School-Age Children

Every child has a unique way of feeling loved. When you discover your child's love language - and how to speak it - you can build a solid foundation for your child to trust you and flourish....

With illuminating examples and simple yet powerful advice, The Danish Way of Parenting will help parents from all walks of life raise the happiest, most well-adjusted kids in the world....

In The Family Firm, Brown professor of economics and mom of two Emily Oster offers a classic business school framework for data-driven parents to think more deliberately about the key issues of the elementary years: school, health, extracurricular activities, and more....

From internationally renowned family consultant Kim John Payne comes an eloquent guide that seeks to help parents reclaim for their children the space and freedom that all kids need for their individuality to flourish....

Why America's sons are underachieving, and what we can do about it. Something is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere 20 years ago....

One basic need all children have, educator Alfie Kohn argues, is to be loved unconditionally, to know that they will be accepted even if they screw up or fall short....

When boys enter puberty, they tend to get quiet - or at least quieter than before - and parents often misread their signals. Here’s how to navigate their retreat and steer them through this confusing passage....

In this Queen Bees and Wannabes for the elementary and middle school set, child and adolescent psychotherapist Katie Hurley shows parents of young girls how to nip mean girl behavior in the bud....

Gentle Discipline helps parents of toddlers as well as school-age kids embrace a new, more enlightened way to help kids listen, learn, and grow....

Best-selling author Michele Borba offers a nine-step program to help parents cultivate empathy in children, from birth to young adulthood ....

Whenever Amy McCready mentions the "entitlement epidemic" to a group of parents, she is inevitably met with eye rolls, nodding heads, and loaded comments about affected children....

A Harvard-trained psychiatrist and mom of three gives parents and educators the tech habits children need to achieve their full potential - and a six-step plan to put them into action....

The Happy Sleeper shows parents how to avoid cumbersome sleep habits, putting their babies and kids on track to a full night's sleep. Heather Turgeon and Julie Wright teach parents that babies have an innate capacity to self-soothe, as well as the brain machinery to sleep well....

Low self-esteem is not genetic. It is the environment that surrounds us that determines who will grow up with great confidence and who will have low self-esteem for a lifetime....

This book helps parents to inspire their boys by captivating their imagination and honoring their love for adventure....

If you're like most parents, you're probably feeling pretty nervous about potty training. This supportive guide provides step-by-step advice for a compassionate and emotionally aware process - one that focuses on positive connection rather than relying on gimmicks, pressure, or rewards....

Communicating with your kids should be easy, but miscommunication is easier. The longer you delay talking to your kids properly, the worst it will get as time goes by....

Parenting expert and acclaimed author Kim John Payne, M.Ed., flips the script on children’s challenging or defiant behavior and lays out an elegantly simple plan to support parents in establishing loving, age-sensitive boundaries that help children feel safe and settled....

Parenting can be such an overwhelming job that it's easy to lose track of where you stand on some of the more controversial subjects at the playground....

Shumaker offers broader guidance on how parents can control their own anger and move from an overscheduled life to one of more free play....

The compassionate number-one best seller in Israel that shows parents - particularly mothers - how to teach children to be strong and independent by seeing the world through their children's eyes and feel it through their children's hearts.

Parenting Without Power Struggles is an extraordinary guidebook for transforming the day-to-day lives of busy parents - and the children they love....

Gone are the days when socially conscious parents felt comfortable teaching their children to merely tolerate others. Instead, they are looking for a way to authentically embrace the fullness of their diverse communities....

Find out what makes a good book, discern between good, better, and best, and then select from over three hundred recommendations in this updated version....

Being the parent of a smart child is great - until your kid starts asking if global warming is real, if you will die, and what will happen if they don't get into college. Kids who are advanced intellectually often let their imaginations run wild and experience fears beyond their years....