Modern Caregiving
 
Caregiving and How It's Changed
 
Caregiving in 2025 certainly looks different than caregiving in 1995, whether it's parenting, fostering, or more. What's right and what's outdated? In the world of caregiving, many people have strong opinions about how children should be raised, and you may not even know where to start.
Thankfully, the library has a collection full of caregiving books with modern perspectives, research, and application to help you on your journey. Come check out our books while attending a Storytime or a program with your peers like La Leche League. Or, check out ParentTV, a database of caregiving videos that address any topic you can think of. For now, browse our selection of books published in the last three years with the most current information. 

Books about Modern Caregiving
Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
by Virginia Sole-Smith

Reveals the impact of our weight-centric society on children and explores how America's focus on “solving the childhood obesity epidemic” has perpetuated disordered eating and bodying hatred and offers empowering advice to navigate these challenges.

Recommended by our staff member, Lydia, "An important book for anyone- parent or not!" 
Momma Cusses: A Field Guide to Responsive Parenting & Trying Not to Be the Reason Your Kid Needs Therapy (2024)
by Gwenna Laithland

A humorous field guide to responsive parenting and trying not to be the reason your kid needs therapy, by MAJOR TikTok star Gwenna Laithland.

Listen to the audiobook here!
Boymom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity (2024)
by Ruth Whippman

This deep dive into the complexities of raising boys in the face of the many cultural messages they face that leave them anxious, emotionally repressed and socially isolated offers ways to help them overcome the confines of masculine expectations.

"One of the most thought-provoking books I have read as a parent."
- The Times
The Montessori Child: A Parent's Guide to Raising Capable Children with Creative Minds and Compassionate Hearts (2024)
by Simone Davies

Filled with practical advice and hands-on activities to foster a love of learning, this in-depth, practical guide to incorporating Montessori principles into readers' everyday lives shows them how to raise school-aged children in ways that encourage curiosity and independence while supporting their social and moral development.

Also try The Montessori Baby and The Montessori Toddler!
Raising Securely Attached Kids: Using Connection-Focused Parenting to Create Confidence, Empathy, and Resilience (2024)
by Eli Harwood

In an essential guide for parents with kids across the age spectrum, an attachment research expert shares what attachment theory is and provides a practical road map to the only parenting approach proven to have lasting positive impact.

Featuring chapters such as: "They Can Feel What We Don't Heal", "The Self-Confidence Recipe", and "Why Letting Go is Staying Close".
What's My Tween Thinking?: Practical Child Psychology for Modern Parents (2024)
by Tanith Carey

Grounded in evidence-based psychology, this practical parenting book tackles real-world issues head-on as your child edges toward their teenage years, such as handling anger, body consciousness, online safety and self-harm, helping them manage whatever life throws at them.

From the same author: What's My Child Thinking? and its traducción al Español.
Advanced Parenting: Advice for Helping Kids Through Diagnoses, Differences, and Mental Health Challenges (2023)
by Kelly Fradin

A pediatrician provides empathy, support and evidence-based guidance to help parents manage the emotional stress and navigation of care when their child has medical issues, from ADHD and food allergies to anxiety and developmental delays.

Why it stands out: This book features a wide array of issues and their solutions so that it can be applicable to most caregivers.
Sexism & Sensibility: Raising Empowered, Resilient Girls in the Modern World (2024)
by Jo-Ann Finkelstein

In this urgently needed resource for proactive parenting, a Harvard-educated psychologist unpacks the universal experiences that girls live with and offers proven solutions for helping girls understand and confront sexism in all its shapes and forms.

For the girl-dads: Talk With Her: A Dad's Essential Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident, and Capable Daughters.
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