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You Are Your Child’s First Teacher, Third Edition: Encouraging Your Child’s Natural Development from Birth to Age Six

by Rahima Baldwin Dancy

The first book in America to popularize the insights of Rudolf Steiner, founder of the Waldorf schools, regarding the developmental needs of young children, this revised and updated edition offers new ways for parents and educators to enrich the lives of children from birth to age six.

Today’s society often pressures us into overstimulating young children with flashcards, workbooks, videos and electronic gadgets in a well-meaning attempt to give them a head start. But children are not little adults—they learn and grow in radically different ways at different ages, and what we do to help could actually hurt instead.

Some of the most important learning years happen before your child reaches school. In You Are Your Child’s First Teacher, respected Waldorf educator Rahima Baldwin Dancy explains the different stages of learning that children go through from birth to age six, giving you the wisdom and understanding to enrich your child’s natural development in the right way at the right time.

A trusted classic for over 20 years, this newly revised edition contains updated resources and additional information on discipline, early childhood programs, toilet training, using home life as curriculum and more. From language and cognitive development to appropriate toys and nourishing your child’s artistic abilities, Dancy speaks up for a rational approach to child-rearing, one that helps children be children while we fulfill our important role as parents and first teachers.

The Ultimate Guide to Raising Teens and Tweens: Strategies for Unlocking Your Child’s Full Potential

by Douglas Haddad

Are you concerned or frustrated with the choices your child makes when it comes to their peer groups, study habits, and use of social media? Do you feel your child is pushing you away and your connection is weakening? Are you unsure of the next steps you should take to help your child succeed? A whole new set of parenting concerns arise during tween and teenhood that can be overwhelming for any parent. The Ultimate Guide to Raising Teens and Tweens offers a step-by-step plan for raising your adolescent through this tumultuous time. Douglas Haddad provides specific, proven tools for you to help your child become a problem solver and grow to be smart, successful and self-disciplined. In The Ultimate Guide to Raising Teens and Tweens, you will:

  • Discover the secrets of effective communication with your child

  • Learn the techniques to stop behavior problems right in their tracks when they happen

  • Know the strategies to best motivate your child and unlock their potential

  • Find out how to set appropriate limits and hold your child accountable for their actions

  • Understand today’s “child-limiting challenges” and the solutions for handling them with your child

Every parent wants the best for their child, and these years can be fraught with challenges: bullying, violence, gambling, sex, smoking, alcohol, substance use, eating disorders, depression, suicide, unhealthy eating, lack of physical activity, etc. Making sense of these challenges, this book offers exercises for incorporating the 10 child unlimited tools into your parenting style and anecdotes to illustrate strategies and techniques. Supported by current research, the tools found in these pages will serve as a guide for any family with tweens or teens.

Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child’s Education

by Susan Wise Bauer

Our K–12 school system isn’t a good fit for all—or even most—students. It prioritizes a single way of understanding the world over all others, pushes children into a rigid set of grades with little regard for individual maturity and slaps “disability” labels on differences in learning style. Caught in this system, far too many young learners end up discouraged.

This informed, compassionate and practical guidebook will show you how to take control of your child’s K–12 experience and negotiate the school system in a way that nurtures your child’s mind, emotions and spirit.

  • Understand why we have 12 grades and why we match them to ages.

  • Evaluate your child’s maturity, and determine how to use that knowledge to your advantage.

  • Find out what subject areas we study in school, why they exist—and how to tinker with them.

  • Discover what learning disabilities and intellectual giftedness are, how they can overlap, how to

  • recognize them and how those labels can help (or hinder) you.

  • Work effectively with your child’s teachers, tutors and coaches.

  • Learn to teach important subjects yourself.

  • Challenge accepted ideas about homework and standardized testing.

  • Help your child develop a vision for the future.

  • Reclaim your families’ priorities (including time for eating together, playing, imagining, traveling and, yes, sleeping!).

  • Plan for college—or apprenticeships.

  • Consider out-of-the-box alternatives.

