Raising and educating children during their childhood is one of the most complex tasks. It is a challenge to face responsibilities such as educating in values, providing fundamental care, combining protection with empowerment, ensuring learning, and many other tasks.

Fortunately, there are a number of works of literature designed to help adults through this process of physical and emotional accompaniment. In these lines we will see several of the most recommendable; different books for parents that can serve as support for them not to get lost and to use effective educational strategies .

The Best Books for Parents

These are some of the books that may interest you if you have children going through childhood or adolescence.

1. Guide for Parents in Distress (Miguel Ángel Rizaldos)

This is a book designed to be a practical tool to better understand what to do and how to do it regarding the upbringing and education of children .

Fathers, mothers and educators can benefit from this work, among other things because its schematic structure makes it an easy book to consult at specific times by going directly to the desired section, although it is advisable to read it in its entirety.

The author of this work, Miguel Ángel Rizaldos, is, in addition to being a father, a psychologist with more than 25 years of experience attending to patients and families. In the pages of Guía para papås y madres en apuros he summarizes several of the general principles of child psychology in order to adapt well to the needs of the youngest members of the household.

Furthermore, in the last sections of this book there are several pieces of advice aimed not at educating and supporting children, but at knowing how to look after one’s own psychological well-being as a parent, guardian or educator; in the end, how one feels about such a great responsibility has a great influence on the quality of one’s relationship with children.

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2. Martin’s Three Treasures (Marina Marta GarcĂ­a Fuentes)

This is a book written by psychologist Marina Marta GarcĂ­a Fuentes , and designed for parents to read with their youngest children. It is a story that focuses on the regulation of emotions by children, especially those who have problems managing sadness, anger or fear.

In short, is a therapeutic tale that is very useful for the family and for professionals , and although it cannot replace a visit to professionals in child therapy and mental health in general, it helps to understand why we sometimes feel bad even when we should not be suffering. Furthermore, prior to the publication of this work on paper, this story had 4 million views on the Internet.

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3. The child’s brain explained to the parents (Álvaro Bilbao)

The brain is the set of organs that is at the base of behavior, feelings and thoughts , so it never hurts to know how it works in a life stage as important as childhood.

In this book, Álvaro Bilbao explains in a clear and simple way what particularities define the developing child’s brain , and what are the implications this has when raising and educating the little ones.

Moreover, given that the first years of life are the time when many of the psychological traits that will remain stable in adulthood are defined, it is important to have this information in order to adapt well to their abilities, without making unreasonable demands on them or wasting their potential.

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4. Happy Parenting: Caring for and Understanding Your Child 0-6 (Rosa Jové)

This is one of the most interesting books on parenting, because delves into a fundamental issue in the process of providing support and security to young children: attachment .

How to manage tantrums, how to encourage him to explore the environment in a safe way, how to communicate with the little one when he is just a baby, how to interpret the crying, what to do with the pacifier… Topics that seem simple but that are fundamental in our daily lives, and that will shape the way in which we weave a mother-daughter or father-daughter relationship.

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5. Educating in wonder (Catherine L’Ecuyer)

A book for parents that makes its own the philosophy “less is more” to give proposals on how to manage the information bombardment that reaches our children through the Internet and the big media.

Educating in wonder offers an educational proposal in which children are allowed to develop their sense of curiosity and explore the world from their own autonomy, without being limited to being recipients of headlines and sensational news.

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6. Educate without losing your temper (Tania GarcĂ­a)

Raising a child is often a strenuous task. And this is not to be underestimated, because not only do we have to provide the expected material resources and information necessary for them to learn; we also have to know how to manage the expression of feelings and how to deal with situations of ambiguity and uncertainty resulting from living with a person who thinks in a very different way from us.

The aim of this book is for parents to avoid falling into the most common mistakes in the upbringing of their children, to embark on their emotional and cognitive education by adapting to their own pace, and to establish the best possible emotional bond, without favouring the appearance of totally avoidable arguments and conflicts.

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