The first chapter of Between covers some neuroscience but it is quickly turned into language we can understand and ideas that are certainly already familiar to me and I finished this chapter with a much better knowledge of how tween brains are changing at this stage and how my expectations should too. Practical, insightful and honest, this book will help you understand the challenges ahead but, more importantly, it will equip you to meet them with knowledge, confidence and a sense of excitement for the future. Its compassionate, pragmatic approach will help listeners feel less ashamed and more empowered to get their, ahem, act together instead of losing it. The Gentle Sleep Book offers gentle, reassuring and effective solutions to addressing the common sleep problems of newborns to five-year-olds. If you want to find ways to cope with tiring days and difficult nights without putting your baby on a strict routine, or resorting to sleep training, this new, gentle guide is for you.

No book about tweens would be complete without a chapter on screen time, or ‘how to get your child off their games console’ and Chapter 10 is just that. In Gentle Parenting, Sarah Ockwell-Smith provides a trustworthy combination of what-to-expect information and gentle-parenting solutions to the most common challenges faced by parents with young children.

Untangled explains what's going on, prepares parents for what's to come, and lets them know when it's time to worry. The book begins with the obvious question: when is the right time to add another member to the family? I agree with others about her shaming c sections and I even saw her share something once that falsely claimed women who take pain relief in child birth may have problems bonding and breastfeeding their baby.

While life has changed immeasurably as our species has evolved, this natural fear has not moved with the times.This is a very relatable book with good sensible evidence backed reasoning and strategies, and covering most of the likely scenarios in relation to parenting your ‘tweens’.

And once puberty is well established and the teen years are imminent, the challenges of parenthood change yet again, with a new quest for independence, changing schooling, friendships and peer interactions bringing fresh concerns. In this instant Sunday Times bestseller, leading psychotherapist Philippa Perry reveals the vital do's and don'ts of relationships. This is a timely book, a blend of childcare history, sociology, psychology and current affairs and pop-culture coverage, aiming to raise awareness of a much undiscussed issue, but one that will surely be spoken of increasingly in the future. Then bam, before you can take a breath, you catch a glimpse of your child as the teenager they soon will be.Surely it was only yesterday when that warm, mewing bundle was placed in your arms, eyes fixing on yours with all the intensity and knowing of an old soul who has lived many times before, yet in a tiny body, so fragile and new. The early chapters focus a lot on how it isn't hormones necessarily to blame for those changes but the brain and I am already finding this new understanding to be powerful when it comes to how I approach my own tweens.