Nigel Latta

Why are boys so noisy? Why do they break things? Why are they fascinated with things that can burn, blind, and cripple them? Why do they lose the gift of speech and get so smelly at adolescence? All this and more is revealed, with some surprising conclusions about what we think we know about the differences between boys and girls,...

Do your kids sometimes make you feel as if your head is going to explode? Ever yelled at them until you were hoarse? Do you have days when you feel like making a run for the airport? For harassed parents struggling to understand why they end up screaming at their kids and tearing their hair out trying to make them...

Once you've negotiated the terrors of toddlerdom and the perils of primary school, you think you've got a pretty good handle on this parenting thing. Then along comes Mother Nature with her horrible hormones, and suddenly you're so far behind square one, you're starting to wonder if this raging bundle of contradictions screaming at you was switched in the night...

Bestselling author Nigel Latta's simple psychological toolkit for life's ups and downs. Over thirty years working as a clinical psychologist, Nigel Latta assembled a personal toolkit based on three simple principles. These principles helped him to be more resilient, joyful, and attuned to what matters most. The same principles have helped him through some difficult times as well, such as...

TV presenter, bestselling author, and psychologist Nigel Latta provides common-sense and amusing answers to the complex issues surrounding today's family in its many and varied forms. Utilising both the best current research about stepfamilies and over two decades of clinical experience, Nigel explores the dilemmas and questions that modern family life presents. The shape of the modern family has changed...