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This enduring classic of educational thought offers teachers and parents deep, original insight into the nature of early learning. John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, "learning is as natural as breathing." In this delightful yet profound book, he looks at how we learn...

Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: How Young Minds Grow and Learn is an in-depth resource for parents, educators, and caregivers who want to understand how children think, learn, and develop during their most important years. From birth through the preschool years, a child’s brain experiences rapid growth, building the foundation for language, memory, problem-solving, creativity, and emotional regulation. This comprehensive guide explains each stage of cognitive development and provides practical strategies to support children at home, in school, and within their communities. ...

Reassuring to parents and educators, Einstein Never Used Flash Cards shows why - and how - to step away from the cult of achievement and toward a more nurturing home life full of imaginative play and love of learning. Here's the message that stressed-out parents are craving to hear: It's okay to play! In fact, it's more than just okay - it's better than drilling academics. After decades of research, scientists and child development experts have come to a clear conclusion: Play is the best way for children to learn.

"A lightning bolt of a book" makes the case for why self-directed learning — "unschooling" — is the best way to get kids to learn (Lenore Skenazy) In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that in order to foster children who will thrive in today’s constantly changing...

Understanding Jean Piaget: A Complete Guide to Cognitive Development, Learning Stages, and Educational Theory is your definitive introduction to one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century. Whether you're a student, educator, parent, or lifelong learner, this accessible guide breaks down Piaget's revolutionary theory of cognitive development in a way that’s clear, engaging, and deeply informative. Explore Piaget’s four stages of cognitive growth—Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operational—and gain insight into how children think, ...

You're not crazy. You’re triggered. You’re not too much. You were trained to chase love that runs. You date people who pull away. You feel like you’re begging to be chosen. You either cling, vanish, or implode. You don’t need another breakup. You need to understand why your nervous system thinks this is love. This book doesn’t just describe attachment styles. It helps you repattern them — in real time, with tools that stick. You’ll get: ✅ Real-life dialogues between attachment styles (you’ll see yourself in them) ✅ Secure behavior scripts you can copy-paste into texts ...

2022 Mom's Choice Gold Award Winner The groundbreaking book that explains Sensory Processing Difference (SPD)--and presents a drug-free approach that offers hope for parents--now revised and updated. Does your child exhibit... Over-responsivity--or under-responsivity--to touch or movement? A...

Discover a way to end constant power struggles with your defiant, oppositional, "impossible" five-to-12-year-old, with the help of leading child psychologist Russell A. Barkley. Dr. Barkley's approach is research based, practical, and doable - and leads to lasting behavior change. Vivid, realistic stories illustrate what the techniques look like in action. Thoroughly revised to include the latest resources and 15 years' worth of research advances, the second edition also reflects Dr. Barkley's ongoing experiences with parents and kids.

A child’s brain development is fundamental to who he or she will become as an adult! Understanding how a child's brain works and develops is a vital factor in implementing ideologies and practices to help improve a child's cognitive functions. This helps them grow into adults fully capable of utilizing everything the brain offers. And since a child's brain functions are the foundation of their physical capabilities, this knowledge can't be understated.

A parent’s guide to cultivating an unhurried lifestyle and education that help their children thrive In a culture that prizes productivity, efficiency, and success, it’s easy to feel as though we’re constantly falling short and to lose sight of joy. The homeschool community is not exempt...

Healing Your Wounded Inner Child is a thoughtful and insightful guide designed to help you uncover the hidden roots of pain, fear, and insecurity stemming from childhood experiences. Whether you’ve endured neglect, abuse, or inherited trauma, this audiobook shows you the steps to help you break free from destructive patterns, overcome the fear of abandonment, and finally feel emotionally secure.

From a licensed marriage and family therapist, this empathetic book is the key to achieving secure relationships with your loved ones and breaking away from painful patterns. Our individual attachment style plays a crucial role in the quality of our relationships and is often the strongest...

Respected Waldorf educator Rahima Baldwin Dancy explains the different stages of learning that children go through from birth to age six, giving you the wisdom and understanding to enrich your child's natural development in the right way at the right time. A trusted classic for over 20 years, this newly revised edition contains updated resources and additional information on discipline, early childhood programs, toilet training, using home life as curriculum, and more. From language and cognitive development to appropriate toys, Dancy speaks up for a rational approach to child-rearing.

En este audiolibro innovador y práctico, Daniel J. Siegel y Tina Payne Bryson desmitifican las crisis y los conflictos, explicando los nuevos conocimientos científicos sobre cómo está constituido el cerebro y cómo madura. Incluyendo claras explicaciones, estrategias correspondientes a las distintas edades para enfrentarse a las luchas cotidianas e ilustraciones que ayudan a explicar estos conceptos a los niños, El cerebro del niño enseña a cultivar un desarrollo emocional e intelectual sano para que los niños puedan tener una vida equilibrada, significativa, y conectada.

Discover the powerful way to transform your relationships with friends, loved ones, and even coworkers, with proven strategies that you can put to work immediately on improving the way you communicate with anyone in any environment.

Children who carry chronic behavioral challenges are often met with reactive and punitive practices that can potentially reactivate the developing stress response systems. This book deeply addresses the need for coregulatory and relational touch point practices, shifting student-focused behavior management protocols to adult regulated brain and body states which are brain aligned, preventive, and relational discipline protocols. This new lens for discipline benefits all students by reaching for sustainable behavioral changes through brain state awareness rather than compliance and obedience.

Logic, Reasoning, and the Growing Mind: Jean Piaget’s Insights Into How Children Think and Solve Problems is a comprehensive and accessible guide to one of the most influential theories in developmental psychology. This book explores the major cognitive processes that shape how children learn to reason, organize information, solve problems, and understand the world. Through clear explanations and practical insights, it presents Piaget’s central ideas in a way that is useful for parents, teachers, students of psychology, and anyone interested in how thinking develops across childhood. ...

In Love Is a Choice, best-selling doctors Robert Hemfelt, Frank Minirth, and Paul Meier walk you through their 10 proven stages to recovery from codependency that results from external circumstances. Humans are susceptible to codependency because of our sinful tendency to use defense mechanisms to fool ourselves. In codependent relationships, deceitful games are played, and important Christian principles are often taken out of context and abused.

Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Jean Piaget A Gateway to His Life, Theories, and Legacy Jean Piaget transformed our understanding of childhood. At a time when many believed children were simply “miniature adults,” Piaget revealed that they think, reason, and learn in fundamentally different ways at each stage of development. His groundbreaking theory of cognitive development changed the way we teach, parent, and study the human mind. This concise yet powerful volume distils Piaget’s life’s work into clear, engaging chapters. From his beginnings as a young biologist in Switzerland to ...

Mind in Motion: Exploring the Transformative Ideas of Lev Vygotsky and the Social Foundations of Learning Discover the revolutionary ideas of Lev Vygotsky, the brilliant psychologist whose theories forever changed how we understand learning, development, and the human mind. Mind in Motion offers an engaging and accessible exploration of Vygotsky’s most influential concepts, including the Zone of Proximal Development, scaffolding, cultural mediation, and the social origins of thought. This comprehensive guide traces Vygotsky’s life and ideas from their historical roots to their enduring ...