How to Ruin a Child Launch

A journey into the alarming, hilarious and ever-changing advice given to Australian parents.

In How to Ruin a Child, Richard Glover explores a century of often contradictory parenting advice in Australia, revealing how experts repeatedly claimed certainty while constantly changing their recommendations. Through humour, research and real-world insight, the book reassures parents that there is no perfect formula for raising children and that most families are doing far better than they think.

Richard Glover has written several bestselling books, including The Land Before Avocado, Flesh Wounds and Love, Clancy. He's been a regular columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Washington Post, and for many years hosted the comedy program Thank God It's Friday on ABC Local Radio.