Books by Margot Sunderland

An essential read for any parent, Dr Sunderland's bestselling What Every Parent Needs To Know explains what science can teach us about parenting. Covering everything from breastfeeding to brain development, this brand new edition includes the latest thinking on how screen time affects your child's brain, and a focus on how love, nurture, and play contribute to your child's development. With a wealth of fascinating chapters including 'sleep and bedtimes' and 'why children behave badly', What Every Parent Needs To Know is the ultimate handbook for parents who want to make evidence-based decisions about how to care for their child.In What Every Parent Needs To Know, Dr Sunderland's acclaimed ideas explain the science behind parenthood, once again securing the title as the greatest educational book for parents of children up to 12 years old.Previous edition ISBN: 9781405320368

This sensitively written and beautifully illustrated story offers a wealth of opportunities to begin a conversation about the difficult emotions that can follow a loss, helping children to acknowledge and express their emotions. It is an essential resource for anybody supporting children aged 4-12 who have experienced grief.

Helps children who: are suffering from the pain of loss or separation from someone or something they love deeply; have had a parent, relative or important friend leave or die; are obsessed with their absent parent; have lost someone they love, but have never really mourned; and are trying to manage all their painful feelings of loss by themselves.

Designed for professionals, this book helps people explore, communicate and learn more about themselves in light of their relationships.

Contains a series of structured "easy to do" picture exercises to help people of all ages express, communicate and deal effectively with their emotions in everyday life. This book helps to promote a new clarity of thought as a first step towards positive action and bring seemingly huge, unmanageble and insoluble problems into a new perspecitve.

Suitable for people to easily assess just how well the teenager is doing in their life emotionally and relationally, this book provides an opportunity for transformational conversations that will really make a difference.

Enables practitioners to help children whose emotional wellbeing is being adversely affected by troubled parents. This title explores the fact that when parents are preoccupied with their own troubles, they are often unable to effectively address their child's core relational needs, such as soothing, validating, attunement, and co-adventure.

Intended as a guidebook to help children who bully or take revenge on others for the pain they have felt themselves; have become very defensive because something too painful has happened to them; and have hardened their hearts because they have been too hurt in love.

Bipley is a warm cuddly creature, but someone has broken his heart. He feels so hurt that he decides to ever love again. When he meets some Honks in the wood, they teach him how to harden his heart so that he doesn't have to feel hurt any more. Luckily he meets some creatures who teach him how he can protect himself without hardening his heart.

A story to help children pursue their hopes and dreams. Mildred is a pea with dreams. She has great plans for her pea life. However, people are always telling her that dreams are pointless as she is just another ordinary pea. Finally, with the help of a kind person along the way, Mildred ends up doing exactly what she has always dreamed of doing.

Begins with the philosophy and psychology underpinning the therapeutic value of story telling. This book shows how to use story telling as a therapeutic tool with children and how to make an effective response when a child tells a story to you.

Many well-intentioned adults really want to help when children suffer because of parental conflict, divorce, loss and bereavement,growing up issues, and worse. In her latest book, Conversations that Matter, Margot Sunderland, offers a wealth of tools and techniques to empower parents and practitioners to connect to children and young people.

Frog is in love with the moon because she once smiled at him. So now he spends all his time dreaming about her. He waits and waits for her to smile at him again. One day a wise and friendly crow helps frog to see how he is wasting his life away. All the time he has been facing the place of very little, he's had his back to the place of plenty.

Willy is an anxious boy who experiences the world as a very unsafe, wobbly place where anything awful might happen at any time. Joe, the boy next door, is too ordered and tidy to be able to ever really enjoy life.

Ruby hates herself so much that she often feels like a piece of rubbish than a little girl. Sometimes Ruby feels so miserable that she wants to sleep and never wake up again. Then one day, Ruby meets Dot, When Ruby feels Dot's kindness and understanding, something warm happens in her tummy, Dot helps Ruby to move from self-hate to self-respect.

One day Teenie Weenie finds himself in a scrumbly screechy place. It is full of noises and crashes and things that swoop and scratch. The worse it gets, the smaller Teenie Weenie feels. After a while, he feels so small that the tiniest insect tries to eat him up. Teenie Weenie feels terrified and desperately alone.

A story for children who bottle up their feelings. Nevermind always carries on whatever happens! Each time something horrible happens to him he just tucks his feelings away and carries on with life. What happens to Nevermind and how he begins to understand that his feelings do matter, how he learns to express them and stand up for himself!

A guidebook to help children who: are trying to manage their too painful feelings by themselves; do not let themselves cry, protest or say that they are scared; are living with too many unresolved painful emotions from the past; and have had disturbing or confusing experiences, which they have been unable to think through or feel through properly.

A guidebook to help children who: are insecure or worry too much; suffer from phobias or nightmares; find it difficult to concentrate to let go and have fun; have suffered a trauma; are worryingly good or seem like little adults; and, use order and routine as a way of coping with 'messy' feelings.

A guidebook to help children who: hurt, hit, bite, smash, kick, shout, scream or who are out of control, hyperaroused or hyperactive; can only discharge their angry feelings in verbal or physical attacks, rather than being able to think about and reflect on what they feel; and, are angry because it is easier than feeling hurt or sad.

A guidebook to help children who: worry a lot or exhibit signs of ongoing anxiety; experience the world as an unsafe place; suffer from phobias, obsessions or nightmares; are scared to tell someone that they are scared; know a terrible loneliness; and feel insignificant in a world of adult giants.