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.

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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.

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The Reason I Jump

Naoki Higashida

A thirteen-year-old autistic boy answers the questions parents ask most, in his own words.

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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.

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The Explosive Child

Ross W. Greene

A tested approach for parents whose child's meltdowns have stopped making sense through ordinary discipline.

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Divergent Mind

Jenara Nerenberg

For families discovering that autism rarely travels alone, and what that means for the whole household.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Hunt, Gather, Parent

Michaeleen Doucleff

What parents around the world already know about raising calm, capable children, that Western parenting culture forgot to ask.

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