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Curated Parenting Books
I personally curated the list of 12 books that we will be reading monthly in 2025. These books are not all ”parenting books”, but they all include nuggets of information and inspiration that we can use as parents. Check out our 2025 Book List below! Get the downloadable list here.
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The club meets via Zoom every third Wednesday of the month at 12:00 pm (PST). I present a summary of the selected book, we discuss insights and I provide you with actionable strategies from our “Book of the Month”.
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Every month, subscribers of the Empowered Parent Club receive an email after the book club session with a replay and a downloadable PDF that contains actionable items from the book of the month.
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Here's Our 2025 Book List
JANUARY
What Do You Say? by William Stixrud PhD and Ned Johnson
What Do You Say? How to Talk with Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home is a manual and map that will immediately transform parents' ability to navigate complex terrain and train their minds and hearts to communicate ever more successfully.
Johnson and Stixrud show how to engage in respectful and effective dialogue, and show new ways to handle specific, thorny topics that usually end in parent/kid standoffs.
FEBRUARY
The Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey
Overparenting has the potential to ruin a child’s confidence and undermine their education. In “The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed", Lahey lays out a blueprint with targeted advice for handling homework, report cards, social dynamics, and sports.
Most importantly, she sets forth a plan to help parents learn to step back and embrace their children’s failures.
MARCH
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
This bestselling classic by internationally acclaimed experts on communication between parents and children includes fresh insights and suggestions, as well as the author’s time-tested methods to solve common problems and build foundations for lasting relationships.
Faber and Mazlish’s down-to-earth, respectful approach makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding.
APRIL
Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy
Good Inside: A Practical Guide to Resilient Parenting Prioritizing Connection Over Correction is a comprehensive resource for a generation of parents looking for a new way to raise their kids while still setting them up for a lifetime of self-regulation, confidence, and resilience.
In Good Inside, Dr. Becky shares her parenting philosophy, complete with actionable strategies, that will help parents move from uncertainty and self-blame to confidence and sturdy leadership.
MAY
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit.
In Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again, Hari introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention and how we can reclaim our focus—as individuals, and as a society.
JUNE
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, is a generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.
Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness and diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free.
JULY
No-Drama Discipline by Drs. Tina Payne-Bryson and Dan Siegel
Highlighting the fascinating link between a child’s neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior, No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind provides an effective, compassionate road map for dealing with tantrums, tensions, and tears—without causing a scene.
Learn how to work with your child’s developing mind, peacefully resolve conflicts, and inspire happiness and strengthen resilience in everyone in the family.
AUGUST
The Parenting Map by Dr. Shefali Tsebary
The Parenting Map: Step-by-Step Solutions to Consciously Create the Ultimate Parent-Child Relationship is the evidence-based manual that every parent has been searching for. Complete with paradigm shifting wisdom, illuminating client stories, and detailed practices.
Acclaimed clinical psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Shefali offers a profoundly practical and groundbreaking parenting solution to empower our children while transforming themselves.
SEPTEMBER
Raising Securely Attached Kids by Eli Harwood
Raising Securely Attached Kids: Using Raising Connection-Focused Parenting to Create Confidence, Empathy, and Resilience is a comprehensive roadmap for parents who want to raise securely attached, emotionally healthy children.
This book teaches parents how to create a lifetime of connection, trust, and open communication with your children through connection-focused parenting.
OCTOBER
The Spiritual Child by Dr. Lisa Miller
In The Spiritual Child The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving, psychologist Lisa Miller presents the next big idea in psychology: the science and the power of spirituality. Combining cutting-edge research with broad anecdotal evidence from her work to illustrate just how invaluable spirituality is to a child's mental and physical health.
Miller translates these findings into practical advice for parents, giving them concrete ways to develop and encourage their children's―as well as their own―well-being.
NOVEMBER
Untangled by Dr. Lisa Damour
Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood helps mothers and fathers understand, connect, and grow with their daughters. When parents know what makes their daughter tick, they can embrace and enjoy the challenge of raising a healthy, happy young woman.
Providing realistic scenarios and welcome advice on how to engage daughters in smart, constructive ways, Untangled gives parents a broad framework for understanding their daughters while addressing their most common questions.
DECEMBER
The 5 Principles of Parenting by Dr. Aliza Pressman
In The 5 Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans, Dr. Pressman shares 5 strategies every parent can use to get things right often enough: Relationship, Reflection, Regulation, Rules, and Repair.
No matter how you were raised, how your coparent behaves, or how your kids have been parented up until now, you can start using The 5 Principles of Parenting to chart a manageable course for raising good humans that’s aligned with your own values and with your children’s unique temperaments.
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