BIG NEWS INSIDE...

I have been sitting on this news for a while, and I could not wait any longer to tell you first.

I am writing a book.

Okay - I am writing a book. It is happening.

You are hearing it here, before social media, before anywhere else, because this community of 60,000 of you are the die-hards. You open these emails. You reply to them. You send the hard questions. You are the reason I keep writing, and you deserve to hear it first.

The book is called Loving Limits.

Here is a little behind the scenes: I have always loved writing. It is one of the ways I process, think, and communicate, and a book has been on my heart for a long time. But I was not willing to write just any book. It had to be something I believe in deeply, something that actually solves a real frustration parents face, and something that sits squarely at the intersection of pediatrics and parenting, which is exactly where I live.

I also could not ignore the data. Every time I post about boundaries and limit-setting, it goes viral. Caregivers are hungry for this (here and here and here and here). They are not struggling because they lack love or patience. They are struggling because no one has given them a clear, grounded framework that actually makes sense developmentally. That gap is what this book fills.

I had about 7 other ideas before landing on this one. Seven. And none of them felt right. This one did, immediately.

I have to give credit where it is due. My incredible agent Tess at Europa Content helped me get here, and I am beyond grateful to be working with my editor Elysia at Flatiron, an imprint of Macmillan, who will be with me through the entire writing process. Pinch me.

Now, what is this book actually about?

Parenting styles come and go, and honestly, most of them are just different flavors under the same umbrella. But I wanted to bring authoritative parenting back to the front and center, and give it the modern, practical guide it deserves. Warm, clear, and steady has never gone out of style. The research has backed it for decades. What got lost somewhere along the way was a real, accessible resource that actually shows you how to do it, with strategies that work across every child and every stage. That is what Loving Limits is. The go-to book on authoritative parenting, written for the parents of today, in a way that will still make sense for generations to come.

This is not a book that tells you what to do and calls it a day. I wrote this for every grown-up who has stood in a dark hallway at 9 p.m., exhausted, wondering why the thing they just asked their child to do is somehow turning into a 45-minute negotiation.

What makes Loving Limits different from anything else out there is that I bring my pediatrician brain to all of it. The behavior stuff, the pushback, the tantrums, the meals that go sideways, the bedtimes that never end - I explain what is actually happening in your child's brain and body at each stage of development. Because when you understand why your 2-year-old is losing it over the wrong colored cup, or why your 7-year-old argues everything like a tiny lawyer, the moment stops feeling so personal.

I walk you through real scenarios. The kind that actually happen in your home, not in a parenting textbook. And I show you how to approach them in a way that keeps the connection intact and moves things forward, because that is the whole point. Limits and discipline are not the enemy of love. They are how kids learn. And love and limits, it turns out, were never opposites. They were always meant to work together.

That is what this book is built on: limits are not the opposite of love. They are one of the clearest ways love shows up.

Books take a bit to write and get out into the world, but in the meantime I will continue to bring pearls and thoughts here and on social media. 

Thank you for being here. Genuinely. This community means more to me than I can put into words, and I could not imagine sharing this news any other way.

With so much love,

Dr. Mona