How to Dungeon Master Parenting: A Guidebook for Gamifying the Child Rearing Quest, Leveling Up Your Skills, and Raising Future Adventurers - Paperback

by Shelly Mazzanoble (Author)

2025 National Indie Excellence Award Finalist, Parenting & Family

2025 Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY Awards) bronze medalist, Parenting

2024 Zibby Awards, Best Book for Parents selection

2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist, Family & Relationship

2024 American Book Fest Best Book Award Finalist, Parenting

Gather your party, it's time to level up your parenting game!

For years, millions of fans have looked to the beloved roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons for fun, friendship, and entertainment. And now parents and parents-to-be can use D&D to gain inspiration and how-to when it comes to their most challenging and rewarding role yet. Dungeon Masters are not just expert storytellers and arbiters of the rules, they're compassionate, creative, quick-thinking leaders who embody the same traits that make a great parent.

Where do you find an adventuring party who will have your back? What must-have starting equipment should you own before venturing into babyland? How does your gaming style reflect your parenting style? You don't have to know how to be a Dungeon Master to master parenting--just think like one. Kids may not come with rulebooks, but now their parents do.

Author Biography

Shelly Mazzanoble is coauthor of Welcome to Dragon Talk: Inspiring Conversations about Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Love to Play It (Iowa, 2022). When not writing about her life as a part-time sorceress, Mazzanoble writes about parenting, reality TV, and the humorous side of middle-age life in her weekly Substack, Middle-Aged Lady Mom (shellymazzanoble.substack.com). She lives in Seattle, Washington.