14 Top nonfiction books like Free-Range Kids: How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow by Lenore Skenazy

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Free-Range Kids: How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow

By: Lenore Skenazy

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1. 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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2. Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men

By: Leonard Sax

5.00

Format: 229 pages,

Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on ave… read more

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3. Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

By: Joel Salatin

4.89

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

From farmer Joel Salatin's point of view, life in the 21st century just ain't normal. In FOLKS, THI… read more

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4. How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature

By: Scott D. Sampson

3.00

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved host of PBS Kids' Dinosaur Train,an easy-to-use guide for parents, teachers, and o… read more

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5. 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

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6. 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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"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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7. Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

By: Lucy Jones

4.54

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and … read more

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  • parenting
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8. 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

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  • parenting
"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

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9. 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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"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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10. 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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  • parenting
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11. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more

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  • parenting
"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

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12. 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

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  • parenting
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13. The Four-Hour School Day: How You and Your Kids Can Thrive in the Homeschool Life

By: Durenda Wilson

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Giving your child a quality education experience for a life of happiness and purpose is possible--a… read more

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  • parenting
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14. When We're Thirty

By: Casey Dembowski

3.60

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Two friends. One pact. The performance of their lives. Hannah Abbott is stuck in a dead-end relatio… read more

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15. 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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16. This Motherless Land

By: Nikki May

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Wahala, a “vibrant” (Charmaine Wilkerson) retelling of Mansfield Park,… read more

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17. 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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  • parenting
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18. The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius

By: Kendra Adachi

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way brings her beloved Kind Big Sister Ene… read more

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19. Childhood Unplugged: Practical Advice to Get Kids Off Screens and Find Balance

By: Katherine Johnson Martinko

3.79

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Ditch the devices and bring back the magic of being a kid Screens are everywhere. Children spend an… read more

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  • parenting
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20. Free-Range Kids: How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow

By: Lenore Skenazy

3.95

Format: None pages, Audio CD

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21. One Foggy Christmas

By: Kortney Keisel

4.64

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

What if the person you shared your life with couldn't remember you anymore? Nash Carter is devas… read more

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4.54

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4.06

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

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4.46

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