Parenting/Child Development

Last Updated: April 30, 2026

The Birth Book: An OB-GYN’s Guide to Demystifying Labor and Delivery by Dr. Jennifer Lincoln

Essential, empowering medical information and advice to help you prepare for your Labor and Delivery journey-from a leading OB-GYN and social media educator.

Punishment-Free Parenting: The Brain-Based Way to Raise Kids Without Raising Your Voice by Jon Fogel

In easily-digestible prose and with compassionate insight, Fogel offers moms and dads a clear path to their own wholeness as parents-from learning to recognize and name their own emotional triggers to responding to children with a more keen awareness of their developmental processes.

10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World: How Parents Can Stop Smartphones, Social Media, and Gaming From Taking Over Their Children’s Lives by Jean M. Twenge

A practical, research-based guide offering ten clear strategies to help parents raise resilient, independent kids amid today’s tech-driven world, addressing social media, screen time, and mental health with simple and effective rules for fostering balanced and healthy development.

Raising Loving Siblings: How to Stop the Fighting and Help Your Kids Connect by Jonathan Caspi, PhD

Sibling expert and family therapist Jonathan Caspi offers research-based insights and highly practical advice in this supportive, compassionate guide. Clear principles, dos and don’ts, and loads of stories give readers a fresh understanding of why siblings fight and what to do about it.

The Crucial Years: The Essential Guide to Mental Health & Modern Puberty in Middle Childhood (Ages 6-12) by Sheryl Gonzalez Ziegler

Dr. Sheryl Gonzalez Ziegler, a seasoned clinical psychologist and mother, highlights ways to foster resilience, encourage open communication, and build lasting connections during this crucial period.

Post-Traumatic Parenting: Break the Cycle and Become the Parent You Always Wanted to Be by Robyn Koslowitz, PhD

In this book, you’ll learn how to properly adjust your techniques and strategies, act in accordance with your defined parenting values, and, best of all, create your own survival strategies and flip them into your parenting superpower. Child psychologist Dr. Robyn Koslowitz directly explains exactly how every post-traumatic parent can reverse the damage from their own traumas and forge a strong, healthy relationship with their children.

Raising Calm Kids in a World of Worry: Tools to Ease Anxiety and Overwhelm by Ashley Graber, LMFT, and Maria Evans, LMFT

Psychotherapist and parent coach team Ashley Graber and Maria Evans show parents how to help their anxious children tame worry, build newfound confidence, and develop into joyful, resilient humans.

Parent Yourself First: Raise Confident, Compassionate kids by Becoming the Parent You Wish You’d Had by Bryana Kappadakunnel, LMFT

In Parent Yourself First, licensed family therapist Bryana Kappadakunnel argues that the secret to successful parenting is to UN-learn the unhealthy patterns you grew up with, so you can find a better way forward with your own children. Even if that means throwing out everything you think you know about raising a kid.

Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child: Your Guide to the Essential Systems, Services, and Supports by Kelley Coleman

The honest, relatable, actionable roadmap to the practicalities of parenting a disabled child, featuring personal stories, expert interviews, and the foundational information parents need to know about topics including diagnosis, school, doctors, insurance, financial planning, disability rights, and what life looks like as a parent caregiver.

The Bonus Family Handbook: The Definitive Guide to Co-Parenting and Creating Stronger Families by Jann Blackstone

The Bonus Family Handbook introduces readers to a completely new approach to co-parenting and blending families. It teaches even the most contentious parents and bonus parents how to work together in the name of their children, reinforcing collaborative co-parenting to help form a supportive, loving family.

How to Dungeon Master Parenting: A Guidebook for Gamifying the Child-Rearing Quest, Leveling Up Your Skills, and Raising Future Adventurers by Shelly Mazzanoble

You don’t have to know how to be a Dungeon Master to master parenting-just think like one. With candor, humor, and a dragon’s hoard of real-world tips, this “elf-help” guide is the perfect gift for the gamer, fantasy lover, or anyone with a sense of humor ready to master the role of a lifetime. Knowing your toddler’s alignment is half the battle! A little magic missile doesn’t hurt either. Babies may not come with rulebooks, but now their parents do

Dad Mode: 25 Ways to Connect With Your Children by Tal Eyre; illustrations by Bernardo Franc̦a

From author Tal Eyre, Dad Mode: 25 Ways to Connect with Your Children is the ultimate guidebook to jumpstarting Dad Mode and fostering an unbreakable connection with your child. Organized into bite-sized chapters, with action steps and a full-color illustration by Bernardo Fraṅa for each way, this book makes connection easy for dads in a hurry.

Parenting at Your Child’s Pace: The Integrative Pediatrician’s Guide to the First Three Years by Joel Warsh, MD, MSc

An evidence-based parenting book that combines conventional medicine with holistic practices and helps parents make informed decisions about their children’s health.

Raising Capable Kids: The 12 Habits Every Parent Needs Regardless of Their Child’s Label or Challenge by Deborah Winkling

A guide for parents to raising children who have been diagnosed as ‘different’ – written by a parent and expert in educational psychology, with guidance on how to understand your child’s strengths and challenges, set realistic and ambitious expectations and support and challenge them when needed.

Cooperative Co-Parenting for Secure Kids: The Attachment Theory Guide to Raising Kids in Two Homes by Aurisha Smolarski, LMFT

Discover how attachment theory can help you better understand yourself and your ex, improve your co-parenting skills, and raise happy, emotionally secure kids!