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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families : Building a Beautiful Family Culture in a Turbulent World by Stephen R. Covey, Sandra Merrill Covey

Although I feel enthusiastic about all the books in this list, this is one that you absolutely have to read if you want to have a truly wonderful family life, marriage, or partnership with someone you love.  It would be hard to recommend this one highly enough. If you cannot afford to purchase another book, please check it out at your local library! The truths contained here can change your family life. They include the concept of deposits and withdrawals in your loved one's "emotional bank account" and how this will make or break your relationships; seeking to understand before being understood and the difference this will make, regular family meeting time, family mission statements, and more. 

The Irreducible Needs of Children: What Every Child Must Have to Grow, Learn, and Flourish by T. Berry Brazelton MD, Stanley I Greenspan MD

This is an insightful and challenging book from two leading child development experts. This is what the best child rearing would look like in an ideal setting. Are you capable of pulling this off? Maybe, maybe not. But we are all better off thinking through what the needs of our children truly are, and struggling with what that means to them and to us. Your parenting can only benefit. I recommend this book. 

Nurturing Good Children Now : 10 Basic Skills to Protect and Strengthen Your Child's Core Self by Ron Taffel Ph.D.

Our culture pushes "junk values" onto and into our children every day through media, schools, other children, myriads of other ways. How can a parent raise a good, decent human being? I highly recommend this excellent book for a set of answers to this difficult question. 

Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles : Winning for a Lifetime by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

This is an extremely useful handbook on respectful, loving, and effective discipline. 

What Did I Just Say!?! : How New Insights into Childhood Thinking Can Help You Communicate More Effectively With Your Child by Deborah, M.A., R.N. McIntyre, Denis, M.D.

This is a must-read primer on clear, to-the-point communication with your child…or anyone else. We often leave too much to the imagination, instead of clearly stating exactly what we mean. After all, if we know what we intend, shouldn’t they? Would you, if you were in their shoes? Possibly not. It also includes interesting insights into what research has to say about the way a child thinks…and if you have read much about traditional child psychology, it may not be what you expect. I highly recommend this book.   

Becoming Attached : First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love by Robert Karen Ph.D.

What sort of book is this? I loaned this book to a friend, and didn't see it again for over a year. It wasn't lying forgotten in someone's stack of books; it was actively being loaned from person to person. This is an incredible book. It manages to be both scholarly and accessible. It uses narrative, biography and history in a fascinating manner. It enlightens and informs without being tedious or dull. If you have any interest in the relationships children have (or that you or your loved ones had) with their early caregivers, and how those relationships can be disrupted, and what the long-term results are, then you might want to consider this excellent book.  

The Family Virtues Guide : Simple Ways to Bring Out the Best in Our Children and Ourselves by Linda Kavelin Popov

This is a wonderful book. It is filled with clear descriptions of the virtues that most people in most faiths hold dear, and suggestions on how to teach 

them and nurture them in ourselves and our children. 

Horse Sense for People : Using the Gentle Wisdom of Join-Up to Enrich Our Relationships at Home and at Work by Monty Roberts

What does parenting have to do with horses? Monty Roberts created an innovative and highly successful method of training horses based on trust, loyalty, respect, and non-violence. He is also active in foster parenting. His unorthodox methods of earning trust, treating living creatures with respect, and never, never coercing a living creature or using violence crosses over into the realm of human relationships...and parenting...extremely well. This is a thought-provoking and moving book. 

How Good Parents Raise Great Kids : The Six Essential Habits of Highly Successful Parents 

by Alan Davidson, Robert Davidson

We've all met teenagers or young adults that were absolutely amazing. How did their parents raise them? What are the secrets? The authors of this excellent book interviewed parents of amazing kids to find out exactly what the common thread to their parenting habits. This fine book is the result. 

The Panic-Proof Parent : Creating a Safe Lifestyle for Your Family by Debra Smiley Holtzman

What parent isn't concerned about the safety of their children? This is a comprehensive and thoughtful guide to creating a safe environment and lifestyle for your family. It should be sent home from the hospital with every new parent. I strongly recommend it as a valuable household safety guide. 

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