9 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
A practical guide for parents navigating divorce with children — focusing on protecting children's emotional wellbeing during and after parental separation — representing the therapeutic consensus on child-centered divorce.
American journalist — Wall Street Journal contributor — author of Irreversible Damage and Bad Therapy — who argues that social contagion and therapy culture are harming adolescents, particularly girls.
Erica Komisar's 2023 book arguing that parental anxiety is being transmitted to children — and that well-meaning protective parenting is producing the anxiety epidemic in children — with a framework for raising resilient rather than anxious children.
American clinical psychologist whose Good Inside parenting philosophy — based on the premise that all children are fundamentally good and that misbehavior is a signal of unmet need rather than bad character — became one of the most influential parenting frameworks of the 2020s through Instagram and a bestselling book.
American psychoanalyst and author whose Being There argues that maternal presence in the first three years of life is the single most important factor in child emotional development — advocating for extended maternity leave and against early daycare based on neuroscience and attachment theory.
Michael Lewis's memoir about his experience as a father of three, written with comic honesty about the gap between idealized parenthood and the actual experience.
British educator and writer — founder of Taking Children Seriously (TCS) — who advocates for treating children as autonomous rational agents whose preferences and knowledge should be respected rather than overridden by parental authority.
The manifesto of the Taking Children Seriously movement — applying Karl Popper's epistemology and David Deutsch's educational philosophy to argue that children should never be coerced.
Father and coach of Tiger Woods — a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel who applied military discipline and sports psychology to developing Tiger from infancy into the world's greatest golfer.