17 best-selling nonfiction books like The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives by William Stixrud

Cover of The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives by William Stixrud

The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

By: William Stixrud

4.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"It is not an overstatement to say that this is one of the most radical and important books on rais…

"Society thrives on the diverse talents of its people."

-William Stixrud, The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

"Society thrives on the diverse talents of its people."

-William Stixrud, The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

"The reality is that we become successful in this world by working hard at something that comes easily to us, and that engages us."

-William Stixrud, The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives by William Stixrud , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive

By: Daniel J. Siegel , Tina Payne Bryson

4.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Yo… read more

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  • science
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • self help
Cover of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish, Kimberly Ann Coe

2. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

By: Adele Faber , Elaine Mazlish , Kimberly Ann Coe

3.06

Format: 220 pages,

Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know-how you need to be effective with your chi… read more

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3. Einstein Never Used Flashcards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less

By: Kathy Hirsh-Pasek , Roberta Michnick Golinkoff , Diane Eyer

3.38

Format: None pages,

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Cover of Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

4. Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too

By: Adele Faber , Elaine Mazlish

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Already best-selling authors with How to Talk So Kids Will Listen Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele F… read more

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  • childrens
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  • audiobook
Cover of How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success by Julie Lythcott-Haims

5. How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success

By: Julie Lythcott-Haims

4.46

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A provocative manifesto that exposes the harms of helicopter parenting and sets forth an alternate … read more

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6. The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child

By: Daniel J. Siegel , Tina Payne Bryson , None

4.19

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, an indispensable guide to unlock… read more

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7. Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life

By: Peter O. Gray

3.63

Format: 256 pages,

Our children spend their days being passively instructed, and made to sit still and take tests--oft… read more

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8. The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed

By: Jessica Lahey

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Paul Tough's How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel's The Blessing of a Skinned K… read more

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9. The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education

By: Grace Llewellyn

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

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10. How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7

By: Adele Faber , Julie Adair King , Joanna Faber

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction by Adele F… read more

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Cover of Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be by Becky   Kennedy

11. Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

By: Becky Kennedy

4.55

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving--whi… read more

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  • self help
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  • childrens
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
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  • audiobook
Cover of No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel

12. No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

By: Daniel J. Siegel

4.26

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain Child and The Yes Brain t… read more

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

13. 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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"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

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

14. 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
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"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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15. The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being

By: Simone Davies

4.30

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

There is no doubt about it. Toddlers can be tricky. On one hand they can be lovely. On the other ha… read more

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Cover of Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans by Michaeleen Doucleff

16. Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans

By: Michaeleen Doucleff

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff becomes a mother, she examines the studies behind modern parenting gui… read more

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Cover of Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It by Jennifer Breheny Wallace

17. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more

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Cover of The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life by Julie Bogart

18. The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

By: Julie Bogart

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A joyful and accessible approach to homeschooling that harnesses children's natural curiosity and m… read more

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"A lifestyle of learning begins at home - with parents who create a context that is welcoming of children as they are and that offers them happy experiences, accessible tools, and parental involvement."

-Julie Bogart, The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

"If you send a child to therapy before you've been for yourself, the child rightly discerns that you consider the child the problem. If, however, you've used therapy in your life before asking your ch…"

-Julie Bogart, The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

"On some intuitive level, I knew that learning had to be more than the mastery of facts. I've experienced it as an adult. I become consumed with a subject like quilting or preparing yogurt cultures, a…"

-Julie Bogart, The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

Cover of Raising Critical Thinkers: A Parent's Guide to Growing Wise Kids in the Digital Age by Julie Bogart

19. Raising Critical Thinkers: A Parent's Guide to Growing Wise Kids in the Digital Age

By: Julie Bogart

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A guide for parents to help children of all ages process the onslaught of unfiltered information in… read more

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Cover of The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives by William Stixrud

20. The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

By: William Stixrud

4.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"It is not an overstatement to say that this is one of the most radical and important books on rais… read more

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  • self help
  • parenting
  • personal development
  • childrens
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • family
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  • science
"Society thrives on the diverse talents of its people."

-William Stixrud, The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

"The reality is that we become successful in this world by working hard at something that comes easily to us, and that engages us."

-William Stixrud, The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

Cover of The Opt-Out Family: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't by Erin Loechner

21. The Opt-Out Family: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't

By: Erin Loechner

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Discover a new and hopeful path forward as you consider your family's approach to social media, scr… read more

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14 must-read audiobook books like The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives by William Stixrud

Transform Your Habits

Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too

Adele Faber , Elaine Mazlish

3.97

Transform Your Habits

How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success

Julie Lythcott-Haims

4.46

Transform Your Habits

The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child

Daniel J. Siegel , Tina Payne Bryson , None

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

Becky Kennedy

4.55

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18 must-read audiobook books like The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

Transform Your Habits

The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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