Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering by Sarah Buckley
$43.00 NZD
Category: Parenting
Sarah Buckley might be called a third-wave natural birth advocate. A doctor and a mother, she approaches the question of how a woman and baby might have the most fulfilling birth experience with respect for the wisdom of both medical science and the human body. Using current medical and epidemiological ...Show more
50 Questions to Ask Your Teens: A Guide to Fostering Communication and Confidence in Young Adults by Daisy Turnbull
$28.00 NZD
Category: Parenting
50 Questions to Ask Your Teens is a guide for parents and carers navigating the confusing and exciting world of adolescence. For anyone who wants to better connect with their teens and help them to be functioning, self-aware and kind adults, Daisy Turnbull offers a simple framework with clever questions ...Show more
Sad Mum Lady by Ashe Davenport
$25.00 NZD
Category: Parenting
If David Sedaris and Sheila Heti had a baby... well, there'd be a lot to unpack there. But the ensuing stories would be brutal and hilarious and endlessly readable. And they'd look a bit like Sad Mum Lady. 'If people knew how bad this was,' I said to a friend two weeks after the birth, nipples flashing ...Show more
We've Got This: Stories by Disabled Parents by Eliza Hull
$37.00 NZD
Category: Parenting
The first major anthology by parents with disabilities How do two parents who are blind take their children to the park? How is a mother with dwarfism treated when she walks her child down the street? How do Deaf parents know when their baby cries in the night? When writer and musician Eliza Hull was ...Show more
How to Be a Girl - A Mother's Memoir of Raising Her Transgender Daughter by Marlo Mack
$30.00 NZD
Category: Parenting
A poignant memoir, with a foreword from Susie Green, CEO of charity Mermaids 'Mama, something went wrong in your tummy. And it made me come out as a boy instead of a girl.' When Marlo Mack's three year old says these words, she's not surprised - but she's completely unprepared. Marlo gave birth to a be ...Show more
The Good Enough Parent (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$38.00 NZD
Category: Parenting
A parenting guide providing compassionate instruction and insight into raising a resilient, well-balanced child. Bringing up a child to be an authentic and mentally robust adult is one of life's great challenges. It is also, fortunately, not a matter of luck. The Good Enough Parent is a compendium of ...Show more
The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years by Emily Oster
$37.00 NZD
Category: Parenting
From the bestselling author of Expecting Better and Cribsheet, the next step in data driven parenting from economist Emily Oster.Parenting is a full-time job. It's time we start treating it like one."A targeted mini-MBA program designed to help moms and dads establish best practices for day-to-day opera ...Show more
Parental As Anything by Maggie Dent
$37.00 NZD
Category: Parenting
A common-sense guide to raising happy, healthy kids - from toddlers to tweens How much screen time should you let your primary-school children have? How do you talk to your teenager about sex? What can you do when your kid throws a tantrum? Why should you let your children just play? Maggie Dent, quee ...Show more
The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us about Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life by Alison Gopnik
$42.00 NZD
Category: Parenting
In the last decade there has been a revolution in our understanding of the minds of infants and young children. We used to believe that babies were irrational, and that their thinking and experience were limited. Now Alison Gopnik -- a leading psychologist and philosopher, as well as a mother -- explain ...Show more
How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes: Science-based strategies for better parenting - from tots to teens by Melinda Wenner Moyer
$38.00 NZD
Category: Parenting
How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes is a clear, actionable, sometimes humorous (but always science-based) guide for parents on how to shape their kids into honest, kind, generous, confident, independent, and resilient people . . . who just might save the world one day.As an award-winning science journ ...Show more
Being a Distance Grandparent - A book for all generations by Helen Ellis
$38.00 NZD
Category: Parenting
Is your family geographically scattered? Has globalisation made your family a Distance Family? This book tells the candid story of how Distance Parents and Distance Grandparents struggle – and succeed – to adapt to their new reality. This isn’t family life as they had imagined it. If you are a Distance ...Show more
Parenting in the Anthropocene by Emily Writes, Jessica Berenton-Shaw, Dr David Galler, Brannavan Gnanalingam et al
$30.00 NZD
Category: Parenting
Humans are changing the world in extremely complex ways, creating a new geological age called the Anthropocene. How do we – as parents, caregivers and as a society – raise our children and dependents in this new world? This book explores ways to ensure the health and wellbeing of the next generations, w ...Show more