Best Parenting and Family Books
Conscious Autism Parenting
Rachna Malkani
Eight habits for looking after yourself and making sure your autistic child is the most wonderful gift in your life.
Uniquely Human
Barry M. Prizant
A different way of seeing autism, from a therapist who has spent forty years learning from autistic people rather than trying to fix them.
The Reason I Jump
Naoki Higashida
A thirteen-year-old autistic boy answers the questions parents ask most, in his own words.
NeuroTribes
Steve Silberman
The hidden history of autism, and why the people who saw it as difference rather than defect have been right all along.
The Explosive Child
Ross W. Greene
A tested approach for parents whose child's meltdowns have stopped making sense through ordinary discipline.
Divergent Mind
Jenara Nerenberg
For families discovering that autism rarely travels alone, and what that means for the whole household.
The Whole-Brain Child
Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
Twelve strategies, grounded in how a child's brain actually develops, for the moments parenting guides don't prepare you for.
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
The book generations of parents keep passing on, for getting through to a child who has stopped listening.
The Gardener and the Carpenter
Alison Gopnik
A philosopher and psychologist argues that parenting is not a job with a right answer, and why that's a relief.
Hunt, Gather, Parent
Michaeleen Doucleff
What parents around the world already know about raising calm, capable children, that Western parenting culture forgot to ask.
