re: Best parenting book for young kids/toddlers

Check out Last Kid in the Woods. It’s not really a parenting how-to, but it sheds light on how society has shifted from letting kids be kids playing outside making noise to quiet little iPad zombies now. It helped me understand some of the behavior that I was getting so frustrated with, like you talk about. I had to realize that some of my expectations were unreasonable and based on this society imposed shift over the past 20 years.