Jillian's Top 10 picks for parenting books, plus 3 excellent guidebooks for parents to use when explaining hard topics with children:

The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who are Kids Become and How Their Brains get Wired, by Dr Daniel Siegel and Dr Tina Payne Bryson

Parenting from the Inside Out, by Dr Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell

The Carpenter and The Gardener: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children, by Dr Alison Gopnik 

The Highly Sensitive Child, by Dr Elaine Aron 

I Love You Rituals, by Dr Becky Bailey 

The Whole Brain Child, by Dr Daniel Siegel and Dr Tina Payne Bryson

No Bad Kids, by Janet Lansbury 

The Read Aloud Handbook, by Jim Trelease

The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us about Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life, by Alison Gopnik 

The Irreducible Needs of Children, by T Berry Brazelton and Stanley Greenspan

Please explain anxiety to me!: Simple biology and solutions for children and parents by Jordan Zelinger and Laurie Zelinger

Please explain terrorism to me: A story for children, PEARLS of wisdom for their parents
by Laurie Zelinger

Please explain Alzheimer’s to me: A children’s story and parent handbook about dementia
by Laurie Zelinger