19 must-read nonfiction books like What Do You Say?: How to Talk with Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home by William Stixrud

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What Do You Say?: How to Talk with Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home

By: William Stixrud

4.40

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A guide to effectively communicating with teenagers by the bestselling authors of The Self-Driven C…

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1. The Road to Character

By: David Brooks

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the scales between the focus… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"... there are other proud people who have low self-esteem. They feel they haven't lived up to their potential. They feel unworthy. They want to hide and disappear, to fade into the background and nur…"

-David Brooks, The Road to Character

"We are called at certain moments to comfort people who are enduring some trauma. Many of us don't know how to react in such situations, but others do. In the first place, they just show up. They prov…"

-David Brooks, The Road to Character

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2. Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

By: Lisa Damour

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Lisa Damour, Ph.D., director of the internationally renowned Laurel Sch… read more

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  • self help
  • parenting
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • education
  • audiobook
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3. Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

By: Alfie Kohn

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Most parenting guides begin with the question "How can we get kids to do what they're told?" -- and… read more

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  • parenting
  • childrens
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • education
  • self help
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4. 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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  • self help
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
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5. 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
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired by Daniel J. Siegel

6. The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired

By: Daniel J. Siegel

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Parenting isn't easy. Showing up is. Your greatest impact begins right where you are. Now the bests… read more

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  • self help
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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7. 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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  • self help
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • teaching
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • education
  • audiobook
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8. Protecting Her Heart (Matchmakers #3)

By: Nancy Campbell Allen

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

London, 1887 When newly graduated medical doctor Charlotte Duvall receives word that her father ha… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents by Lisa Damour

9. The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents

By: Lisa Damour

4.47

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ in… read more

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  • self help
  • parenting
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • education
  • audiobook
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10. Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls

By: Lisa Damour

4.30

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgently needed guide to the alarming increase in anxiety and stress… read more

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  • self help
  • parenting
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
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11. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

By: Bettina L. Love

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • teaching
  • education
  • audiobook
Cover of Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors by Robyn Gobbel

12. Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors

By: Robyn Gobbel

4.67

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"All behavior makes sense" '"I t most certainly does not!", is probably your first reaction. Paren… read more

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  • audiobook
  • parenting
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money by Ron Lieber

13. The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money

By: Ron Lieber

3.84

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

In the spirit of Wendy Mogel’s The Blessing of a Skinned Knee and Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman’s … read more

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  • self help
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • education
  • audiobook
"They just want to know what we stand for; our spending choices is one way that we articulate this."

-Ron Lieber, The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money

"Curiosity, patience, thrift, modesty, generosity, perseverance, and perspective - don't belong to any one religion, region, or race."

-Ron Lieber, The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money

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14. This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained

By: Cara Natterson

4.28

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

The ultimate roadmap for adults helping tweens and teens navigate the rollercoaster of puberty. … read more

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  • self help
  • parenting
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • education
  • audiobook
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15. How to raise kids who aren’t assholes

By: Melinda Wenner Moyer

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes is a clear, actionable, sometimes humorous (but always scien… read more

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  • self help
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • education
  • audiobook
Cover of Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD: A Scientifically Proven Program for Parents by Eli R. Lebowitz

16. Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD: A Scientifically Proven Program for Parents

By: Eli R. Lebowitz

4.22

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Parenting an anxious child means facing constant challenges and When should parents help children … read more

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  • self help
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Raising Mentally Strong Kids: How to Combine the Power of Neuroscience with Love and Logic to Grow Confident, Kind, Responsible, and Resilient Children and Young Adults by Daniel G. Amen

17. Raising Mentally Strong Kids: How to Combine the Power of Neuroscience with Love and Logic to Grow Confident, Kind, Responsible, and Resilient Children and Young Adults

By: Daniel G. Amen

4.14

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

Parenting is about to get easier--and a whole lot more effective…. In a time when so many children … read more

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  • self help
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Thrivers

By: Michele Borba

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The bestselling author of UnSelfie explains why the old markers of accomplishment (grades, test sco… read more

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  • parenting
  • childrens
  • teaching
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
Cover of Decoding Boys: New Science Behind the Subtle Art of Raising Sons by Cara Natterson

19. Decoding Boys: New Science Behind the Subtle Art of Raising Sons

By: Cara Natterson

3.90

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When boys enter puberty, they tend to get quiet—or at least quieter than before—and parents often m… read more

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  • self help
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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20. What Do You Say?: How to Talk with Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home

By: William Stixrud

4.40

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A guide to effectively communicating with teenagers by the bestselling authors of The Self-Driven C… read more

Similar categories in William Stixrud's What Do You Say?: How to Talk with Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home book and William Stixrud's What Do You Say?: How to Talk with Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home

  • communication
  • self help
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • teaching
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • education
  • audiobook
Cover of A Swarm of Butterflies (Nell Ward, #6) by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett

21. A Swarm of Butterflies (Nell Ward, #6)

By: Sarah Yarwood-Lovett

4.09

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

A brand-new book in the Dr Nell Ward mystery series. read more

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  • audiobook

20 must-read audiobook books like What Do You Say?: How to Talk with Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home by William Stixrud

Transform Your Habits

The Road to Character

David Brooks

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

Lisa Damour

3.98

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

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

Becky Kennedy

4.55

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22 Best audiobook books like Decoding Boys: New Science Behind the Subtle Art of Raising Sons by Cara Natterson

Transform Your Habits

Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

Lisa Damour

3.98

Transform Your Habits

How to Hug a Porcupine: Negotiating the Prickly Points of the Tween Years

Julie A. Ross

4.20

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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

Memory Piece

Lisa Ko

3.22

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