14 Best parenting books like Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down by Laura A. Sandefer

Cover of Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down by Laura A. Sandefer

Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

By: Laura A. Sandefer

4.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

Acton The one-room schoolhouse for the twenty-first centurySeeking a 21st century education for the…

If you liked the parenting plot in Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down by Laura A. Sandefer , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable... About Restoring Sanity To The Most Important Organization In Your Life by Patrick Lencioni

1. The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable... About Restoring Sanity To The Most Important Organization In Your Life

By: Patrick Lencioni

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A singularly relevant application of organizational leadership to the home and family In this uniqu… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Lencioni's The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable... About Restoring Sanity To The Most Important Organization In Your Life book and Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
Cover of Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education by Clark Aldrich

2. Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education

By: Clark Aldrich

3.94

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

The most powerful new ideas in education are coming from the families that have given up on schools… read more

Similar categories in Clark Aldrich's Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education book and Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education
Cover of Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids by Kim John Payne, Lisa M. Ross

3. Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids

By: Kim John Payne , Lisa M. Ross

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Today's busier, faster, supersized society is waging an undeclared war . . . on childhood. As the p… read more

Similar categories in Kim John Payne's Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids book and Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education
  • audiobook
Cover of NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman

4. NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

By: Po Bronson , Ashley Merryman

3.51

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is… read more

Similar categories in Po Bronson's NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children book and Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education
  • audiobook
Cover of Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers by Gabor Maté, Gordon Neufeld

5. Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

By: Gabor Maté , Gordon Neufeld

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

International authority on child development Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D., joins forces with bestselling a… read more

Similar categories in Gabor Maté's Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers book and Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education

6. The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else

By: Daniel Coyle , John Farrell

3.46

Format: None pages, Audio CD

A New York Times bestselling author explores cutting-edge brain science to learn where talent comes… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Coyle's The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else book and Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

  • nonfiction
  • education
Cover of The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined by Salman  Khan

7. The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

By: Salman Khan

4.08

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion… read more

Similar categories in Salman Khan's The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined book and Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • teaching
  • education
Cover of Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace by Sarah       Mackenzie

8. Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace

By: Sarah Mackenzie

3.81

Format: 225 pages, ebook

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Similar categories in Sarah Mackenzie's Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace book and Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

  • parenting
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook

9. The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More

By: Bruce Feiler

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In The Secrets of Happy Families, New York Times bestselling author Bruce Feiler has drawn up a blu… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Feiler's The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More book and Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

10. The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

By: Amanda Ripley

3.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Through the compelling stories of three American teenagers living abroad and attending the world's … read more

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11. 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

Similar categories in Peter O. Gray's Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life book and Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

12. The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands

By: Lysa TerKeurst

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Are you living with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule and aching with the sadness of an underwh… read more

Similar categories in Lysa TerKeurst's The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands book and Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

13. Nory Ryan's Song (Nory Ryan, #1)

By: Patricia Reilly Giff

3.95

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a … read more

Similar categories in Patricia Reilly Giff's Nory Ryan's Song (Nory Ryan, #1) book and Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

Cover of Homeschool Bravely: How to Squash Doubt, Trust God, and Teach Your Child with Confidence by Jamie Erickson

14. Homeschool Bravely: How to Squash Doubt, Trust God, and Teach Your Child with Confidence

By: Jamie Erickson

4.36

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Quiet the voices of "not good enough" and step courageously into guilt-free homeschooling Many home… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Erickson's Homeschool Bravely: How to Squash Doubt, Trust God, and Teach Your Child with Confidence book and Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education
  • audiobook
Cover of Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up by Abigail Shrier

15. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Shrier's Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up book and Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education
  • audiobook
"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

Cover of The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being by Simone Davies

16. 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

Similar categories in Simone Davies's The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being book and Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education
  • audiobook
Cover of Until the Streetlights Come On: How a Return to Play Brightens Our Present and Prepares Kids for an Uncertain Future by Ginny Yurich

17. Until the Streetlights Come On: How a Return to Play Brightens Our Present and Prepares Kids for an Uncertain Future

By: Ginny Yurich

4.36

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

It may shock you to learn that we spend an average of 4-7 minutes outside each day--while we spend … read more

Similar categories in Ginny Yurich's Until the Streetlights Come On: How a Return to Play Brightens Our Present and Prepares Kids for an Uncertain Future book and Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education
  • audiobook
Cover of 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success by Liz Moody

18. 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success

By: Liz Moody

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of The Liz Moody Podcast comes a science-backed guide to creating your best life. … read more

Similar categories in Liz Moody's 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success book and Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

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

19. 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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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education
  • audiobook
"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 Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down by Laura A. Sandefer

20. Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

By: Laura A. Sandefer

4.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

Acton The one-room schoolhouse for the twenty-first centurySeeking a 21st century education for the… read more

Similar categories in Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down book and Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

  • parenting
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
Cover of The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori by Cristina De Stefano

21. The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori

By: Cristina De Stefano

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fresh, comprehensive biography of the pioneering educator and activist who changed the way we loo… read more

Similar categories in Cristina De Stefano's The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori book and Laura A. Sandefer's Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • education

10 Top audiobook books like Courage to Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down by Laura A. Sandefer

Transform Your Habits

Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids

Kim John Payne , Lisa M. Ross

3.77

Transform Your Habits

NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

Po Bronson , Ashley Merryman

3.51

Transform Your Habits

Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace

Sarah Mackenzie

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Homeschool Bravely: How to Squash Doubt, Trust God, and Teach Your Child with Confidence

Jamie Erickson

4.36

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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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