The “Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child” is a wonderful book that offers a step-by-step method for resolving any sort of problem together with your child. Ross W. Greene is the author of this excellent book. Ross is the author of the New York Times best-selling books. In this book, Ross shares some tips on how to act behave with your kids. It helps you imagine how the conversations and this whole approach fit into life with children. There is some great material about helping with sibling conflicts. Additionally, it is also a guide for how to have a respectful relationship with your child once they develop basic verbal skills. If your children’s are adult, shares your business with them and talks like a friend but within a manner. Raising Human Beings offers you not only a way to develop a good problem-solving relationship with your child, but a way to foster empathy, listening, collaboration, and problem-solving skills in your child. To be honest, I highly recommend this book to everyone, who is working with children. All in all, Raising Human Beings is a must-read book for parents and teachers.

The “Handbook of Social Skills and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Assessment, Curricula, and Intervention (Autism)” is an informative book for the readers. Justin B. Leaf is the author of this book. Justin is the Director of Research and Training for the Autism Partnership Foundation and for the Center for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis. He received his doctorate degree in Behavioral Psychology from the Department of Applied Behavioral Science at the University of Kansas. In this book, Justin talks about the children, how they improve social skills and make you sociable anytime. He shares seven keys to becoming more social. This book filled with future direction for the development of both social behavior and clinical social skills interventions. It is a helpful book for researchers and graduate students in clinical child, school and developmental psychology and social work. This book engages all the readers from start to end of page and worth to read. All in all, Handbook of Social Skills and Autism Spectrum Disorder is an instructive book for the readers.

“Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, 4th Edition: A Step-by-Step Program for a Good Night’s Sleep” is a great book for how to soothe newborns and help them sleep. Marc Weissbluth is the author of this classic book. If you are a first-time parent, this book is very helpful. Dr. Weisbluth does an excellent job of explaining the differences in children’s sleep habits at different ages so you can see if your baby/child is within normal limits. This book is a great resource to help your baby have healthy sleep habits. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child is laid out well with specific chapters for each stage of your child’s life and it has personal stories in so new parents can relate to someone else. However, this is designed for the stay at home mom and will not work for everyone. We all want our children to have healthy sleep habits. And, this is not just a CIO book, it’s an educational book, learning sleep needs of your child helps everyone in the family to be happier. He suggests following your babies cues, along with helping him/her follow a schedule including cues to watch for, setting in place routines, understanding how the brain works with sleep, handling unrealistic expectations (i.e. not all babies can/should sleep through the night too young), colic/extreme fussiness, stages of sleep development, and having peace about your choice to let a baby cry sometimes because after only a few cries.

“The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind” is a chilling book for parents, guardians & anyone who works with or cares for children. Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson are the authors of this interesting book. This book is extremely valuable for every new and upcoming parent as it covers several brain concepts in-depth. Instead of just explaining the concept it also gives useful examples, strategies how to incorporate it into your daily life and a simple explanation you can let your kids read. The Whole-Brain Child is about relationships. Foremost, it is about the relationship between our interactions with our children and their neurological development. More specifically, this book is about connections. Throughout the connections we share with our children, we have the opportunity to directly influence their brain’s architecture. Likewise, as we consider the ways in which children’s brains process our interactions, we have the opportunity to intentionally support an architectural framework that will last a lifetime. Simple ideas with profound implications, such as Name it to Tame it, Engage, don’t Enrage, and Connect through Conflict, are but a few of the strategies the authors present in a thoughtful and accessible format, one that respects the role of relationships within families. One of the best aspects of this book is the manner in which Siegel and Bryson present the most current findings in neurological research, the integrity of the research is in place and the language of delivery allows us to actually understand and address the implications. We most appreciate about this book is the dedication to families’ experiences with their children and the realization that while we all pledge to do our best each and every day, we all will have moments, days, stages where our best is exhausted, on hiatus, and for the moment we are only human. This book reminds us that we have an opportunity to work in the direction of children’s growth and development and that we have every right to know and understand how children’s brains organize and develop based on our interactions, reactions, and relationships with one another. Finally, The Whole-Brain Child is a very interesting book, especially if you are one of those people who are interested in the biologic basis of behaviour and brain development.