The Best Parenting Books of 2023

While highlighting and acknowledging the dilemmas of parenting, Raising Good Humans offers an innovative and insightful approach to raising children. This helpful parenting book offers ways of finding the balance between work life and parenting, all while reducing your stress when everything becomes too overwhelming.

Being a mindfulness mentor, Hunter Clarke-Fields shares their wisdom and personal experiences as a guide to developing healthy relationships with children. This insightful read gives you a chance to reflect on and recognize flaws in your own habits. Plus, you’ll receive many tools to learn how to break free of them. Since children directly learn from their parents, the book lists exercises and strategies for self-control and self-improvement so you can be an inspiration for your children. Thanks to these insightful, helpful and life-altering attributes, we’ve chosen this book as our best overall choice.

Next up on our official listing, we have the brand-new Mindful Parenting Book published by a certified educator — Nicole Libin. The entire book features several different mindfulness strategies and activities that are easy to do and follow. All of the examples are compared to the situations in real life. Your kid will be able to perform them anywhere — in their room, yard, patio, etc. This will spread empathy, acceptance, and emotional awareness within your whole family. Published on October 29, 2019, this book has over 126 pages and comes in a beautiful packaging parcel. You can acquire it as a kindle or paperback — this will depend on your preferences.

The Mindfulness Journal for Parents by Josephine Atluri is one of the most effective parenting books for building a calm and mindful relationship with kids. Children can get extremely chaotic, and it is important that we handle them with patience and care instead of getting short-tempered with them. 

Among other important lessons, this book focuses on creating empathy, developing a better understanding, and encouraging healthy communication with your kids. It includes exercises that will challenge your existing thoughts and behaviors about parenting, and help you adopt a new approach to handling crises, managing tough times, and appreciating the little things.

Unlike most other parenting books that focus on planning and dealing with life during childbirth, the “We’re Parents!” parenting book details a clear and concise plan on how to deal with life after childbirth.

Filled with interesting little tidbits of information and some common problems that first-time dads run into, this calculated parenting book focuses on quantifying the stages after childbirth by using quarterly checklists, milestones, and detailed guides related to specific occasions. But what we loved the most was the upbeat and humorous tone throughout the book that makes taking care of your child an enjoyable activity instead of a chore.

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish is compiled with fresh insights and suggestions. The authors provide time-tested solutions for healthy child upbringing and guidance on how to build long-lasting relationships with them.

This book is a must-have for parents who are struggling with their child’s feelings like anger, frustration and disappointment. Providing effective alternatives to punishment, this book helps you learn how to express strong feelings to your child without being hurtful. What’s more, this book offers valuable insight on how to cope with your child’s negative feelings, for instance through healthy interaction and learning how to replace these negative feelings with kindness and compassion.

Is your kid anxious? Are they defiant and difficult to deal with? Do they have trouble making and keeping friends? Do you often misjudge your child and have trouble connecting with them? Or, perhaps your child is exposed to more attention and screen time than they can handle. If so, Simplicity Parenting serves as the guidebook to set everything right.

With a fast-paced and busy life for both kids and parents, Kim John Payne instructs parents to give their children the space and freedom to think, realize and respond with their mental capacity. The author provides you with a step-by-step guide to reduce your child’s exposure to overwhelming stimuli and find that perfect rhythm and routine that fosters calmness and peace.

Raising children can be exhausting, to say the least, and this is nothing to be ashamed of. If you’re juggling a full-time job and trying to raise a child, you’re not alone. In How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t with Your Kids Carla Naumburg offers proven practices and strategies to prevent any parental meltdown. Plus, she offers tips on how to become a calm and compassionate parent without sounding judgmental.

Whether your kid is a toddler or young enough to go to school, this self-care manual will give you a concrete action plan to get your act together as a parent. Because, the only way you can raise your child better is by better managing your everyday stress to empower and motivate yourself.

Philippa Perry — a renowned psychotherapist — dives deep into the psychology of children to understand how they perceive things and how their relationship with their parents affects their behavior. The book highlights the “dos” and “don’ts” in a parent-child relationship and offers tips on how to maintain and nurture a healthy parental bond.

In addition to underlining the common theme of early childhood upbringing, Perry advises parents and grandparents to view their toddlers as more than just a child. The book carries insight for everyone, giving you the perspective of reliving your own childhood through your children.

Being a dad can be a scary prospect if you’re unprepared and clueless about what you must do once the baby arrives. At moments like these, having this ultimate parenting book for new dads can be a definite cheat sheet on what’s most important when dealing with a newborn or toddler.

From burping techniques to getting your baby to nap to filing for paternity leave, this excellent guide has you covered every aspect of childbirth. It contains fully vetted, evidence-based advice from a seasoned pediatrician who’s seen his fair share of uncomfortable and clueless dads.

Knowing details about how to raise your child after birth is all well and good, but we’d argue that for a partner knowing how to comfort your significant other and prepare for your child’s birth before the event is just as important. “We’re Pregnant!” is an excellent parenting book that provides additional information to partners on how to prepare for their child’s birth before the actual event, and raise awareness of a father’s duties to their partner and unborn child in the months following birth.

Containing helpful diagrams, pictures, and milestones, this incredibly informative guide wastes no time getting straight to all the need-to-know information for new dads that’ll eventually help them in their child-rearing journey.