Recommended Books

 Disclaimer First!  =)

Before you look at the list of books below, know that I actually don’t recommend many books for parents to read. I know, very un-educator of me. But my experience is that there are SO many books on how to parent, all with very different opinions on the “right” way to do it, that it often just confuses parents even more. 

 Actually, some recent research has been coming out supporting the fact that self-help-type books, particularly parnting books, actually DO generally do more harm than good, leading to confusion, misinterpretations and practices that can actually, in some cases, leave the individual worse off than when they started.

 

So, let me read the books for you, eliminate your confusion, and teach you how to be a great parent without all the book reading.  =)

This doesn’t mean I don’t believe in books at all.  There ARE some great books out there that I won’t hesitate to recommend.  For example, I highly recommend (practically require) all my faith-based parents read Grace Based Parenting.  It’s a book I would have written if  Tim Kimmel hadn’t beat me to it.

I also added the negotiation books because good anger regulation and problem solving skills are essential for being an effective parent.  And these are great easy reads that are able to go deeper than my usual workshops allow me to do.

Now that’s out of the way, here’s the list you were looking for:

Grace Based Parenting  Dr. Tim Kimmel

Getting to Yes  Fisher, Ury, Patton and Patton

The Power of a Positive No  William Ury

Love and Logic  (recommended as a supplement to your parenting but not your complete parenting approach)

Outliers  Malcolm Gladwell (not a parenting book per se, but a book I think all parents will find interesting in how it can relate to their parenting)

I will continue to add more for you.  Keep checking back.