Book Recommendation: Growth Mindset Pocketbook (2014)

A mindset is the way that a person’s brain assesses and responds to particular situations, and there are two basic types. These are a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. Those with a fixed mindset believe that their ability to cope with situations and resolve problems are constrained Read More …

Book Recommendation: The Gift Of Failure

Parents, by their very nature, wish to protect their child as much as they possibly can, but if this protection is taken too far, then it ends up causing deep and long-term damage to a child’s development, self-confidence and ability to grow into a fully functional Read More …

Book Recommendation: How To Raise A Happy Child (And Be Happy Too)

How To Raise A Happy Child (And Be Happy Too) by Heather Criswell and Taryn Voget is a book that aims to provide parenting strategies that will help you raise a happy, independent child while defusing many of the potential flash points in parent-child relationships. Its advice Read More …

Book Recommendation: How To Raise An Adult

How To Raise An Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims is a book that’s both a damning indictment of the over-parenting commonly found in better off families in the western world, and a solution to it. The first half of the book is spent outlining just how much, despite Read More …

Book Recommendation: Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosak provides an interesting take on modern finance, and particularly the different ways that rich and poor people approach how they spend and use money. Good financial management is a fundamental core life skill and one that if Read More …

Book Recommendation: The Marshmallow Test

The Marshmallow Test by Walter Mischel, is probably one of the most important books to read as a parent if you want to raise a child to become a happy, successful adult. This is because it outlines the basis behind how we develop self-control as we Read More …