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Love in a Time of Homeschooling: A Mother and Daughter's Uncommon Year
Laura Brodie · back to the book
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Harriet Brown · 272 pages
"Millions of families are affected by eating disorders, which usually strike young women between the ages of fourteen and twenty. But current medical practice ties these families' hands when it comes to helping their children recover. Conventional medical wisdom dictates separating the patient from the family and insists that "it's not about the food," even as a family watches a child waste away b
Lift
Kelly Corrigan · 89 pages
The author uses the story of her four-month-old child's serious illness to show how, much like a hang glider, a person must go through turbulence before getting the lift needed for a positive life experience.
Thorn in My Pocket: Temple Grandin's Mother Tells the Family Story
Eustacia Cutler · 227 pages
The Brainy Bunch: The Harding Family's Method to College Ready by Age Twelve
Kip Harding, Mona Lisa Harding · 244 pages
Listen to the Squawking Chicken: When Mother Knows Best, What's a Daughter To Do? A Memoir
Elaine Lui · 275 pages
Shares nine parenting principles distilling the unconventional advice, warnings, and messages of love imparted by the author's eccentric Chinese mother.
Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
Debra Gwartney · 224 pages
"Live Through This"--as emotionally wrenching and ultimately redemptive as David Sheff 's "Beautiful Boy"--follows Gwartney's frantic effort to recover her beautiful, intelligent daughters from their lives on the street.
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua · 264 pages
Amy Chua's daughters, Sophia and Louisa (Lulu) were polite, interesting and helpful; they had perfect school marks and exceptional abilities. The Chinese parenting model certainly seemed to produce results. But what happens when a screaming child, who would sooner freeze outside in the cold than be forced to play the piano, confronts you? BATTLE HYMN OF THE TIGER MOTHER is a story about a mother,
The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's
Temple Grandin · 299 pages
Dr. Temple Grandin gets to the REAL issues of autism--the ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day. Temple offers helpful dos and don'ts, practical strategies, and try-it-now tips, all based on her insider perspective and a great deal of research. These are just some of the specific topics she delves into: how and why people with autism think differently, economical e
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Anna Quindlen · 182 pages
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch · 224 pages
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates · 155 pages
An Amazon Best Book of July 2015: Readers of his work in The Atlantic and elsewhere know Ta-Nehisi Coates for his thoughtful and influential writing on race in America. Written as a series of letters to his teenaged son, his new memoir, Between the World and Me, walks us through the course of his life, from the tough neighborhoods of Baltimore in his youth, to Howard University—which Coates dubs “
The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Kristine Barnett · 250 pages
The mother of an autistic child who was eventually recognized as a genius recounts her rejection of conventional advice from developmental experts and shares the strategies she utilized for tapping her son's potential.
Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
Pamela Druckerman · 284 pages
"The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children. When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent." French parenting isn't a known thing, like French fashion or French cheese. Even French parents themselves insist they aren't doing anything special. Yet, the French children Druckerman knows sleep through the night at two
The Secret of Childhood
Maria Montessori · 239 pages
Describes the child with warmth and with the exactness of the scientist.
Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope with Explosive Feelings
Christine Fonseca · 211 pages
Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
Anthony M. Esolen · 256 pages
Play dates, soccer practice, day care, political correctness, drudgery without facts, television, video games, constant supervision, endless distractions: these and other insidious trends in child rearing and education are now the hallmarks of childhood. As author Anthony Esolen demonstrates in this elegantly written, often wickedly funny book, almost everything we are doing to children now constr
Reading Magic: How Your Child Can Learn To Read Before School And Other Read Aloud Miracles
Mem Fox · 145 pages
With passion and humor, Fox speaks of when, where, and why to read aloud and demonstrates how to read aloud to best effect and get the most out of a read-aloud session. She discusses the three secrets of reading, offers guidance on defining and choosing good books, and - for this new edition - includes two new chapters on boy readers and phonics, a foreword, and a list of "Twenty Books That Childr
1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism or Asperger's
Ellen Notbohm, Veronica Zysk · 364 pages
Contains 1001 suggestions for meeting the challenges faced by children with autism spectrum disorders, covering sensory integration, communication, language, daily living, social issues, behavior, and education.
The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
Ben Sasse · 313 pages
America's youth are in crisis. Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents and coddled by well-meaning but misbegotten government programs, they are ill-equipped to survive in our highly-competitive global economy. Many of the coming-of-age rituals that have defined the American experience since the Founding -- learning the value of working with your hands, leaving home to start a family, be
Playful Learning: Develop Your Child's Sense of Joy and Wonder
Mariah Bruehl · 271 pages
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
Peggy Orenstein · 252 pages
The author explores her own conflicting feelings as a mother as she protects her offspring and probes the roots and tendrils of the girlie-girl movement and concludes that parents who think through their values early on and set reasonable limits, encourage dialogue and skepticism, and are canny about the consumer culture can combat the 24/7 "media machine" aimed at girls and hold off the focus on