A groundbreaking approach to building learning habits for life, based on a major new study revealing what works – and what doesn’t

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

by Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson

When facing contentious issues such as screen time, food choices and bedtime, children often act out or shut down, responding with reactivity instead of receptivity. This is what New York Times bestselling authors Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson call a No Brain response. But our kids can be taught to approach life with openness and curiosity. When kids work from a Yes Brain, they’re more willing to take chances and explore. They’re more curious and imaginative. They’re better at relationships and handling adversity. In The Yes Brain, the authors give parents skills, scripts and activities to bring kids of all ages into the beneficial “yes” state. You’ll learn the four fundamentals of the Yes Brain—balance, resilience, insight and empathy—and how to strengthen them the key to knowing when kids need a gentle push out of a comfort zone vs. needing the “cushion” of safety and familiarity strategies for navigating away from negative behavioral and emotional states (aggression and withdrawal) and expanding your child’s capacity for positivity

Between Parent and Child

by Dr. Haim G. Ginott

This revolutionary book offered a straightforward prescription for empathetic yet disciplined child rearing and introduced new communication techniques that would change the way parents spoke with, and listened to, their children. Dr. Ginott’s innovative approach to parenting has influenced an entire generation of experts in the field, and now his methods can work for you, too.


In this revised edition, Dr. Alice Ginott, clinical psychologist and wife of the late Haim Ginott, and family relationship specialist Dr. H. Wallace Goddard usher this bestselling classic into the new century while retaining the book’s positive message and Haim Ginott’s warm, accessible voice. Based on the theory that parenting is a skill that can be learned, this indispensable handbook will show you how to:

  • Discipline without threats, bribes, sarcasm and punishment

  • Criticize without demeaning, praise without judging and express anger without hurting

  • Acknowledge rather than argue with children’s feelings, perceptions and opinions

  • Respond so that children will learn to trust and develop self-confidence

The Learning Habit: A Groundbreaking Approach to Homework and Parenting that Helps Our Children Succeed in School and Life

by Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman, Rebecca Jackson, Robert Dr. Pressman

Life is different for kids today. Between standardized testing, the Common Core Curriculum, copious homework assignments and seemingly endless amounts of “screen time,” it’s hard for kids – and parents – to know what’s most essential. How can parents help their kids succeed – not just do well “on the test” — but develop the learning habits they’ll need to thrive throughout their lives?

This important and parent-friendly book presents new solutions based on the largest study of family routines ever conducted. The Learning Habit offers a blueprint for navigating the maze of homework, media use and the everyday stress that families with school-age children face; turning those “stress times” into opportunities to develop the eight critical skills kids will need to succeed in college and in the highly competitive job market of tomorrow – skills including concentration and focus, time management, decision-making, goal-setting and self-reliance. Along with hands-on advice and compelling real-life case studies, the book includes 21 fun family challenges for parents and kids, bringing together the latest research with simple everyday solutions to help kids thrive, academically and beyond.

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind

by Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson

In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson offer a revolutionary approach to child rearing with 12 key strategies that foster healthy brain development, leading to calmer, happier children. The authors explain—and make accessible—the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures. The “upstairs brain,” which makes decisions and balances emotions, is under construction until the mid-twenties. And especially in young children, the right brain and its emotions tend to rule over the logic of the left brain. No wonder kids throw tantrums, fight or sulk in silence. By applying these discoveries to everyday parenting, you can turn any outburst, argument or fear into a chance to integrate your child’s brain and foster vital growth.

Complete with age-appropriate strategies for dealing with day-to-day struggles and illustrations that will help you explain these concepts to your child, The Whole-Brain Child shows you how to cultivate healthy emotional and intellectual development so that your children can lead balanced, meaningful and connected lives.

The Read Aloud Handbook

by Jim Trelease

Reading aloud to children was once a common practice, and it is beginning to regain popularity again. Whether you have been reading to your children all along or have just decided to start, Trelease’s book is a great resource. It tells why you should read, why life is better with less television, how to read to kids of all ages and how to enjoy every minute of it. What is more, it has a comprehensive list of the best books to read to children, from picture books for the very young to chapter books for older children.