6.4 · Fatherhood & Raising Children
My hierarchy has a full Children section: role modeling, setting example by actions, teaching, empowering. Mapped now, read when relevant.
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
The most practical parenting book written. Scripts and cartoons, not theory. Still the standard after forty years.
Deepen
Section titled “Deepen”The Whole-Brain Child
Twelve strategies grounded in child brain development. Short and immediately usable.
Hunt, Gather, Parent
Maya, Inuit and Hadzabe parenting practices. A useful counterweight to Western intensive parenting — though it romanticises at points.
Reference
Section titled “Reference”The Gardener and the Carpenter
A developmental psychologist arguing against parenting-as-optimization. Read this one before I over-engineer a childhood — it is the direct antidote to applying "perfect in everything" to a child.