Reading list

Further reading.

Books that inspire us and fit well with the training. For anyone who wants to explore further, before or after the sessions.

On parenting

• Parent Effectiveness Training

  Thomas Gordon

  The classic on truly listening and talking without power. This is where it starts.

• Teaching Children Self-Discipline

  Thomas Gordon

  How children learn to steer themselves, without punishments or rewards.

• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

  Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

  Practical and recognisable: what to say so your child listens, and how to listen so your child talks.

• The Whole-Brain Child

  Daniel Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson

  How your child’s brain develops, and how to use that in difficult moments.

• Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain

  Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

  What happens in the teenage brain and why this period is so special, by one of the leading researchers in the field.

• Hoogbegaafd. Als je kind (g)een Einstein is (in Dutch)

  Tessa Kieboom

  A clear introduction to what giftedness is and how to support your child.

• Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids

  Laura Markham

  On connection instead of control, with calm in yourself as the foundation.

• Unconditional Parenting

  Alfie Kohn

  Why love without conditions works: moving from punishments and rewards to love and reason.

• Het einde van de opvoeding (in Dutch)

  Jan Geurtz

  A radical and liberating view: less parenting, more connection.

• The Anxious Generation

  Jonathan Haidt

  What smartphones and social media do to children and young people, and what we as adults can do differently.

On yourself

Books to get to know yourself better.

• The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read

  Philippa Perry

  On how your own childhood shapes the way you parent, and how to break that pattern.

• The Drama of the Gifted Child

  Alice Miller

  On the child who learned to sense what others needed, and the adult who finds themselves again.