Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Good Books for Parents and Teachers

Ashton-Warner, Sylvia, Teacher.

Biddulph, Steve, Raising Girls: How to Help Your Daughter Grow Up Happy, Healthy, and Strong.

Bowdoin, Ruth, The Magical Years. An excellent book on how to teach your child at home before she starts school.

Bronson, Po, and Ashley Merryman, Nurture Shock: New Thinking about Children. Reviews current research on child development.

Callahan, David, The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead.

Deak, Ph.D., JoAnn, with Teresa Barker, Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters.

Feingold, M.D., Ben F., Why Your Child is Hyperactive. Discusses diet and behavior.

Gadeberg, Jeanette, Raising Strong Daughters.

Gaskin, Ina May, Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth.

Hendrix, Ph.D., Harville, and Helen Hunt, M.A., M.L.A., Giving the Love That Heals: A Guide for Parents.

Holt, John, How Children Learn.

Homayoun, Ana. The Myth of the Perfect Girl: Helping Our Daughters Find Authentic Success and Happiness in School and Life.

Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer, Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection.

llich, Ivan, Deschooling Society.

Juul, Jesper, Your Competent Child: Toward New Basic Values for the Family.

Kozol, Jonathan, Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools.

Liedloff, Jean, The Continuum Concept. See continuum-concept.org.

Lythcott-Haims, Julie. How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success.

Marone, Nicky, How to Father a Successful Daughter.

Miller, Alice, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child, translated by Hildegarde and Hunter Hannum.

Mitford, Jessica, The American Way of Birth.

Neufeld, Ph.D., Gordon, and Gabor Maté, M.D., Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers.

Orenstein, Peggy, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture.

Chilton Pearce, Joseph, Magical Child: Rediscovering Nature's Plan for Our Children.

Pipher, Ph.D., Mary, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls.

Spalding, Romalda Bishop, and Walter T. Spalding, The Writing Road to Reading.

Washburn Shinn, Milicent, The Biography of a Baby. Describes development during the first year.

Wolf, Naomi, Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood. Compares risks and benefits of delivery at high-tech hospital, birth center, and home. Includes a visionary Mother's Manifesto.

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