Rewilding Childhood

About Rewilding Childhood

Mike Fairclough invites parents to facilitate their children’s naturally rebellious nature to help them thrive in a turbulent world.

Discover the revolutionary path to incredible parenting and embrace your child’s free spirit, inspire their imagination, and prepare them for a confident, empowered future.


This isn’t your average parenting book. This is a call for rebellion: a liberating, transformative, joyful rebellion, proven to encourage confidence and resilience in children.

Rewilding Childhood offers game-changing strategies, tools, and techniques to help you raise empowered children who will thrive in this unpredictable world. Renowned headmaster and father-of-four Mike Fairclough’s tried-and-tested approach shares how to nurture your child’s naturally rebellious side, encourage their sense of adventure and independence, and help them develop optimism about the future and gratitude for the world around them. This trailblazing book includes:




  •  practical, liberating exercises to explore freedom and creativity with your child
  •  advice on how to set non-restrictive goals and positive intentions
  •  examples of how play and games can improve problem-solving and enhance imagination
  •  tips on how to encourage your child to reconnect with nature, from looking under stones for insects to journeying into forests and fields
  •  simple ways to help your child step outside their comfort zone and build confidence in their own abilities




Encouraging children to explore and reconnect with their adventurous side is more important than ever. Full of down-to-earth advice, honesty, and positivity, this book will encourage both you and your child to move beyond the boundaries of everyday life to become self-assured, secure and, above all, happy.