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.

Tanith carey on the web

Anthony Harwood

Anthony Harwood has enjoyed a long career at the forefront of national newspapers. 

After he leaving Edinburgh University he worked at a news agency before joining the Daily Mirror as a reporter in 1993. He was Deputy News Editor at the time of 9/11 and the War on Terror when The Mirror won Newspaper of the Year at the British Press Awards.

In 2003 he was made US Editor reporting in North, Central and South America. 

After covering the Bush-Kerry presidential election in 2004 Anthony was recalled to London in 2005 to become The Mirror’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 Mirror later won ‘Team of the Year’ at the British Press Awards. 

During Anthony’s time as news editor the paper won two Scoop of the Year Awards and was runner-up as Newspaper of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2007.

In 2010, as Head of News, he ran the paper’s General Election Desk for the poll which saw the arrival of the first coalition in nearly 30 years.

In the same year he started work at the opposite end of the political spectrum when he joined the Daily Mail as Executive News Editor. 

In 2013 he was made the paper’s Foreign Editor working alongside MailOnline to combine print and digital operations.

In 2015 Anthony left the paper to set up Clio Media with his wife, Tanith Carey, and now specialises in foreign news with articles published by The Guardian, The Independent, Daily Telegraph, The Scotsman, Glasgow Herald, International Business Times, Huffington Post and Newsweek. He was also London Correspondent for Gulf Times.

Anthony has a Master’s Degree from Edinburgh University in Politics and Modern History.

Anthony Harwood on the web