Impossible Parenting - by Olivia Scobie (Paperback)

About the Book

Impossible Parenting outlines how cultural systems, messages, and pressures are negatively impacting the mental health of parents of infants and young children, and provides practical solutions for parents who are struggling to meet these impossible standards.

Book Synopsis

Impossible Parenting outlines how cultural systems, messages, and pressures are negatively impacting the mental health of parents of infants and young children, and provides practical solutions for parents who are struggling to meet these impossible standards.

Review Quotes

Impossible Parenting is truly the inclusive, well-researched, informed book for how to parent in the way all parents need; with compassion, acceptance and space for the person you are inside of and outside of your role as parent.

Finally a book that provides a well researched and honest perspective so parents can give themselves permission to stop raising children from a place of should, and instead from a place that equally prioritized the wellness of parent(s) and child. A wonderful, shame-free look at parenting and mental health.

This will prove a helpful volume to parents in the trenches.

Validates how difficult parenting is ... a really helpful book.

Impossible Parenting is truly the inclusive, well-researched, informed book for how to parent in the way all parents need; with compassion, acceptance and space for the person you are inside of and outside of your role as parent.-- "Amanda Munday, author of Day Nine"

Finally a book that provides a well researched and honest perspective so parents can give themselves permission to stop raising children from a place of should, and instead from a place that equally prioritized the wellness of parent(s) and child. A wonderful, shame-free look at parenting and mental health.-- "Bianca Sprague, co-founder of Bebo Mia"

This will prove a helpful volume to parents in the trenches.-- "Library Journal"

Validates how difficult parenting is ... a really helpful book.-- "CBC"

About the Author

Olivia Scobie is a social work counsellor and educator who specializes in perinatal mood, birth trauma, and parental mental health. She lives in Toronto.