Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

10 best books like Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers (Gordon Neufeld): Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent, For the Children's Sake, Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life, Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Parenting From the Inside Out, The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life, Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting, Playful Parenting, Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

AuthorMeredith Small
ISBN0385483627
New parents are faced with innumerable decisions to make regarding the best way to care for their baby, and, naturally, they often turn for guidance to friends and family members who have already raised children. But as scientists are discovering, much of the trusted advice that has been passed down...
AuthorSusan Schaeffer Macaulay
Every parent and teacher wants to give their children the best education possible. Everyone would like education to be a joyous adventure and celebration of life, as well as a solid preparation for living. Sadly, most education today falls far short of this goal.

But as Susan Schaeffer Macaulay...
Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
AuthorPeter O. Gray
ISBN0465025994
Our children spend their days being passively instructed, and made to sit still and take tests—often against their will. We call this imprisonment schooling, yet wonder why kids become bored and misbehave. Even outside of school children today seldom play and explore without adult supervision,...
Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It
AuthorDr. Gabor Maté
ISBN0452279631
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) has quickly become a controversial topic in recent years. Whereas other books on the subject describe the condition as inherited, Dr. Gabor Maté believes that our social and emotional environments play a key role in both the cause of and cure for this condition. In...
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
AuthorDr. Gabor Maté
ISBN0676977405
He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treating the drug addicts of Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside with sympathy in his heart and legislative reform in mind can't be easy. But Maté never judges. His book is a powerful call-to-arms,...
AuthorDaniel J. Siegel
ISBN1585422959
How many parents have found themselves thinking: I can't believe I just said to my child the very thing my parents used to say to me! Am I just destined to repeat the mistakes of my parents? In Parenting from the Inside Out, child psychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and early childhood expert Mary Hartzell,...
The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
AuthorJulie Bogart
ISBN0143133225
A joyful and accessible approach to homeschooling that harnesses children's natural curiosity and makes learning a part of everyday life, whether they're in elementary or high school

Parents who are deeply invested in their children's education can be hard on themselves and their kids....
AuthorMyla Kabat-Zinn
ISBN0786883146
The bestselling author of the million-copy bestseller Wherever You Go, There You Are and Full Catastrophe Living joins forces with his wife, Myla, in this revised edition of their groundbreaking book about mindfulness in parenting children of all ages.
Updated with new material -- including...
AuthorLawrence J. Cohen
ISBN0345442865

Have you ever stepped back to watch what really goes on when your children play? As psychologist Lawrence J. Cohen points out, play is children’s way of exploring the world, communicating deep feelings, getting close to those they care about, working through stressful situations, and simply...
AuthorAlfie Kohn
ISBN0743487486
Most parenting guides begin with the question "How can we get kids to do what they're told?" — and then proceed to offer various techniques for controlling them. In this truly groundbreaking book, nationally respected educator Alfie Kohn begins instead by asking "What do kids need — and how can...
AuthorWilliam Sears
ISBN0316778095
America's foremost baby and childcare experts, William Sears M.D. and Martha Sears, R.N., explain the benefits--to both you and your child--of connecting with your baby early.
Might you and your baby both sleep better if you shared a bed? How old is too old for breastfeeding? What is a father's...
AuthorJean Liedloff
ISBN0201050714
A landmark treatise on how humanity lives versus how we should, what we've lost with our "progress," and how we can reclaim our true nature
Jean Liedloff, an American writer, spent two and a half years in the South American jungle living with Stone Age Indians. The experience demolished her Western...
Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
AuthorAdele Faber
ISBN0393342212
Already best-selling authors with How to Talk So Kids Will Listen Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish turned their minds to the battle of the siblings. Parents themselves, they were determined to figure out how to help their children get along. The result was Siblings Without Rivalry....
Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
AuthorKris Newby
ISBN0062932705
A riveting thriller reminiscent of The Hot Zone, this true story dives into the mystery surrounding one of the most controversial and misdiagnosed conditions of our time-Lyme disease-and of Willy Burgdorfer, the man who discovered the microbe behind it, revealing his secret role in developing bug-borne...
Rest, Play, Grow: Making Sense of Preschoolers (Or Anyone Who Acts Like One
AuthorDeborah MacNamara
Based on the work of one of the world’s foremost child development experts, Rest, Play, Grow offers a developmental road map to adults and is what every toddler, preschooler, and kindergartner wished their adults understood about them.
Baffling and beloved, with the capacity to go from joy...
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
AuthorDr. Gabor Maté
ISBN0676973124
In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical doctor and bestselling author Gabor Maté shows that emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness, including breast cancer, prostate cancer, multiple sclerosis...
Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children
AuthorAngela J. Hanscom
ISBN1626253730
In this important book, a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of TimberNook shows how outdoor play and unstructured freedom of movement are vital for children’s cognitive development and growth, and offers tons of fun, engaging ways to help ensure that kids grow into healthy, balanced,...
The Awakened Family: A Revolution in Parenting
AuthorShefali Tsabary
ISBN0399563962
"Parents . . . you will be wowed and awed by [Dr. Shefali]." —Oprah Winfrey

New from the New York Times bestselling author of The Conscious Parent comes a radically transformative plan that shows parents how to raise children to be their best, truest selves.

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