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Parenting

Parenting is one of our most important gifts we can give to ourselves, our society, and our collective future.  Bearing and raising strong, happy, resilient children is of crucial importance.  It can bring to us our greatest and most fulfilling joys - and can also expose us to our deepest and most heartfelt disappointments.

Learning to parent wisely is possible even for those who came from non-ideal family backgrounds.  All of us can retain the good things from our upbringing, and trade in those aspects we see as undesireable.  But doing so requires good, dependable information about what to do instead. 

This section contains a wealth of insight and practical strategies to help us become effective, wise,  and loving parents.



Best Books on Parenting Print E-mail

These are our favorite books on parenting.

1) Parenting With Love And Logic (Updated and Expanded Edition), by Foster Cline, Jim Fay

2) Between Parent and Teenager, by Haim G. Ginott

3) Nurture by Nature: How to Raise Happy, Healthy, Responsible Children Through the Insights of Personality Type, by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger

For more books on this topic, please visit our Bookstore, and choose the category "Parenting."