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Teach Your Children Well: Why Values and Coping Skills Matter More Than Grades, Trophies, or "Fat Envelopes"

10 best books like Teach Your Children Well: Why Values and Coping Skills Matter More Than Grades, Trophies, or "Fat Envelopes" (Madeline Levine): The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism, It's Not All About Me: The Top Ten Techniques for Building Quick Rapport with Anyone, Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences, Broken Music, How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success, The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money, The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups, Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed, The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids

The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
AuthorOlivia Fox Cabane
ISBN1591844568
What if charisma could be taught? For the first time, science and technology have taken charisma apart, figured it out and turned it into an applied science: In controlled laboratory experiments, researchers could raise or lower people's level of charisma as if they were turning a dial. What you'll...
It's Not All About Me: The Top Ten Techniques for Building Quick Rapport with Anyone
AuthorRobin Dreeke
Despite the age-old saying, individuals everywhere still have a hard time realizing that it's not all about them. Robin Dreeke uses his research and years of work in the field of interpersonal relations and behavior to help readers focus on building relationships with others in "It's Not All About...
Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
AuthorLeonard Sax
ISBN0767916255
Are boys and girls really that different? Twenty years ago, doctors and researchers didn’t think so. Back then, most experts believed that differences in how girls and boys behave are mainly due to differences in how they were treated by their parents, teachers, and friends.

It's hard to...
Broken Music
AuthorSting
ISBN0385338651
Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhyming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book. But upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty, I found myself drawn, for the first time, to write long passages that were as...
How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
AuthorJulie Lythcott-Haims
ISBN1627791779
A provocative manifesto that exposes the harms of helicopter parenting and sets forth an alternate philosophy for raising preteens and teens to self-sufficient young adulthood

In How to Raise an Adult, Julie Lythcott-Haims draws on research, on conversations with admissions officers,...
The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money
AuthorRon Lieber
In the spirit of Wendy Mogel’s The Blessing of a Skinned Knee and Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman’s Nurture Shock, New York Times “Your Money” columnist Ron Lieber delivers a taboo-shattering manifesto that explains how talking openly to children about money can help parents raise modest,...
The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups
AuthorLeonard Sax
ISBN0465048978
In this New York Times bestseller, one of America's premier child psychologists offers a must-read account of the dismal state of parenting today, and a vision for how we can better prepare our children for the challenges of the adult world
In The Collapse of Parenting, internationally acclaimed...
Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives
AuthorRachel Simmons
ISBN0062438409
"Is it wrong that I wanted to underline every single word in this book? Simmons brilliantly crystallizes contemporary girls’ dilemma: the way old expectations and new imperatives collide; how a narrow, virtually unattainable vision of ‘success’ comes at the expense of self-worth and well-being....
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
AuthorJessica Lahey
ISBN0062299239
In the tradition of Paul Tough’s How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel’s The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, this groundbreaking manifesto focuses on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience the disappointment and frustration that occur from life’s...
The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids
AuthorJessica Joelle Alexander
What makes Denmark the happiest country in the world--and what are the secrets of Danish parents for raising happy, confident, succesful kids, year after year? This upbeat and practical guide brings together the insights of a licensed psychotherapist and a mom -- a Dane and an American married to a...
Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents
AuthorChristine Carter
ISBN0345515617
What do we wish most for our children? Next to being healthy, we want them to be happy, of course! Fortunately, a wide array of scientific studies show that happiness is a learned behavior, a muscle we can help our children build and maintain.

Drawing on what psychology, sociology, and neuroscience...
Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing
AuthorPo Bronson
ISBN1455515159
New York Times Bestseller

Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman's work changes the national dialogue. Beyond their bestselling books, you know them from commentary and features in the New York Times, CNN, NPR, Time, Newsweek, Wired, New York, and more. E-mail, Facebook, and Twitter accounts...
The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing . . . and Love
AuthorJaimal Yogis
ISBN1609611756
An epic adventure full of incredible characters, death-defying athletic achievement, and bleeding edge science, THE FEAR PROJECT began with one question: how can we overcome our fears to reach our full potential?

Who among us has not been paralyzed by fear? In The Fear Project, award-winning...
The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan: A Blueprint for Renewing Your Child's Confidence and Love of Learning
AuthorBen Foss
ISBN0345541235
Finally, a groundbreaking book that reveals what your dyslexic child is experiencing—and what you can do so that he or she will thrive

More than thirty million people in the United States are dyslexic—a brain-based genetic trait, often labeled as a “learning disability” or “learning...
The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance
AuthorTony Schwartz
ISBN1439127662
"The Way We're Working Isn't Working "is one of those rare books with the power to profoundly transform the way we work and live.

Demand is exceeding our capacity. The ethic of "more, bigger, faster" exacts a series of silent but pernicious costs at work, undermining our energy, focus, creativity,...
The Blessing of a B Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers
AuthorWendy Mogel
ISBN1416542035
In the follow-up to her bestselling book, The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, Dr. Wendy Mogel shows parents how to navigate the teenage years.

When a child becomes a teenager, her sense of entitlement and independence grows, the pressure to compete skyrockets, and communication becomes fraught...
How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results
AuthorEsther Wojcicki
ISBN1328974863
The Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a Super Family shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children using Trust, Respect, Independence, Curiosity, and Kindness: TRICK.

Esther Wojcicki—“Woj” to her many friends...
Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become
AuthorBarbara L. Fredrickson
ISBN1594630992
We all know love matters, but in this groundbreaking book positive emotions expert Barbara Fredrickson shows us how much. Even more than happiness and optimism, love holds the key to improving our mental and physical health as well as lengthening our lives.

Using research from her own lab,...
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