Books like Know your child by Stella Chess

Learn practical communication strategies to strengthen parent‑child relationships, reduce conflict, and support your own well‑being.

This book shows parents how to give children more autonomy and resilience, blending brain science, behavioral therapy and real‑world case studies to reduce stress and spark self‑driven achievement.

Explores late adulthood through case studies, examining life satisfaction, grandparenting, aging work and the pursuit of long‑delayed dreams.

Psychologist Diana Baumrind's revolutionary prototype of parenting, called authoritative parenting, combines the best of various parenting styles. In contrast to previous emphases on parental responsiveness alone (permissive parenting) or on demandingness alone (authoritarian parenting), authoritative parenting combines high levels of both responsiveness and demandingness. The result is an appropriate mix of warm nurturance and firm discipline. In this book, leading scholars update our thinking about authoritative parenting and address three unresolved issues: mechanisms of the style s effectiveness, variations of effectiveness across cultures, and untangling how parents influence children from how children influence them. By integrating perspectives from developmental and clinical psychology, the book will inform prevention and intervention efforts to help parents maximize their children s potential.

"[Offers] parents of children aged 2-13 a ... roadmap to ... discipline, highlighting the fascinating and important connection between the way a parent reacts to misbehavior and a child's neurological development"--