Resources.
Books and podcasts our clinicians hand to parents. Neuroscience, neurodiversity-affirming care, executive function, sensory processing, and the part nobody warns you about: staying regulated yourself.
Reading our clinicians recommend.
Twelve books, chosen for parents rather than for clinicians. Each one is here because someone on our team has handed it to a family and watched it land.
Parenting from the Inside Out
Helps parents understand how their own childhood experiences, attachment patterns, and emotional responses shape the way they parent. By increasing self-awareness, parents are often able to respond with more curiosity, patience, and intention—creating stronger, more secure relationships with their children.
Find the bookNo Bad Parts
An accessible introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS), explaining that every emotion, behavior, and “part” of ourselves developed to serve a purpose. Parents often find this framework invaluable for understanding both their own reactions and their child’s internal world with greater compassion.
Find the bookThe Happiness Trap
A practical introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), teaching readers how to stop fighting difficult thoughts and feelings and instead focus on living according to their values. Especially helpful for parents navigating chronic stress, uncertainty, or caregiver burnout.
Find the bookThe Explosive Child
A foundational resource for parents of children with emotional regulation, flexibility, or behavioral challenges. Greene introduces Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS), a research-based approach that replaces punishment with problem-solving and relationship building.
Find the bookBeyond Behaviors
Explains challenging behaviors through the lens of nervous system regulation rather than motivation or willpower. Parents learn to identify the underlying reasons behaviors occur and how to create environments that promote regulation, safety, and connection. Particularly valuable for families of autistic children and those with ADHD, anxiety, or sensory differences.
Find the bookUniquely Human
Offers a strengths-based perspective on autism by helping parents understand behaviors as meaningful forms of communication rather than symptoms to eliminate. Encourages deeper connection while celebrating each child’s unique way of experiencing the world.
Find the bookThe Whole-Brain Child
Uses neuroscience to explain children’s emotional and cognitive development while providing practical strategies parents can immediately use to build resilience, emotional regulation, and stronger relationships.
Find the bookSelf-Reg
Helps parents distinguish between self-control and self-regulation, teaching them how stress affects a child’s ability to think, learn, and behave. Offers practical strategies for reducing hidden stressors and supporting lifelong emotional regulation.
Find the bookSmart but Scattered
A practical guide for understanding executive functioning skills such as organization, planning, emotional regulation, and time management. Parents learn how to identify executive function challenges and build skills gradually through everyday routines. Particularly helpful for children with ADHD and learning differences.
Find the bookThe Out-of-Sync Child
One of the most respected introductions to sensory processing differences. Helps parents recognize sensory needs, understand behaviors that may stem from sensory overload, and make everyday environments more supportive and manageable.
Find the bookHow to ADHD
Written by an adult with ADHD, this approachable guide explains executive functioning, motivation, emotional regulation, and self-acceptance while offering practical strategies for both children and parents. A refreshing blend of science, humor, and lived experience.
Find the bookWhat Happened to You?
Introduces a trauma-informed perspective that shifts the question from “What’s wrong with my child?” to “What happened?” Parents gain a deeper understanding of how experiences shape the developing brain and why relationships are central to healing.
Find the bookWorth the drive home.
Six shows on raising neurodivergent children. Most run under an hour, which is about the length of a school pickup and the errand after it.
Full-Tilt Parenting
Hosted by Debbie Reber, this podcast explores parenting neurodivergent children through interviews with leading clinicians, educators, researchers, and neurodivergent adults. Topics include ADHD, autism, anxiety, giftedness, executive functioning, and school advocacy, with an emphasis on embracing children’s differences rather than trying to “fix” them.
ListenThe Baffling Behavior Show
Hosted by Robyn Gobbel, this podcast helps parents understand challenging behaviors through the lens of the nervous system, attachment, and trauma. Episodes are practical, compassionate, and especially helpful for parents seeking alternatives to traditional behavior management approaches.
ListenBeautifully Complex
Hosted by Penny Williams, this podcast provides practical guidance for raising neurodivergent children with topics including emotional regulation, sensory processing, executive functioning, anxiety, and family relationships. Parents will find evidence-informed strategies that are immediately applicable at home.
ListenThe ADHD Experts Podcast
Produced by ADDitude Magazine, this podcast features conversations with internationally recognized ADHD researchers and clinicians covering medication, executive functioning, school supports, emotional regulation, and practical parenting strategies. An excellent ongoing educational resource for families navigating ADHD.
ListenUniquely Human: The Podcast
Hosted by Barry Prizant and Dave Finch, this podcast expands on the philosophy of Uniquely Human through conversations with autistic adults, clinicians, researchers, educators, and families. It promotes a strengths-based understanding of autism and offers thoughtful guidance for supporting neurodivergent individuals across the lifespan.
ListenGood Inside with Dr. Becky
While not specific to neurodivergence, Dr. Becky Kennedy provides highly practical parenting guidance grounded in emotional development, connection, and resilience. Her episodes help parents navigate meltdowns, boundaries, anxiety, and difficult moments with empathy while maintaining clear expectations.
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