 | The Continuum Concept (Arkana) by Jean Liedloff
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £4.05 The book that started it all, every parent to be should read this. EVERY single one.
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 | Three in a Bed: The Benefits of Sleeping with Your Baby by Deborah Jackson
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £3.20 Confirmed what I knew instinctively about my children; they should be with their parents at night.
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 | The Diaper-free Baby: The Natural Toilet Training Alternative for a Happier, Healthier Baby or Toddler by Christine Gross-Loh
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £8.60 It works, I have done it with my first child - she was potty trained at five months.
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 | Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves by Naomi Aldort
Buy new: £8.23 / Used from: £7.60 Beautifully written, solid truths. We should look deeply at ourselves if we want to raise our children with love.
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 | How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk (How to Help Your Child) (How to Help Your Child) by Adele Faber; Elaine Mazlish
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £3.19 This book changed the relationship with my daughters for the better. Read it.
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 | How to Talk So Kids Can Learn: At Home and in School by Adele Faber
Buy new: £6.61 / Used from: £5.34 Great follow up to previous book.
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 | Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
Buy new: £6.39 / Used from: £3.66 THE book which changed my ideas about education for good. A dangerous and paradigm shifting read.
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 | How Children Learn (Penguin Education) by John Holt
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £3.24 Compassionate, loving book about how children see the world, not just for unschoolers.
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 | How Children Fail by John Holt
Buy used from: £4.98 Follow up to previous book, even more eye opening.
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 | Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.25 Abolish the reward and punishment system = happier children.
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 | The Unprocessed Child: Living without School by Valerie Fizenreiter
Buy new: £13.46 / Used from: £11.96 Thought provoking memoir about a child who grew up without boundaries of any kind.
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 | The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections by Amanda Blake Soule
Buy new: £7.03 / Used from: £6.31 A beautiful, inspiring, family-centred, creative life. A joy.
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 | Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
Buy used from: £4.53 This book confirms the fact that children NEED nature. Packed with facts.
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 | The Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us by Richard Louv
Buy used from: £0.01 Charming collection of essays about the importance of family and tradition.
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 | The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Penguin Psychology) by Bruno Bettelheim
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £4.29 'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein. (I would say Emotional Intelligence)
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 | The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £6.00 The best place to start reading those fairy stories, adults too and cited in Bettelheim's book.
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