Last month I wrote about Kids Behaving Badly – how I had hit a brick wall with my children’s behaviour and I didn’t know what to do next.

I knew I needed a new perspective, a fresh way to look and deal with things. So I asked everyone to recommend any great parenting or discipline books they have read.

I received up to 30 book recommendations – thank you everyone! I was actually planning to read the most recommended books, and only feature the ones I felt were more excellent – but I’ve been getting so many emails asking me to hurry up! I’ve only read five!

Anyway, here is the top 6 books, starting with most recommended book.

(The titles with pictures indicate the books I have read, or hope to read soon) :

1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 by Thomas W. Phelan

Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different-And How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-Balanced Men by Steve Biddulph

The New Strong-Willed Child by James Dobson

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber

Supernanny by Jo Frost

The Secret of Happy Children by Steve Biddulph