On my baby and child bookshelf

I was looking at my bookcase and noticed I have a nice selection of baby and child related books, I thought I might share them.

• The Attachment Parenting book - The Sears (basics for the attached parent and child, very nicely written and very popular)
• The good behaviour book - The Sears (good overview but I still don't agree with some of it, instead of coming up with an alternative is pulls the best out of current discipline methods but still better than most)
• How not to f*** them up - Oliver James (I really enjoyed this book, very very well written)
• They f*** you up - Oliver James (not strictly baby related but a good overview of how our initial years make us who we are)
• Raising boys - Steve Biddulph (good book from a family therapist although I disagree with some of it like keeping boys back a year at school and how dads are there to uphold discipline when mums struggle... really?)
• Raising happy children - Steve Biddulph (again good mainstream book but not that great from an AP/Continuum perspective, he doesn't agree with co-sleeping and states there should be some distance between parents as authority and their children otherwise we won't be respected)
• The secret of happy children (as above)
• A secure base - John Bowly (the originator of the attachment theory, a wonderful psychology book)
• How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk - Faber and Mazlish (to be honest I haven't read it yet, bought it to help with older children but not got around to it yet, was highly recommended though)
• The no-cry sleep solution -  Elizabeth Pantley (great great alternative to controlled crying)
• Why love matters - Sue Gerhardt (very technical book, don't be fooled by the fluffy title, about brain reactions in babies and why they should never be left to cry)
• The Continuum Concept - Jean Liedloff (one of the most wonderful books I have ever read, totally eye opening, it was like being slapped awake, some of the science bit is a bit dodgy but the description of an idyllic society is just wonderful, I aspire to it)
• Unconditional parenting - Alfie Kohn (another amazing eye-opener of a book, how punishments and rewards don't really work, I had suspected this for a very long time)
• Letting go as children grow - Deborah Jackson (the author of Three in a bed, have not got round to reading this yet but I bought it as I feel I might need it :) I am rather attached to my kids...)
• The diaper free baby - Christine Gross-Loh (wonderful idea, you don't have to do it all the time, shame that I'm a horrible wimp and my kids are still in nappies)
• Baby Led Weaning - Gill Rapley & Tracey Murkett (THE BIBLE OF WEANING!!!! So cross I didn't know this existed with my first child, no more purees, wonderful!!!)
• What every parent needs to know - Margot Sunderland (started quite well, a lot of information about what happens to babies' and children's brains, so more of the responsive parenting approach, I was surprised though at the mention of tantrums and time outs when it got to toddlers, not very unconditional at all...)
• Three in a bed - Deborah Jackson (another wonderful book, mainly about co-sleeping but with a very good section on how the whole baby training business came about)

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