List of successful parenting guides and education books

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Benjamin Spock's The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946) is considered the best-selling parenting book in the world.

This list of successful parenting guides and educational books includes international publications on raising children that have sold well above average.

Upbringing at home

year country Author, title Total circulation Notes and sources
1946 United States Benjamin Spock : Infant and Child Care ( The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ) 50,000,000 1998: Total circulation almost 50 million, translated into 42 languages
1966 United States Rudolf Dreikurs , Vicki Soltz : Children challenge us: How do we bring them up in a contemporary way? ( Children: The Challenge ) 600,000
1970 United States Thomas Gordon : Family Conference ( Parent Effectiveness Training ) 1,000,000
1973 Italy Elena Gianini Belotti : What happens to little girls? ( Dalla parte delle bambine , Du côté des petites filles ) Germany: 15 editions from 1975 to 1991
1978 Germany Ursula Scheu : We are not born girls, we are made to be 115,000
1985 United States Richard Ferber : Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems 800,000
1988 United States Adele Faber , Elaine Mazlish : Siblings Without Rivalry New York Times bestseller, # 1, translated into 16 languages
1992 United States William Sears , Martha Sears: The Baby Book 328,000
1993 Switzerland Remo H. Largo : Baby Years: Development and Upbringing in the First Four Years 150,000
1993 Germany Jan-Uwe Rogge : Children need limits / The new children need limits 300,000 22 editions
1995 Denmark Jesper Juul : Your competent child: On the way to a new value base for the whole family , new edition: The competent child ( Dit competent barn - på vej mod et nyt værdigrundlag for families ) translated into 13 languages
1995 Germany Annette Kast-Zahn , Hartmut Morgenroth : Every child can learn to sleep 700,000
1998 United States Dorothy Law Nolte , Rachel Harris : Have you praised your child today? ( Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values ) 700,000 Translated into 36 languages
1999 United States Michele Borba : Parents Do Make a Difference Voted “Outstanding Parenting Book of 1999” by Child Magazine
2000 Germany Albert Wunsch : The pampering trap: for an education to be more responsible 13 editions by 2008; Translations into Chinese and Korean
2000 People's Republic of China Liu Weihua , Zhang Xinwu : Harvard Girl Liu Yiting: a character training record / Harvard Girl (哈佛 女孩 刘亦婷: 素质 培养 纪实, Hāfó Nǚhái Liú Yìtíng: sùzhì péixùn jìshí) 1,430,000
2001 United States Wendy Mogel : The Blessings of a Skinned Knee 100,000 New York Times Best Sellers List, Nonfiction / Paperback, # 9
2002 United States Harvey Karp : The Happiest Baby in the World: This is how your crying child calms down - this is how it sleeps better ( The Happiest Baby on the Block ) 350,000 translated into 12 languages
2008 Germany Michael Winterhoff : Why our children become tyrants. Or: the abolition of childhood 420,000 Spiegel bestseller, non-fiction books, 4th place
2009 Germany Michael Winterhoff: Tyrants don't have to be 160,000 Spiegel bestsellers, non-fiction books, place 9
2009 People's Republic of China Yin Jianli : A Good Mom Is Better Than a Good Teacher / Good Mom, Good Teacher (好 妈妈 好 老师, hǎo māmā hǎo lǎoshī) 1,700,000
2011 United States Amy Chua : The mother of success ( Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother ) 240,000 New York Times bestseller list, nonfiction / hardcover, # 2
2011 People's Republic of China Xiao Baiyou : 中国 狼 爸 ”把 三个 孩子 打进 北大 ( So, All My Children Went to Peking University ) Best seller in China
2012 United States Pamela Druckerman : Why French children are no pain in the ass: educational secrets from Paris ( Bringing up Bébé ) # 8 on the New York Times bestseller list, # 1 on the UK Sunday Times bestseller list

Education in school

year country Author, title Total circulation Notes and sources
1960 Great Britain AS Neill : Theory and Practice of Anti-Authoritarian Education - The Example of Summerhill ( Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing ) 1,000,000
2006 Germany Bernhard Bueb : Praise to the discipline. A polemic 180,000 Best seller list of Der Spiegel magazine, non-fiction books, 10th place

See also

Individual evidence

  1. 21 Best-Selling Books of All Time
  2. ^ Benjamin Spock, World's Pediatrician, Dies at 94 The New York Times, March 17, 1998
  3. Children challenge us
  4. Parent Effectiveness Training - PET ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.progressiveschoolhouse.com
  5. ^ Margitta Kunert-Zier: Education of the sexes: developments, concepts and gender competence in socio-educational fields , Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2005, ISBN 3-531-14657-2 , p. 28
  6. ^ Margitta Kunert-Zier: Education of the sexes: developments, concepts and gender competence in socio-educational fields , Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2005, ISBN 3-531-14657-2 , p. 30
  7. ^ Baby sleeps as planned , The Washington Times, August 7, 2004
  8. LONG ISLAND Q&A: ADELE FABER AND ELAINE MAZLISH; 2 Writers Guide Parents in Communicating With Children
  9. ^ William Sears proposes a kinder, gentler parental model , The Baltimore Sun, June 20, 1999
  10. ↑ Promotion of physical activity in the first year of life ( memento of the original dated May 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eltern-bildung.at
  11. ↑ Glimmer of hope for upbringing: Rogge, Jan-Uwe: Children need limits ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dooyoo.de
  12. Jesper Juul ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 117 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.familylab.ch
  13. Recommended books for parents of babies
  14. Parenting book gets princely praise
  15. Website of the author ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.albert-wunsch.de
  16. Harvard Girl Harvard Magazine, November-December 2011
  17. Paperpack Advice The New York Times, October 29, 2006; The Taming of the Jew
  18. ^ Coping With the Caveman in the Crib New York Times, February 5, 2008; Website of the author ( Memento of the original dated December 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.happiestbaby.com
  19. The psychologist's view of petty tyrants ; Spiegel bestseller 2008 ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buchreport.de
  20. The psychologist's view of petty tyrants ; Spiegel bestseller 2009 ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buchreport.de
  21. Chinese Parenting Advice Undergoes a Small Revolution Wall Street Journal, August 16, 2010
  22. ^ Best Sellers New York Times, February 6, 2011; Publisher's website (PDF; 5.7 MB)
  23. Wolf dad's book stirs controversy over “stick parenting”. Retrieved January 20, 2015 .
  24. 'Bringing Up Bebe': Do French Parents Have A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi? (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 28, 2014 ; accessed on January 27, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.huffingtonpost.com
  25. Cuddle education or not?  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 159 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / paed-services.uzh.ch  
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