Every once in a while, I find it beneficial to read a book about parenting or motherhood. Over the years, I have read (and sometimes reread) several that I really like. These books include:

Around the Year with the Trapp Family by Maria Augusta Trapp

Children and Parents by Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

On Christian Marriage (Casti Connubii) by Pope Pius XI

The Domestic Church: Room by Room A Mother’s Study Guide by Donna Marie Cooper O’Boyle

Graced and Gifted: Biblical Wisdom for the Homemaker’s Heart by Kimberly Hahn

Great Wives and Mothers by Rev. Hugh Francis Blunt

Holiness for Housewives: And Other Working Women by Hubert van Zeller

How to Raise Good Catholic Children or We and Our Children: How to Make a Catholic Home by Mary Reed Newland – These are the same book with different titles. The latter title is the original title. The latter title also contains the original text. The book with the first title contains a few changes or updates to the content.

The Mirror of True Womanhood by Rt. Rev. Monsignor Bernard O’Reilly, D.D., L.D.

Please Don’t Drink the Holy Water! by Susie Lloyd

Pope Pius XII Speaks to Mothers (Allocution of Pope Pius XII ‘DAVANTI A QUESTA’) translated by Canon G.D. Smith

The Privilege of Being a Woman by Alice von Hildebrand

Raise Happy Children: Teach them Virtues by Mary Ann Budnick (and the other books in this series)

The Saints and Our Children by Mary Reed Newland

The Story of a Family: The Home of St. Therese of Lisieux by Fr. Stephane-Joseph Piat

Your Labor of Love by Agnes M. Penny

I will update this list if I read or think of additional books that fall into this category.