Author: Philippa Perry

Publisher: Penguin Life

Philippa Perry’s best-selling parenting book is one that may take you a while to get into, but once you do, you will be left with a sense of hope for how you will parent and how your upbringing may influence but not dictate how you parent. This book requires the reader to take a look at their own upbringing, which can be hard for some people to do for various reasons. Some may find to easier to listen to the audio book, read by Perry herself, as we did. There is a lot of information to take in, which for some people can be overwhelming when faced with it on one page.

Whilst this book does not provide the bullet-pointed list of tips that many parents and carers love to take away from a parenting book, it does provide the reader with the opportunity to change their mindset regarding their children’s behaviour and our reactions towards it but as with life, there is no quick summary to read so you can skip the book and just take the tips; you need to approach this book as if it were therapy and immerse yourself in the exercises Perry sets, including your co-parent in them if you have one.

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