How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
By: Paul Tough
3.50
Format: 93 pages, Hardcover
Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and succe…
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1. All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
By: Jennifer Senior
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. Award-winning journalist… read more
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"Children live life as a controlled experiment."-Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
"What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion"-Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
"The phrase "having it all" has little to do with having what we want."-Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
"Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive."-Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
2. 13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don't Do: Raising Self-Assured Children and Training Their Brains for a Life of Happiness, Meaning, and Success
By: Amy Morin
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
The author of the international bestseller 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Doturns her focus… read more
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3. Grit
By: Angela Duckworth
4.67
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth sho… read more
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4. Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
By: Ken Robinson , Lou Aronica
3.70
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary reappraisal of how to educate our children and young people by the New York Timesbe… read more
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5. 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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6. Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
By: Zaretta Lynn Hammond
4.27
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction To close the achievement… read more
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- teaching
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7. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
By: Paul Tough
3.50
Format: 93 pages, Hardcover
Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and succe… read more
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8. How Children Learn
By: John C. Holt
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
This enduring classic of educational thought offers teachers and parents deep, original insight int… read more
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9. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
By: Martin E.P. Seligman
4.48
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Known as the father of the new science of positive psychology, Martin E.P. Seligman draws on more t… read more
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10. Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
By: Rafe Esquith
3.59
Format: 251 pages,
From one of America's most celebrated educators, an inspiring guide to transforming every child's e… read more
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11. 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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12. Democracy and Education
By: John Dewey
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
In this book, written in 1916, Dewey tries to criticize and expand on the educational philosophies … read more
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13. Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Need of All Learners
By: Carol Ann Tomlinson
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Drawing on nearly three decades of experience, author Carol Ann Tomlinson describes a way of thinki… read more
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14. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
By: Annette Lareau
5.00
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth obs… read more
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15. 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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16. Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child
By: Ross W. Greene
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
In Raising Human Beings, the renowned child psychologist and New York Timesbestselling author of Lo… read more
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17. What Great Teachers Do Differently: Fourteen Things That Matter Most
By: Todd Whitaker
3.86
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
This book describes the beliefs, behaviors, attitudes, and interactions that form the fabric of lif… read more
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18. 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
19. Your Money or Your Life
By: Vicki Robin
3.81
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
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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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21. 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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"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
