The United Nations started emphasizing family-related issues in the 1980s, which prompted the Commission for Social Development to adopt a resolution in 1983 to increase public awareness of family needs. The Ge,neral Assembly then proclaimed 1994 to be the International Year of the Family and instituted the International Day of Families on May 15, 1993. To honor parents everywhere, the General Assembly declared June 1st, 2012, to be the Global Day of Parents.
Top 5 Books
1. The 5 principles of parenting: your essential guide to raising good humans
Author: Aliza Pressman (Author)
Summary: Drawing on nearly twenty years’ experience, a developmental psychologist, providing expert advice and strategies, helps parents chart a manageable course for raising good humans that’s aligned with their own values and their children’s unique temperaments
Print Book: English, 2024
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Simon Element, New York, 2024
Physical Description: xx, 346 pages; 24 cm
Subjects covered: Child rearing; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting; Informational works; Instructional and educational works; Parent and child; Parenting.
Content: The science of child development
- Part one: The forest through the trees: Clearing away the noise; five parenting practices and five teachable skills to set up your child for resilience; What makes a good human? Raising good parents Foundations for strong relationships; Parent the kid you have; Perfect parenting is the enemy of good parenting; The delight lab.
- Part two: From page to stage. Eat, poop, and love: The science of sleep; A disciplined approach to discipline; Common points of conflict; Your child in the outside world; Friends and siblings; Transitions big and small; The screen-time generation; Sex, gender, and sexuality; Finding your middle road.
2. Nolo’s Essential Guide to child custody & support
Author: Emily Doskow (Author)
Summary: When you’re getting divorced, you can make a tough time easier for your children (and yourself) if you work with the other parent to draw up a custody plan and agree on child support. Doskow shows you how negotiation and mediation can keep costs down; where to find your state’s child support guidelines; how to enforce and change custody and support orders; what military families need to know, and much more.
Print Book: English, 2024
Edition: 6th edition
Publisher: Nolo, El Segundo, California, 2024
Physical Description: 370 pages; 23 cm
Subjects Covered: Child custody; Custody of children; Custody of children United States Popular works Divorce, Divorce suits; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS; Divorce & Separation; Handbooks and Manuals; LAW; Family Law; Children.
Contents: Introduction: Your child custody and support companion:
- Basics of divorce
- Basics of child custody
- Basics of child support
- When you decide to divorce: the first month
- Avoiding a custody or support trial: alternatives to court
- Dealing with the court: paperwork and court hearings
- Going to trial
- Custody orders: living with, enforcing, and changing them
- Child support orders: living with, enforcing, and changing them
- Worst case scenarios: kidnapping, abuse, and interference with custody
- Custody and support in military families
- The law: how to work with a lawyer and do you own legal research
3. Everything no one tells you about parenting a disabled child: your guide to the essential systems, services, and supports
Author: Kelley Coleman (Author)
Summary: “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. For parents of disabled children, navigating the systems, services, and supports is a daunting, and often overwhelming, task. No one explains to parents how to figure out the complex medical, educational, and social service systems essential to their child’s success. Over and over, parents are being asked to reinvent the exact same wheels. According to the CDC, “Every 4 1/2 minutes a baby is born with a birth defect in the United States.” That’s 1 in 33. There’s no handbook for how to do this. Presented with empathy and humor, Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child: Your Guide to the Essential Systems, Services, and Supports gives parents the tools to conquer the stuff, so that they can spend less time filling out forms, and more time loving their children exactly as they are. With over a decade of experience navigating these systems for her own child, author Kelley Coleman presents key information, templates, and wisdom alongside practical advice from over 40 experts, covering topics such as diagnosis, working with your medical team, insurance, financial planning, disability rights and advocacy, and individualized education plans. Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child gives parents the tools they need to stop wasting unnecessary time, money, and stress. If you need to know how to actually do the things, this book is for you”– Provided by publisher
Print Book: English, 2024
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Hachette Go, New York City, 2024
Physical Description: 291 pages: illustrations; 22 cm
Subjects Covered: Child rearing; Children with disabilities Services for Disabilities Children; Children with Special Needs; Children’s Health; Parents of children with disabilities.
