The upbringing and education of children during their childhood is one of the most complex tasks. It is quite a challenge to face responsibilities such as educating them in values, carrying out their fundamental care, combining protection with giving them autonomy, ensuring their learning, and many more tasks.
Fortunately, there are a series of works of literature designed to help adults throughout this process of physical and emotional support. In these lines we will see several of the most recommended ones; different books for parents that can help them not get lost and use effective educational strategies
The most recommended books for fathers and mothers (about education, parenting, attachment…)
These are some of the books that may interest you if you have sons and daughters going through childhood or adolescence.
1. Educate me Well: 100 answers for worried mothers and fathers (Montse Domènech, Plaza & Janés)
This book is a practical guide that compiles the 100 most common questions that new fathers and mothers usually ask from the birth of their children to adolescence.
With “Edúcame Bien” any father or mother will quickly obtain the main knowledge required in the first years of raising children led by a psychologist with more than 40 years of experience in the field of children and adolescents.
2. The three treasures of Martín (Marina Marta García Fuentes)
This is a book written by the psychologist Marina Marta García Fuentes, and designed for fathers and mothers to read with their youngest children. It is a story that focuses on the regulation of emotions by boys and girls, especially those who have problems managing sadness, anger or fear.
Definitely, a very useful therapeutic story for the family and for professionals, and that although it cannot replace visiting child therapy and mental health professionals in general, it helps to understand why we sometimes feel bad even when we should not be suffering. Furthermore, prior to the paper publication of this work, this story had 4 million views on the Internet.
3. The child’s brain explained to parents (Álvaro Bilbao)
The brain is the set of organs that is the basis 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 clearly and simply What particularities define the developing child’s brain? and what are the implications that this has when it comes to raising and educating children.
Furthermore, taking into account that the first years of life are the moment in which many of the psychological traits that will remain stable in adulthood are defined, it is advisable to have this information to adapt well to their abilities, without demanding unreasonable things or wasting their potential.
4. Happy parenting: how to care for and understand your child from 0 to 6 years old (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 child when he is just a baby, how to interpret crying, what to do with the pacifier… Topics that seem simple but are fundamental on a day-to-day basis, and that will shape the way in which we weave a mother-child or father-child relationship.
5. Educate in wonder (Catherine L’Ecuyer)
A book for fathers and mothers that endorses the philosophy “less is more” to provide suggestions on how to manage the information bombardment that reaches our children through the Internet and the major 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 limiting themselves to being recipients of headlines and sensational news.
In this link you will find more information about the work.
6. Educate without losing your nerve (Tania García)
Raising a son or daughter is usually a task that is often exhausting. And it is no wonder, because not only do we have to provide the expected material resources and the information necessary for them to learn; You 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 than we do.
This book aims to help parents avoid falling into the most common mistakes of raising children, embarking on their emotional and cognitive education, adapting to their rhythm, and establishing the emotional bond in the best possible way, without encouraging the emergence of arguments and conflicts that are totally avoidable.
