingly and without noticing we train our kids in the wrong way. More than our preachings and guidelines, our behaviour in public and reactions to situations shape up the kids basic intellect of dealing with people and situations.

Hunter Clarke’s “Raising good humans: A mindful guide to breaking the cycle of reactive parenting and raising kids, confident kids” beautifully tells how our small reactions & actions can bring big changes in the child’s parenting. Raising Good Humans tells us how to break our reactive autopilot patterns in public or while dealing with stressful situations. The book provides ways to deal with the same situations with little compassion and kindness. This will eventually result in children becoming better by seeing and learning good things from their parents’ approach in life. 

All You Need is Love: The Art of Mindful Parenting

Next on the list is a book by Shelja Sen, a therapist and writer. She’s also the co-founder of an institute “Children First”, which works for child and adolescent mental health. Eastern and Western society and parenting are a lot different. The book also gives us an insight into what most children usually go through in eastern culture. Where parental pressure is far beyond when it comes to imposing their dreams and aspirations on the children. It may be for their good and most parents think about their children’s well-being and growth.

But most of the time we forget the basics of well-being and happiness. And are driven more towards dreams, aspirations, studies and push the child more into it without understanding the capabilities, the nature of the child. Every child is unique, with different sets of abilities and likings. We should accept the child the way they are rather than comparing them or pushing them towards something that we think is success. But this societal success is nothing more than a burden that many times leads the children into mental trauma, depression, and pushes them away from the society and family. In this book. Shelja Sen formulas, five anchors of parenting that will help you a lot.

No-Drama Discipline 

The New York Times Bestseller author’s “No-Drama Discipline” is a masterpiece in parenting. The book gives insights and understanding of a child’s nueo development’s link with parents’ reaction. Usually parents and teachers think discipline is the best way to construct a child’s good habits which will eventually lead to a better future. But in many cases parents push it too much or at times don’t realize that the discipline is sucking the child’s innocence and wellbeing. “No-Drama Discipline” gives us a road map of how to cope with trauma, tension, tears and issues of the child without shouting, punishing and creating a scene.

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