Contents: Introduction
- Everything no one tells you about getting comfortable with disability
- Everything no one tells you about diagnosis
- Everything no one tells you about working with your medical team
- Everything no one tells you about therapies
- Everything no one tells you about insurance and government benefits
- Everything no one tells you about individualized education programs (IEPs)
- Everything no one tells you about school
- Everything no one tells you about disability rights and advocacy
- Everything no one tells you about financial planning and future care plans
- Everything no one tells you about inclusion in your community
- Everything no one tells you about what this looks like for you as a parent and caregiver
- Conclusion.
4. Parenting the strong-willed child: the clinically proven five week program for parents of two- to six-year-olds
Authors: Rex L. Forehand (Author), Deborah J. Jones (Author), Nicholas Long (Author)
Summary: The clinically proven five-week program for improving your child’s behavior–fully updated and revised. In 1996, parenting the Strong-Willed Child established itself as a seminal guide for parents who want to manage challenging behavior with parenting techniques grounded in positive reinforcement, without yelling or harming a child’s self-esteem. The authors provide a proven, step-by-step five-week program giving parents the tools they need to successfully build upon their child’s strengths while effectively managing challenging behavior. Packed with brand-new content, this fourth edition has been thoroughly updated to integrate state-of-the-field scientific and clinical advances, providing a timely and thorough response to the current issues facing parents of young children. It addresses important new topics, including: Understanding parenting and child behavior in context, including effects of the global pandemic, racial disparities, financial strain, and other parenting challenges; Greater opportunities for parents to learn proven parenting skills for challenging child behaviors such as noncompliance, whining, and tantrums; Help for parents to apply new skills to the specific problem behaviors they are facing; Strategies for linking the five-week program skills to common parenting challenges, including screen time; Understanding how the proven five-week program can help parents of children with ADHD given advances in science and clinical practice in this area; The importance of parent self-care as they learn the program. Improve the life of your child–and yourself–with valuable lessons and science-backed advice that has helped a generation of parents raise happy, healthy children.
Print Book: English, 2024
Edition: Expanded 4th edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, New York, 2024
Physical Description: xxiv, 334 pages; 23 cm
Subjects Covered: Child rearing; Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD-ADHD); Children with Special Needs; Learning Disabilities; Life Stages -School Age; Parenting – Fatherhood; Parenting – Motherhood; Problem children Behavior modification.
5. The Mediatrician’s guide: a joyful approach to raising healthy, smart, kind kids in a screen-saturated world
Authors: Michael Rich (Author), Teresa Barker (Author)
Summary:” Dr. Michael Rich, dubbed the ‘Mediatrician’ thanks to his acclaimed work as a pediatrician, child health researcher, and children’s media specialist, offers a science-backed approach to give parents the confidence they need to raise a child well (and to raise a good child) in the digital age.” — Publisher annotation.
Print Book: English, 2024
Publisher: Harper Horizon, [Nashville, TN], 2024
Physical Description: xxiv, 403 pages: illustrations; 24 cm
Subjects covered: Child care & upbringing; Internet and children; Mass media and children; Parenting; Social media.
Contents: Introduction: growing up digital, and parenting those who do
- Raising children well in a world of screens: model, mentor, monitor
- What is digital wellness? The whole-child approach to healthy media use
- Hungry brains: wired by curiosity, driven to connect
- Lonely hearts: social and emotional development in the digital age
- What’s love got to do with IT? Virtual connection, physical intimacy
- The teachable moment: all media are educational, what is your child learning?
- Insidious influencers, consuming passions: when persuasive messaging and personalities turn toxic
- A more perfect me: body image through a glass darkly
- Wirelessly wired: media influence on tobacco, vaping, alcohol, and other substance use
- Lessons in fear and loathing: violent media, aggression, and anxiety
- Virtually hooked: problematic interactive media use (PIMU)
- Queen’s gambit: claim your power in the media matrix
- The art of living: curiosity and creativity as context for childhood
- Yes, you can! Finding the healthy, happy medium.
Parenting books are essential because they give parents evidence-based tactics and perspectives on how to properly raise and mentor their kids through different phases of development. In addition, they provide guidance and remedies for typical parenting problems, fostering a constructive and salubrious family atmosphere.
