Parenting – Newborns upward

You are Your Child’s First Teacher, Rahima BaldwinThis book is widely considered an introduction and foundation to nurturing parenting. The author covers many aspects of child development from before birth and advocates the philosophies of Rudolf Steiner and the Waldorf parenting movement.
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Seven Times the Sun; Guiding Your Child Through the Rhythms of the Day by Shea DarianA one-of-a-kind book–full of ideas, reflections, and practical advice offering a fresh view of daily life in the home and family. Weaving songs, stories, family rituals, and verses throughout, mother and educator Shea Darian shows how to bring joy to such daily events as mealtimes, going to bed, chores, naps, and playtime.
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Circle Round-Raising Children in the Goddess Traditions, StarHawk,A one-of-a-kind resource for parents of many faiths and beliefs, this book encourages us to gently open our children’s awareness to the sacredness of life and our connection to the Earth. Lots of ideas for festivals, milestones, and celebrations as well as recipes, craft projects and stories.
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Hip Mama Survival Guide, Ariel GoreAdvice from the trenches on pregnancy, childbirth, clueless doctors, potty training, toddler avengers, domestic mayhem, and way more.
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The Mother Trip ; Ariel Gore, Ellen Forney (Illustrator)In her first book, outspoken urban mom Ariel Gore offered help for real-world mothers. In The Mother Trip, she gives her inspiration, encouragement, and moral support to unconventional moms. In these essays, she bashes the stereotype of the “good mother” and encourages readers to follow their instincts and redefine motherhood in their own terms.
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Breeder ; Ariel Gore (Editor), Bee Lavender (Editor), Dan Savage, jonn Thief, Jonny Thief (Illustrator)The third book by the Hip Mama Gang has mixed reviews – “The voices of mothers–the real in-the-trenches voices of mothers–always threaten the status quo. Tell the truth about your ambivalence, rage, and passion–whether about miscarriage, breast pumps, or (as profiled here) your welfare-avoidance job as a stripper–and watch the general public recoil. But as every mother knows, there is nothing more comforting than finding another woman who is willing to sit in your kitchen and share the honest-to-God truth about mothering.” – Amazon.
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Raising a Son, Don Elium & Jeanne Elium
In this society we often try to understand why we have the emotional problems we do. From infancy, this book explores specifically how our boys are treated, examining the relationship between parent and son and the far reaching effects of that relationship.
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Raising A Daughter, Don Elium & Jeanne EliumFollowing the huge success of Raising a Son, the Eliums now offer their expertise to the challenges of raising a daughter in today’s world of mixed messages and changing social attitudes. Step by step, the authors move through each developmental stage to create an indispensable guide for parents.
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Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent by Meredith F. SmallHow we raise our children differs greatly from society to society, with many cultures responding differently to such questions as how a parent should respond to a crying child, how often a baby should be nursed, and at what age a child should learn to sleep alone. Ethnopediatrics–the study of parents, children, and child rearing across cultures–is the subject of anthropologist Meredith F. Small’s thorough and fascinating book Our Babies, Ourselves.
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Reviving Ophelia ; Mary PipherWakeup call to the millions of people that are contributing to the deterioration of the teenage girl. Reviving Ophelia should definitely be read by every single young female and their parents. In fact, any person who cares about a teenage girl should read this novel.
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Attachment Parenting: Instinctive Care for Your Baby and Young Child by Katie Allison Granju, Betsy Kennedy (Contributor), William Sears (Introduction)Attachment to and dependency on parents… is a normal, healthy aspect of childhood and not something that needs to be discouraged.” This quote from Attachment Parenting: Instinctive Care for Your Baby and Young Child sums up the attitude behind the growing shift in many Western cultures toward a labor-intensive but arguably more rewarding, effective, and “natural” way to raise children
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100 Ways to Calm the Crying; Pinky Mckay
Buy from Amazon.co.ukParenting By Heart; Pinky McKayTwo great books for both sides of the Atlantic by this advocate of attachment parenting. Really great reading!

The Natural Child: Parenting From the Heart, Jan HuntJan Hunt presents a collection of the columns she has written for a Canadian parenting magazine, in her book: The Natural Child. These cover issues ranging from attachment parenting (co-sleeping, using a sling etc), discipline (‘loving guidence’), and home-schooling. She will take your breath away with her gentle wisdom, and intuition. She upholds the child as our teacher, and she generates a humble appreciation for life from a child’s viewpoint.
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The Fussy Baby Book; William SearsWilliam and Martha Sears, a pediatrician and a nurse, respectively, have written this book to provide guidance and support for parents of children who have high needs for comfort, feeding, and the like from birth. The authors cite both their own family experience and the stories of their patients and others. The guidance they provide flies in the face of parenting advice of the last several decades, but the positive results of high-touch, intensive, attachment parenting are evident.
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The Continum Concept; Jean LeidloffJean Liedloff, an American writer, spent two and a half years in the South American jungle living with Stone Age Indians. The experience demolished her Western preconceptions of how we should live and led her to a radically different view of what human nature really is. She offers a new understanding of how we have lost much of our natural well-being and shows us practical ways to regain it for our children and for ourselves.
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The Discipline Book; William Sears, Martha Sears.With focus on preventing behavior problems as well as managing them when they arise, the Searses offer clear, practical advice on everything parents need to know about disciplining young children. Believing that discipline starts at birth, the Sears’ discuss baby discipline, disciplining the toddler, mother-father roles in modern parenting, saying no, self-esteem as the foundation of good behavior, helping a child to express feelings, the constructive use of anger, good nutrition for good behavior, and sleep discipline.
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Loving Mama, Essays on Natural Parenting; Tiffany Palisi.This compilation of essays, written by over forty mothers, is a great choice for those who breastfeed, co-sleep, wear their babies, did not circumcise, eat organic, and love being a mother.
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