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Rewilding Childhood

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Category: Family & Relationships - Parenting - General

Mike Fairclough invites parents to facilitate their children’s naturally rebellious nature to help them thrive in a turbulent world.

Discover the revolutionary path to incredible parenting and embrace your child's free spirit, inspire their imagination and prepare them for a confident, empowered future.

Foreword by Dame Jacqueline Wilson.


This isn’t your average parenting book. This is a call for rebellion; a liberating, transformative, joyful rebellion, proven to inspire confidence and resilience.



Encouraging children to explore and reconnect with their adventurous side is more important than ever.

Rewilding Childhood

offers game-changing tools and techniques to help you raise empowered children who will thrive in this unpredictable world. You’ll find out how climbing trees instils a healthy attitude to risk, how adventuring into fields and forests cultivates gratitude, and how getting messy with a paintbrush can liberate a child and elevate their confidence. Full of down-to-earth advice, honesty and positivity, this book will encourage both you and your child to move beyond the boundaries of everyday life to become self-assured, secure and, above all, happy.

Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Julian G. ★★★★★

I finished this in two evenings and immediately handed it to my sister. The chapter on letting kids take real physical risks outdoors completely shifted how I handle my son's climbing habits at the park.

Lucy ★★★★★

I was skeptical about the "rewilding" concept at first, but the sections on facilitating kids' natural rebelliousness really shifted how I handle my 8-year-old's pushback. Fairclough gives concrete ways to step back instead of micromanaging, and honestly the whole thing reads less like a lecture and

Brian ★★★★★

The chapter on letting kids take real risks in nature completely changed how I handle weekends with my 8-year-old. Fairclough's idea of facilitating their rebellious streak instead of squashing it sounds counterintuitive but it's genuinely freeing. I've already reread the section on thriving in a tu