However, as they grow, they will often encounter difficulties in these new relationships – Chapter 4 looks at friendships in the tween years and what you can do as a parent when they don’t run smoothly. The tween years can be a difficult period for parent and child alike, but your openness and support is key to building the relationship that you will have with your child for the rest of their life.

All the backwards and forwards, toing and froing are characteristic of this stage: little parenting, blending with big parenting, dependence meeting independence, holding on and letting go.There’s loads of how to’s for pregnancy, babies and toddlers but there isn’t much for this age and it’s hard. Chapter 7 considers personal hygiene and how to encourage tweens to understand and take care of their own bodies (including pre – paring for menarche – more commonly known as the onset of periods). The Gentle Sleep Book offers gentle, reassuring and effective solutions to addressing the common sleep problems of newborns to five-year-olds. It’s about the fact that child rights should be human rights, and yet children are treated in ways we would never imagine treating an adult.

Its compassionate, pragmatic approach will help listeners feel less ashamed and more empowered to get their, ahem, act together instead of losing it. The first book in a generation to look at boys' specific needs, parents loved its clarity and warm insights into their sons' inner world.I really struggle with parenting books but this was recommended to me so I wanted to give it a good try! But the entire book seems to just be saying to let it go, which can be helpful but you can’t when you’re getting two hours sleep a night on a good night! There has been a sudden and universal deterioration in girls' mental health, starting in primary school and devastating the teen years. In Between, parenting expert and mother of four Sarah Ockwell-Smith uses a unique blend of the biology, psychology and sociology of adolescence as the basis for practical parenting advice that you can use to help your child through the transition from childhood to adulthood.