10 Mindful Minutes: Giving Our Children--and Ourselves--the Social and Emotional Skills to Reduce Stress and Anxiety for Healthier, Happy Lives
10 best books like 10 Mindful Minutes: Giving Our Children--and Ourselves--the Social and Emotional Skills to Reduce Stress and Anxiety for Healthier, Happy Lives (Goldie Hawn): Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It, The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive, Travels in the Scriptorium, The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children, Me, Myself, and Them: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Schizophrenia, The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child, How to be a Happier Parent: Raising a Family, Having a Life, and Loving (Almost) Every Minute, Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them, The MindUP Curriculum: Grades PreK–2: Brain-Focused Strategies for Learning—and Living, Mind Time
Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It
Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as “more than a terrific movie—it's an important movie.” Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan...
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive
| Author | Daniel J. Siegel |
| ISBN | 0553807919 |
Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Your fifth-grader sulks on the bench instead of playing on the field. Do children conspire to make their parents’ lives endlessly challenging? No—it’s just their developing brain calling the shots!
In...
Travels in the Scriptorium
| Author | Paul Auster |
| ISBN | 0805081453 |
A man pieces together clues to his past--and the identity of his captors--in this fantastic, labyrinthine novel
An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the relics on the desk, examining the circumstances...
The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children
| Author | Shefali Tsabary |
| ISBN | 1897238452 |
It’s a tremendous privilege to raise children, though for a quite different reason than most of us who are parents imagine.
While we think it’s our responsibility to mold and shape our children’s future, the essential premise of Dr. Shefali Tsabary’s A Call to Conscious Parenting...
| Author | Kurt Snyder |
| ISBN | 0195311221 |
During his second semester at college, Kurt Snyder became convinced that he was about to discover a fabulously important mathematical principle, spending hours lost in daydreams about numbers and symbols. In time, his thoughts took a darker turn, and he became preoccupied with the idea that cars...
The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child
| Author | Daniel J. Siegel |
| ISBN | 0399594663 |
From the authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, an indispensable guide to unlocking your child's innate capacity for resilience, compassion, and creativity.
When facing contentious issues such as screen time, food choices, and bedtime, children often act out or shut...
How to be a Happier Parent: Raising a Family, Having a Life, and Loving (Almost) Every Minute
An encouraging guide to helping parents find more happiness in their day-to-day family life, from the former lead editor of the
New York Times
Motherlode
blog.
In all the writing and reporting KJ Dell'Antonia has done on families over the years, one topic keeps coming up again and...
Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them
| Author | Ross W. Greene |
| ISBN | 1416572260 |
From a distinguished clinician, pioneer in working with behaviorally challenging kids, and author of the acclaimed The Explosive Child comes a groundbreaking approach for understanding and helping these kids and transforming school discipline.
Frequent visits to the principal's office....
The MindUP Curriculum: Grades PreK–2: Brain-Focused Strategies for Learning—and Living
| Author | Hawn Foundation |
| ISBN | 0545267129 |
This research-based curriculum features 15 lessons that use the latest information about the brain to dramatically improve behavior and learning for all students. Each lesson offers easy strategies for helping students focus their attention, improve their self-regulation skills, build resilience...
| Author | Michael Chaskalson |
| ISBN | 0008252831 |
It takes just 10 minutes a day to train your mind - you will feel more awake, more alive and more creative. Using these carefully researched exercises, you can increase your attention span, realise your potential and use your mind to its full capacity. Yes, just 10 short minutes. Nearly half of our waking...
Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again
| Author | Kimberly Williams-Paisley |
| ISBN | 1101902957 |
Many know Kimberly Williams-Paisley as the bride in the popular Steve Martin remakes of the Father of the Bride movies, the calculating Peggy Kenter on Nashville, or the wife of country music artist, Brad Paisley. But behind the scenes, Kim was dealing with a tragic secret: her mother, Linda,...
How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature
| Author | Scott D. Sampson |
| ISBN | 0544279328 |
From the beloved host of PBS Kids’ Dinosaur Train, an easy-to-use guide for parents, teachers, and others looking to foster a strong connection between children and nature, complete with engaging activities, troubleshooting advice, and much more
American children spend four to seven...
Brainstorm: The Teenage Brain from the Inside Out
In this groundbreaking book, the bestselling author of *Parenting from the Inside Out* and *The Whole-Brain Child* shows parents how to turn one of the most challenging developmental periods in their children's lives into one of the most rewarding. Between the ages of 12 and 24, the brain changes in...
Living with a Black Dog: His Name Is Depression
| Author | Matthew Johnstone |
| ISBN | 0740757431 |
One in four women and one in six men will suffer from depression at least once in their life. Few are immune. It was the greatly admired Winston Churchill, a depression sufferer for much of his life, who nicknamed this human condition "Black Dog."
Living with a Black Dog is perhaps the most useful...
| Author | Matthew Johnstone |
| ISBN | 1780331185 |
Another little book of brilliance from Matthew Johnstone!
This book acts as a beginner's guide to stilling the mind and lapsing into meditation. The beautiful illustrations, muted colours and limited text helped to hone my thoughts and focus on the task at hand. Each page had controlling...
Make Your Worrier a Warrior: A Guide to Conquering Your Child's Fears
| Author | Dan Peters |
| ISBN | 1935067230 |
With this award-winning book, parents can team up with their children or teens to help them do the most courageous thing they will ever have to do: conquer their Worry Monster. Make Your Worrier a Warrior provides useful and comforting methods that parents can use to help their children create an anxiety-reducing...
Counselling Adolescents: The Pro-Active Approach
| Author | David Geldard |
| ISBN | 1412902355 |
Praise for the First Edition
`This book would be a valuable resource for trainee counsellors. It would also serve to enhance the work of experienced practitioners, particularly if they are more familiar with counselling adults or children and would like to build on this by developing their...
Counselling Children: A Practical Introduction
| Author | Kathryn Geldard |
| ISBN | 1412948347 |
In this Third Edition of their bestselling text, Kathryn Geldard and David Geldard provide a practical introduction to the principles and practices required for successful counseling, to show that working with young people can be both challenging and effective. The Third Edition has been completely...
