For schoolsIn tandem, never instead
The teachers’ shelf.
Your pastoral team reads the whole library, free, and sends the right chapter to the parent who needs it.
The Parent Book is a therapist-written library for parents: the friendship that has quietly ended, the evenings that have stopped working, the worry that has started to make decisions for a child. Schools meet these conversations before anyone else does. The teachers’ shelf puts the library in your pastoral team’s hands so that when a parent stands in the doorway at pick-up, the person she trusts has something careful to give her.
There is no licence, no fee, and no partnership to sign. Your school is not a customer here; it is the person who made a good introduction.
If you are a parent
Pass the library to your school.
You read it; the rest of your year group could have it too. It costs the school nothing, and it takes you two minutes.
How to introduce us →If you work at a school
Read the whole library, free.
No licence, no procurement, no roll-out. Your pastoral team reads it and sends what a parent needs.
How the shelf works →How it worksThree steps, no procurement
Your pastoral team reads the library, free.
Heads of year, form tutors, the school counsellor, whoever holds pastoral care. The whole library, nothing held back, no accounts to administer.
A staff member sends a chapter to the parent who needs it.
A link, pasted into an email the tutor was already writing. No portal, no roll-out, no training day, and no time asked of staff beyond the conversation they were having anyway.
The parent reads that chapter in full. Free, no wall, no sign-up.
The chapter ends with a quiet note that it is one of a library written by therapists, and what the rest costs, once. Whether she subscribes is entirely hers.
Beyond the shelfWhen a school wants more
Evenings and briefings, led by the therapists who write it.
Some schools want a voice in the room as well as a library on the shelf. The therapists who write The Parent Book lead parent evenings on the themes your families are actually navigating, and brief pastoral staff at the start of a term. These are arranged term by term as a day-rate service; there is no annual commitment and no bundle to buy.
Safeguarding is furniture here, not a feature: every chapter closes with the same clinically maintained signposting block your DSL would want a parent to have, and nothing in the library replaces your school’s own procedures.
For parentsIf the library has helped you
The best introductions come from parents.
If a chapter here has been useful to you, the parents in your child’s year group are probably carrying versions of the same week. Schools listen to their own parents long before they listen to us, so one sentence from you in an email to your head of year opens a door that a cold approach never will.
What you are passing on costs the school nothing. The pastoral team reads the whole library free, and sends a chapter to a parent the way they would send anything else, as a link in an email they were already writing. There is nothing to buy, nothing to install, and nothing for a busy deputy head to administer.
You are welcome to write to them yourself, and to say we can be reached at hello@theparentbook.com. If you would rather we made the approach, leave us the name below and we will write one careful email. We will say a parent at the school suggested it, and we will not use your name unless you tell us we may.
Introduce your schoolTwo minutes, in your own words
Tell us who to write to.
Parents introduce their school; deputy heads introduce themselves. Fill in what you know and leave the rest blank, a school name on its own is enough. We write one careful email to the right person, we do not name you unless you have said we may, and nothing further happens unless the school wants it to.
Thank you. Your introduction has arrived, and we will write back personally, usually within two working days. If a conversation with the school follows, it will be unhurried and honest about what the shelf is and is not.
The Parent Book is written by qualified therapists registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy BACP and the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society NCPS.