Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents
10 best books like Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents (Christine Carter): How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm: And Other Adventures in Parenting (from Argentina to Tanzania and everywhere in between), Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times, Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs, Playful Learning: Develop Your Child's Sense of Joy and Wonder, Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood, Connection Parenting: Parenting Through Connection Instead of Coercion, Through Love Instead of Fear, The Case For Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World, The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections, I Love Dirt!: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Kids Discover the Wonders of Nature, Calm and Compassionate Children: A Handbook
A tour of global practices that will inspire American parents to expand their horizons (and geographical borders) and learn that there’s more than one way to diaper a baby.Mei-Ling Hopgood, a first-time mom from suburban Michigan—now living in Buenos Aires—was shocked that Argentine parents...
| Author | Zoe Weil |
| ISBN | 0865714932 |
Above All, Be Kind teaches parents how to raise their children to be humane in the broadest sense—to become not only more compassionate in their interactions with family and friends, but to grow up to make life choices that demonstrate respect for the environment, other species, and all people. The...
“Ellen Galinsky—already the go-to person on interaction between families and the workplace—draws on fresh research to explain what we ought to be teaching our children. This is must-reading for everyone who cares about America’s fate in the 21st century.”
— Judy Woodruff, Senior...
| Author | Mariah Bruehl |
| ISBN | 1590308190 |
Children are natural scientists, artists, mathematicians, authors, and scholars. From the time they are born they seek out information about the world around them in an effort to construct meaning and further their development. While children have an inherent drive to make sense of their reality,...
| Author | Karen Maezen Miller |
| ISBN | 1590302966 |
Combining humor, honesty, and plainspoken advice, Momma Zen distills the doubts and frustrations of parenting into vignettes of Zen wisdom.
Drawing on her experience as a first-time mother, and on her years of Zen meditation and study, Miller explores how the daily challenges of parenthood...
| Author | Pam Leo |
| ISBN | 1932279172 |
"Connection Parenting" is based on author Pam Leo's seven week parenting series, "Meeting the Needs of Children," that she has been teaching for over sixteen years. The premise is that a strong parent-child bond is the key to children's optimal human development and our most effective parenting tool....
| Author | Susan Linn |
| ISBN | 1565849701 |
In The Case for Make Believe, Harvard child psychologist Susan Linn tells the alarming story of childhood under siege in a commercialized and technology-saturated world. Although play is essential to human development and children are born with an innate capacity for make believe, Linn argues that,...
| Author | Amanda Blake Soule |
| ISBN | 1590304713 |
When you learn to awaken your family’s creativity, wonderful things will happen: you’ll make meaningful connections with your children in large and small ways; your children will more often engage in their own creative discoveries; and your family will embrace new ways to relax, play, and grow...
| Author | Jennifer Ward |
| ISBN | 1590305353 |
I Love Dirt! presents 52 open-ended activities to help you engage your child in the outdoors. No matter what your location—from a small patch of green in the city to the wide-open meadows of the country—each activity is meant to promote exploration, stimulate imagination, and heighten a child's...
| Author | Susan Usha Dermond |
| ISBN | 1587612763 |
Building on such inherent qualities as openheartedness and trust, parents and teachers can help children develop empathy and integrity as they grow and mature. From nature activities to conscious quiet time to tips on daily routines, CALM AND COMPASSIONATE CHILDREN provides practical guidance...
| Author | Dale McGowan |
| ISBN | 0814410960 |
Dale McGowan's popular and compassionate guide Parenting Beyond Belief was the first comprehensive book to offer a general philosophy of nonreligious parenting. Raising Freethinkers is a practical sequel, providing specific answers to common questions and more than 100 activities for parents...
| Author | Laura Davis |
| ISBN | 0553067508 |
Informative, inspiring, and enlightening, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be provides parents with the building blocks they need to discover their own parenting philosophy and develop effective parenting strategies. Through in-depth information, practical suggestions, and many lively...
| Author | Lawrence J. Cohen |
| ISBN | 0345442865 |
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...
| Author | Sura Hart |
| ISBN | 1892005220 |
More than a tool to correct bad behavior, this handbook urges parents to move beyond typical discipline techniques by creating an environment based on mutual respect, emotional safety, and positive, open communication. The seven outlined principles redefine the parent-dominated family by...
| Author | Bobbi Conner |
| ISBN | 0761143904 |
From the joy of smearing glue on paper to the screaming delight of a bubble-blowing relay, kids love to play. In fact, it's every kid's built-in tool for experiencing the world at large. A parent-friendly encyclopedia, UNPLUGGED PLAY ("A wonderful guide," says Daniel Goleman) offers hundreds and...
| Author | Mary Sheedy Kurcinka |
| ISBN | 0060930438 |
End Those Power Struggles and Begin Connecting with Your Child
Noted family educator Mary Sheedy Kurcinka struck a national chord with her bestselling Raising Your Spirited Child. Now she hits upon another crucial parenting topic: coping with the everyday challenges of disciplining your...
| Author | Dan Kindlon |
| ISBN | 0786886242 |
This book reminds parents the real cost of living in an age of affluence . . . potential damage to your child's character. Though money can provide health care, enriching experiences and vacations, money can not buy character and can lead to "luxury fever". Kids that have too much often begin to feel entitled...
| Author | Robert B. Brooks |
| ISBN | 0809297655 |
TOP CHILD PSYCHOLOGISTS OFFER EXPERT INSIGHT AND PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR RAISING STRONG KIDS IN TODAY'S COMPLICATED WORLD
"Thoughtful and sound in its approach, practical and clear in its suggestions, direct and supportive in its tone, Raising Resilient Children is the perfect book for...
| Author | Edward M. Hallowell |
| ISBN | 0345442334 |
Here, at last, is a book brimming with the good news of raising children--the basic reassuring news about happiness and unconditional love, about enduring family connections and kids who grow up right. Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., father of three and a clinical psychiatrist, has thought long and hard...
| Author | David Elkind |
| ISBN | 0738210536 |
In modern childhood, free, unstructured play time is being replaced more and more by academics, lessons, competitive sports, and passive, electronic entertainment. While parents may worry that their children will be at a disadvantage if they are not engaged in constant, explicit learning or using...
| Author | Michael G. Thompson |
Friends broaden our children's horizons, share their joys and secrets, and accompany them on their journeys into ever wider worlds. But friends can also gossip and betray, tease and exclude. Children can cause untold suffering, not only for their peers but for parents as well. In this wise and insightful...
| Author | Madeline Levine |
| ISBN | 0062196685 |
Psychologist Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestseller The Price of Privilege, brings together cutting-edge research and thirty years of clinical experience to explode once and for all the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting...
| Author | Pam Allyn |
| ISBN | 1583333347 |
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The books to read aloud to children at the important moments in their lives.
In What to Read When, award-winning educator Pam Allyn celebrates the power of reading aloud with children. In many ways, books provide the first opportunity for...
| Author | Laurie David |
| ISBN | 0446565466 |
The producer of An Inconvenient Truth, Laurie David's new mission is to help America's overwhelmed families sit down to a Family Dinner, and she provides all the reasons, recipes and fun tools to do so.
Laurie David speaks from her own experience confronting the challenges of raising two teenage...
| Author | Meagan Francis |
| ISBN | 1616280603 |
You can be a great parent while still enjoying yourself. From the experts at Parenting magazine and popular mommy blogger Meagan Francis, The Happiest Mom brings the latest happiness research--and the experience of a mother of five--to moms who want to make parenting a little more joyful. With its...
