7 must-read parenting books like The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children by Ronald F. Ferguson

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The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children

By: Ronald F. Ferguson

3.63

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

We all want our children to reach their fullest potential—to be smart and well adjusted, and to mak…

If you liked the parenting plot in The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children by Ronald F. Ferguson , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

By: Greg McKeown

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underuti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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2. The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer

By: Harvey Karp

3.72

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In perhaps the most important parenting book of the decade, Dr. Harvey Karp reveals an extraordinar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • self help
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3. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americas Wealthy

By: Thomas J. Stanley , William D. Danko

4.53

Format: 122 pages,

The incredible national bestseller that is changing people's lives -- and increasing their net wort… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help

4. The Read-Aloud Handbook

By: Jim Trelease

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

A New York Timesand million copy bestseller, the classic handbook on reading aloud to children--rev… read more

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5. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

By: Amy Chua

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An awe-inspiring, often hilarious, and unerringly honest story of one mother's exercise in extreme … read more

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6. Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five

By: John Medina

4.20

Format: None pages, Audiobook

What's the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a c… read more

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7. Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

By: Frank Bruni

3.51

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasiona… read more

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8. The Psychology of Money

By: Morgan Housel

4.30

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Saving is the gap between your ego and your income."

-Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

"Spending money to show people how much money you have is the fastest way to have less money."

-Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

"To grasp why people bury themselves in debt, you don’t need to study interest rate: you need to sturdy the history of greed , insecurity and optimism."

-Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

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9. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

By: Adam M. Grant

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
  • self help
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10. Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

By: Hunter Clarke-Fields

3.95

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

“A wise and fresh approach to mindful parenting.” —Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance A k… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education
  • self help
"The only way out of our difficult feelings is through."

-Hunter Clarke-Fields, Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

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11. Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

By: Jennie Allen

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head provides a revolutionary path to embr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Feelings aren’t meant to be fixed. Feelings are meant to be felt."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

"Let me be clear, you will never be emotionally healthy outside the will of God."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

"Our willingness to feel what we feel connects us to ourselves, to others, to God."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

"After all, where did those of us who know Jesus get the idea that we were going to have a straight and easy path all the way to heaven? It’s a wild ride all the way home."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

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12. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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13. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education
  • self help
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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14. War of Lanka (Ram Chandra, #4)

By: Amish Tripathi

3.65

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

LANKA WILL BURN. DARKNESS WILL PERISH. BUT CAN LIGHT ENDURE? INDIA, 3400 BCE. Greed. Rage.… read more

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"Fresh drops of grief do not cause any ripple in an ocean of anguish."

-Amish Tripathi, War of Lanka (Ram Chandra, #4)

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15. Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

By: Jessica Grose

3.48

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"If this book feels like it’s sounding the alarm on the state of American motherhood, well, that’s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • self help
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16. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

By: James Nestor

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matt… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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17. The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make

By: Ron Lieber

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR New York Times Bestseller and a New York Times Book Revi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education
  • self help
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18. Think Straight: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

By: Darius Foroux

3.91

Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition

I know something about you without knowing you. I bet you spend A LOT of time in your head. You kno… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Knowing yourself is step one. Step two is acting on that knowledge."

-Darius Foroux, Think Straight: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

"Just sit down, be one with your thoughts, observe them, and then, ignore them. Thatš all there is to meditation"

-Darius Foroux, Think Straight: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

"No matter what you experience in life, and no matter what happens to you, your mind should stay calm under all circumstances"

-Darius Foroux, Think Straight: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

"Money is a replaceable resource. When you're out of it, you can earn it back. You can't say the same for time. Don't spend too much time thinking about money."

-Darius Foroux, Think Straight: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

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19. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

By: Jeff Hawkins

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence, of understanding… read more

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  • nonfiction
"To avoid hallucinating, the brain needs to keep its predictions separate from reality."

-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

"Unlike species which often disappear as new ones appear, the brain evolved by adding new parts on top of the older parts."

-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

"It is human nature - aka old brain - to suspect everyone wants to steal your idea, where the reality is that you are lucky if anyone cares about your idea at all."

-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

"Reference frames in the old brain learn maps of environments. Reference frames in the what columns of the neocortex learn maps of physical objects. Reference frames in the where columns of the neocor…"

-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

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20. How To Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results

By: Esther Wojcicki

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a Super Family shares her tried-a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education
  • self help
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21. The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children

By: Ronald F. Ferguson

3.63

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

We all want our children to reach their fullest potential—to be smart and well adjusted, and to mak… read more

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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Greg McKeown

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer

Harvey Karp

3.72

Transform Your Habits

The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americas Wealthy

Thomas J. Stanley , William D. Danko

4.53

Transform Your Habits

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The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham , Jason Zweig , Warren Buffett

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americas Wealthy

Thomas J. Stanley , William D. Danko

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth

T. Harv Eker

3.82

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