Tanith Carey

Tanith Carey is a parenting and psychology writer whose books and articles draw together the latest research to offer a lucid analysis of the most pressing challenges in wellbeing for children and adults.

She combines studying for her Master’s Degree in Gestalt psychotherapy with writing pieces that aim to bring psychology and child development into the mainstream where it can be used by more people.

Her 14 books - some of which have been translated into 35 languages - cover parenting, psychology, social history and biography.

They include the ‘What’s My Child Thinking?’ series for DK books with clinical psychologist Dr Angharad Rudkin, which now covers kids age 2 to 7, tweens aged 8 to 12 and teenagers aged 13 to 18.

These uniquely accessible books use child psychology and development to look at the best ways for parents to respond in up to 100 different scenarios.

Tanith is also the first author to write about the missing world in our popular mental health conversation - anhedonia, or blah - and look at the neuroscience between why it’s getting harder to feel joy in the modern world.

In ‘The Friendship Maze: How to Help Your Child Navigate Their Way to Positive Friendships’, Tanith also brought together the latest social science on friendship to peel back the hidden mysteries of children’s social relationships.

It fearlessly addresses issues like how hierachies form in classrooms, why cliques are more important to children than ever and looks at the best ways to help children who are struggling with friendship - either making friends or avoiding conflict.

In ‘Taming the Tiger Parent - How to Put your Child’s Wellbeing First in a Competitive World’, Tanith analysed the impact of competitive parenting on children and parents. It was praised as ‘a critique to re-orientate parenting’ by Steve Biddulph and described as ‘insightful and shrewd’ by Sir Anthony Seldon.

It has been cited in books by the world’s best-known educationalist, the late Sir Ken Robinson, and Tanith has also written on the subject for the academic journal, University and College Counselling.

Tanith’s other two titles on parenting, ‘Girls, Uninterrupted: Steps for Building Stronger Girls in a Challenging World’ (2015) and its predecessor, ‘Where Has My Little Girl Gone?’ (2011), also help position her as one of the UK media’s leading commentators on girls’ wellbeing.

As an award-winning journalist, Tanith also writes on all these subjects for a wide range of newspapers and magazines around the world including The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Spectator, The Guardian and The Independent.

Soon after the birth of her first child Tanith was awarded Consumer Journalist of the Year at the London Press Awards, and later that year moved to New York as the Daily Mirror’s US Editor, a position she held jointly with her husband, Anthony Harwood.

Tanith was also nominated National Newspaper Health Writer of the Year and received a UK Press Gazette Scoop of the Year nomination for her investigative journalism.

In 2017, she was shortlisted for Feature Writer of the Year (Popular Press) at the UK Press Awards held by the Society of Editors.

Tanith is also a regular presence on TV and radio programmes which have included the NBC Today Show in the US, Radio Four’s Woman’s Hour and You and Yours, This Morning, the Lorraine Show, Good Morning Britain and Talking Teens.

Her speaking engagements have included the Cheltenham Science Festival and Girls’ School Association Conference.

Anthony Harwood

Anthony Harwood has enjoyed a long career in national newspapers, working for 17 years at the Daily Mirror and four at the Daily Mail.

At The Mirror he joined the news desk after three years as an on-the-road reporter before being made US Editor, covering North, Central and South America. 

Following the Bush-Kerry presidential election in 2004 Anthony was recalled to London to be the paper's News Editor. 

Two months after his return he was in charge of the paper's news coverage of the 7/7 terrorist attacks, for which the The Mirror later won ‘Team of the Year’ at the British Press Awards, and Anthony was later made Head of News.

Following the 2010 General Election he joined the Daily Mail as Executive News Editor before being made Foreign Editor two years later.

In 2015 he set up Clio Media with Tanith Carey and now specialises in foreign news for publications such as The Independent, The Guardian, The ‘i’ Newspaper, MailOnline, The Sun, The Mirror, The Telegraph, and Newsweek. He also writes for The New Arab and was previously London Correspondent of Gulf Times.