It's OK Not to Share and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids
10 best books like It's OK Not to Share and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids (Heather Shumaker): Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer, Who Was Harry Houdini?, The Explosive Child, Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life, How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7, Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting, No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame, Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
| Author | Elizabeth Kolbert |
| ISBN | 1596911301 |
Long known for her insightful and thought-provoking political journalism, author Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial and increasingly urgent subject of global warming. In what began as groundbreaking three-part series in the New Yorker, for which she won a National Magazine Award...
The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
| Author | Harvey Karp |
| ISBN | 0553588729 |
In perhaps the most important parenting book of the decade, Dr. Harvey Karp reveals an extraordinary treasure sought by parents for centuries --an automatic “off-switch” for their baby’s crying.
No wonder pediatricians across the country are praising him and thousands of Los Angeles...
| Author | Tui T. Sutherland |
| ISBN | 0448426862 |
Every kid has heard of Harry Houdini, the famous magician who could escape from handcuffs, jail cells, and locked trunks. But do they know that the ever-ambitious and adventurous Houdini was also a famous movie star and the first pilot to fly a plane in Australia? This well-told biography is full of the...
A groundbreaking approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other intractable behaviours, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in this field, now updated to include the most recent research. Almost everyone knows an explosive child,...
Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
| Author | Peter O. Gray |
| ISBN | 0465025994 |
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,...
How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
| Author | Joanna Faber |
| ISBN | 1501131656 |
A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction by Adele Faber, coauthor of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, the international mega-bestseller The Boston Globe dubbed “The Parenting Bible.”
For over thirty-five years,...
Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting
| Author | Laura Markham |
| ISBN | 0399160280 |
A groundbreaking guide to raising responsible, capable, happy kids
Based on the latest research on brain development and extensive clinical experience with parents, Dr. Laura Markham’s approach is as simple as it is effective. Her message: Fostering emotional connection with your...
No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain Child and The Yes Brain tackle the ultimate parenting challenge: discipline.
Highlighting the fascinating link between a child's neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior, No-Drama Discipline...
No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame
| Author | Janet Lansbury |
| ISBN | 1499351119 |
Janet Lansbury is unique among parenting experts. As a RIE teacher and student of pioneering child specialist Magda Gerber, her advice is not based solely on formal studies and the research of others, but also on her twenty years of hands-on experience guiding hundreds of parents and their toddlers....
| Author | Alfie Kohn |
| ISBN | 0743487486 |
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...
| Author | Gordon Neufeld |
| ISBN | 0375760288 |
International authority on child development Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D., joins forces with bestselling author Gabor Maté, M.D., to tackle one of the most disturbing trends of our time: Children today looking to their peers for direction—their values, identity, and codes of behavior. This “peer...
Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
| Author | Adele Faber |
| ISBN | 0393342212 |
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....
There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)
| Author | Linda Åkeson McGurk |
“A perfect antidote to the hyper-vigilant, extra-electrified, standardized-tested, house-arrested, 21st-century childhood.” —Richard Louv, bestselling author of Last Child in the Woods and Vitamin N
Bringing Up Bébé meets Last Child in the Woods in this lively, insightful...
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...
Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry
| Author | Lenore Skenazy |
| ISBN | 0470471948 |
FREE RANGE KIDS has become a national movement, sparked by the incredible response to Lenore Skenazy's piece about allowing her 9-year-old ride the subway alone in NYC. Parent groups argued about it, bloggers, blogged, spouses became uncivil with each other, and the media jumped all over it. A lot...
Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right
| Author | Jamie Glowacki |
| ISBN | 1501122983 |
Jamie Glowacki—potty-training expert, Pied Piper of Poop, and author of the popular guide, Oh Crap! Potty Training—shares her proven 6-step plan to help you toilet train your preschooler quickly and successfully.
Let Jamie Glowacki, potty-training expert and the popular "Pied Piper...
Rest, Play, Grow: Making Sense of Preschoolers (Or Anyone Who Acts Like One
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...
Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children
| Author | Angela J. Hanscom |
| ISBN | 1626253730 |
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,...
| Author | Lissa Halls Johnson |
| ISBN | 1589970918 |
LISSA HALLS JOHNSON is the author of novels for teens, tweens and young adults. Formerly a book producer at Focus on the Family, she was the creator, editor and writer for the Brio girls series and for the Kid Witness book series. She has contributed to Reader’s Digest, Brio, Breakaway, Focus on the...
Who Were the Wright Brothers?
| Author | James Buckley Jr. |
| ISBN | 0448479516 |
As young boys, Orville and Wilbur Wright loved all things mechanical.
As young men, they gained invaluable skills essential for their success by working with printing presses, bicycles, motors, and any sort of machinery they could get their hands on.
As adults, the brothers...
Trim Healthy Mama -- No More Fads!
TRIM HEALTHY MAMA is more than a nutrition book, although you'll be armed with knowledge that will revolutionize your life. It is more than a recipe book, although you will find hundreds of quick and tasty recipes to satisfy your family and trim your waistline at the same time. Serene and Pearl coach you...
| Author | Geoff Edgers |
| ISBN | 0448482363 |
Stanley Lieber was just seventeen when he got his first job at Timely Comics in 1939. Since then, the man now known as Stan Lee has launched a comic book empire, made Marvel Comics a household name, and created iconic superheroes such as Iron Man, Spider-Man, and the Fantastic Four. Stan Lee is still dreaming...
| Author | Jane O'Connor |
| ISBN | 1524784036 |
The polo player with the raised mallet--everyone knows the Ralph Lauren logo. Learn the amazing story of the man who is a true American fashion icon.
Born in the Bronx, even as a teenager Ralph Lauren was known for his distinctive fashion sense, having a taste for both classic preppy clothes...
Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?
| Author | Megan Stine |
| ISBN | 1524786268 |
Who doesn't love a great mystery? This book presents the eerie accidents and unexplained disappearances that have occurred in the region known as the Bermuda Triangle.
Even before it was named, the Bermuda Triangle--roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico--had gained a mythic...
| Author | Roberta Edwards |
| ISBN | 0448443600 |
Ever since Howard Carter uncovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, the young pharaoh has become a symbol of the wealth and mystery of ancient Egypt. Now, a two-and-a-half-year-long museum exhibit of Tut’s treasures is touring major cities in the U.S., drawing record crowds.
This Who...
| Author | Gail Herman |
| ISBN | 0451533909 |
A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event--the Holocaust.
The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps--six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis,...
| Author | Megan Stine |
| ISBN | 0515159611 |
What's left of Machu Picchu stands as the most significant link to the marvelous Inca civilization of Peru. Now readers can explore these ruins in this compelling Where Is? title.
Built in the fifteenth century and tucked away in the mountains of Peru, Machu Picchu was abandoned after the Spaniards...
Isabelle is excited about starting her first year at Anna Hart School of the Arts, but her classmates are so talented -- especially her older sister, Jade. Isabelle loves ballet, but she wonders if she'll always be dancing in her sister's shadow.
Isabelle's mood takes a leap when her mom asks...
| Author | Nancy Butcher |
| ISBN | 0007144490 |
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Secrets of Our Nation's Capital: Weird and Wonderful Facts About Washington, DC
| Author | Sterling Children's |
| ISBN | 1454920033 |
Let’s visit Washington, DC—and learn some cool secrets about America’s capital! This book goes behind the scenes to uncover a treasure trove of little-known facts that will fascinate both kids and adults. Find out about the ghost cat that lives in the Capitol basement, why a bust of Lincoln has...
