The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did): The million-copy selling parenting book from the Sunday Times bestselling psychotherapist Paperback – 31 Dec. 2020

I thought this book was superb but more than that, after about ten minutes I felt it was already changing my behaviour! My friend who recommended it said the same.Perry lays out her methods and thoughts very gently, with lots of good examples from real life, little case studies; but it’s the insights which really help. Looking at WHY we lose our rag about certain trigger bits of parenting - going back to our own childhoods and looking at why - OH MY GOD. Brilliant.There’s also so much help here about FIXING those situations once you as the parent have cocked up. Rupture / repair, as she puts it.And also advice on how to manage your parental situations better. When your kid says look at this, LOOK AT IT. I know that sounds sort of obvious but often I will say “hang on a sec I’m making dinner” etc. I feel like from now on I will do that differently because it doesn’t take two seconds to run and look. And the response you get is ♥️I found it readable, funny, thoughtful, insightful, but most of all INCREDIBLY useful and, very very very rare for a book, genuinely life-changing.

Really engaging and easy to read - my profession is psychology however this book is written really accessibly, and is easy to understand for the majority of people.

I liked the book and I’m definitely taking advice from it, I’ve also recommended it to friends already. However I do feel it could be shorter by removing the repetition, at times I feel like I’ve read the same paragraph multiple times over. I’d also love to hear more examples of parents with multiple children, a lot of the examples were one child households, whereas many people have more

It's worth a read, tackle the emotional content, and try to remember that your child doesn't understand themselves or you and is using your behaviour and relationship with your spouse to learn about themselves and the world

Everyone should read this even if you don't have kids. Very informative and interesting.

It's a really good book, and the advice is generally how I try to parent most of the time. I agree with pretty much all of it, and I confirmed a lot of my parenting practices.However, a lot of the advice seems to be written for a parent with one child. The examples often refer to one child situations/her own examples are of her and her daughter. For example if your child is having a meltdown or 'inconvenient behaviour ' in the street, she suggests just sitting with and validating your child's feelings/offering emotional support. Great, all really good stuff. Absolutely agree that's what you should do when your child is overwhelmed. But just not entirely practical for parents with two or more children. Especially if you have smaller children pulling in your arm of trying to wander off whilst you soothe your child who is having these big feelings.Worth reading and remembering the advice and aspiring towards it as much as possible. But don't let perfect be the enemy of good. We can't implement all of the advice ALL of the time. Perhaps needs more examples with more than one child. I find the most parenting support I need is when both of my children are displaying these 'inconvenient behaviours' at the same time in a time pressured environment such as being late for school etc.

Another great read for anyone who wants to try and parent the best they can. We definitely don't get it right all the time, but this book provided some really helpful insight into what I could do differently that I have already implemented!

its good explained simply