Evidence-Based Parenting: From Toddler to Pre-Teen

by Matilda Gosling

A search for 'parenting' returns over a billion unique hits on Google. How can parents know which approaches actually work to support their children to be happy, healthy and fulfilled while maintaining their own sanity?

Evidence-Based Parenting draws directly on more than one thousand studies, and indirectly on thousands more, to create a single evidence base and reference manual for parents. This vast knowledge base has been condensed, for the first time, into straightforward ideas to support children's relationships, physical health, learning and play, behaviour, and happiness and well-being.

Genres: Parenting

296 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2024

Reviews

[James Marsh · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've read my fair share of parenting books and this is probably my favourite. Well balanced, well researched, well written, non-judgemental, non-preachy and told with a great sense of humour.

Covers a broad range of topics including sleep, eating, physical and mental health, behaviour, self care and more.

A nice range of opinion backed up by facts, alongside a non-preachy critique on the validity of certain studies.

I have two children between the ages of 2 and 7 and I'd say this book is perfectly suited to parents with kids that age. Not so much a baby book.

Highly recommend

[Devin Stevenson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great, straight forward, well sourced advice

[Ed · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this covered such a wide array of topics that it didn't go into enough detail on anyone to be particularly useful. Perhaps this is due to the lack of research for the author to he able to draw on. Most of the conclusions were obvious and uncontentious enough that I didn't need to read a book to discover them. However, it is comforting to see that things you 'knew' to be true do have studies backing them up, and the author does a good job of summarising these things at the end of each chapter and the book.

[Victor Oanca · Rating 5 out of 5]

A nice balanced foray into the literature pertaining to parenting