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Creative Schools Summary
Creative Schools
The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
by Ken Robinson 2015 320 pages
4.10
4k+ ratings
Teaching
Parenting
Psychology
Blame My Brain Summary
Blame My Brain
by Nicola Morgan 2005 192 pages
3.89
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Parenting
Science
The Emotionally Absent Mother Summary
The Emotionally Absent Mother
A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed
by Jasmin Lee Cori 2010 240 pages
4.18
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
Reclaiming Conversation Summary
Reclaiming Conversation
The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
by Sherry Turkle 2015 448 pages
3.81
4k+ ratings
Psychology
Technology
Communication
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog Summary
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
by Bruce D. Perry 2007 288 pages
4.59
37k+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Science
Happier at Home Summary
Happier at Home
Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
by Gretchen Rubin 2012 10 pages
3.54
19k+ ratings
Self Help
Memoir
Personal Development
The Gift of Failure Summary
The Gift of Failure
How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
by Jessica Lahey 2014 243 pages
4.14
7k+ ratings
Parenting
Education
Psychology
The Collapse of Parenting Summary
The Collapse of Parenting
How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups
by Leonard Sax 2015 304 pages
4.28
4k+ ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Self Help
Thirty Million Words Summary
Thirty Million Words
Building a Child's Brain
by Dana Suskind 2015 320 pages
4.15
3k+ ratings
Parenting
Education
Psychology
Einstein Never Used Flash Cards Summary
Einstein Never Used Flash Cards
How Our Children Really Learn — and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less
by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek 2003 320 pages
3.93
2k+ ratings
Parenting
Education
Psychology
Girls & Sex Summary
Girls & Sex
Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
by Peggy Orenstein 2016 303 pages
4.07
11k+ ratings
Feminism
Parenting
Sexuality
Strong Mothers, Strong Sons Summary
Strong Mothers, Strong Sons
Lessons Mothers Need to Raise Extraordinary Men
by Meg Meeker 2014 368 pages
3.92
2k+ ratings
Parenting
Self Help
Family
Teaching Kids to Think Summary
Teaching Kids to Think
Raising Confident, Independent, and Thoughtful Children in an Age of Instant Gratification
by Darlene Sweetland 2015 304 pages
3.76
100+ ratings
Parenting
Education
Childrens
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents Summary
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
by Lindsay C. Gibson 2015 201 pages
4.38
70k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
Quiet Power Summary
Quiet Power
The Secret Strengths of Introverts
by Susan Cain 2012 273 pages
3.92
6k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Parenting
Raising Can-Do Kids Summary
Raising Can-Do Kids
Giving Children the Tools to Thrive in a Fast-Changing World
by Richard Rende 2015 271 pages
4.00
10+ ratings
Parenting
Executive Functions Summary
Executive Functions
What They Are, How They Work, and Why They Evolved
by Russell A. Barkley 2012 244 pages
4.03
100+ ratings
Adhd
Psychology
Self Help
Raising Human Beings Summary
Raising Human Beings
Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child
by Ross W. Greene 2016 304 pages
4.20
2k+ ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Self Help
50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School Summary
50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School
Real-world Antidotes to Feel-good Education
by Charles J. Sykes 2007 192 pages
3.70
100+ ratings
Education
Parenting
Self Help
Self-Reg Summary
Self-Reg
How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life
by Stuart Shanker 2016 320 pages
4.18
1k+ ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Self Help
Mindset Summary
Mindset
The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck 2006 276 pages
4.10
100k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Business
The Drama of the Gifted Child Summary
The Drama of the Gifted Child
The Search for the True Self
by Alice Miller 1979 136 pages
4.05
28k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Parenting
The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting Summary
The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting
How the Science of Strategic Thinking Can Help You Deal with the Toughest Negotiators You Know — Your Kids
by Paul Raeburn 2016 222 pages
3.49
100+ ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Economics
The Cyber Effect Summary
The Cyber Effect
A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behavior Changes Online
by Mary Aiken 2016 14 pages
3.73
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Technology
Science
Untangled Summary
Untangled
Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood
by Lisa Damour 2016 352 pages
4.52
16k+ ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Self Help
Families and How To Survive Them Summary
Families and How To Survive Them
by Robin Skynner 1983 304 pages
3.94
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Parenting
Free to Learn Summary
Free to Learn
Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
by Peter O. Gray 2013 288 pages
4.27
3k+ ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Childrens
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Summary
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2017 63 pages
4.51
85k+ ratings
Feminism
Essays
Womens
The Tech-Wise Family Summary
The Tech-Wise Family
Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place
by Andy Crouch 2017 224 pages
4.25
7k+ ratings
Parenting
Christian
Technology
Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew Summary
Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
by Ellen Notbohm 2005 111 pages
4.26
3k+ ratings
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Parenting
Psychology
Unfinished Business Summary
Unfinished Business
Women, Men, Work, Family
by Anne-Marie Slaughter 2015 352 pages
3.92
3k+ ratings
Feminism
Business
Parenting
The Importance of Being Little Summary
The Importance of Being Little
What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups
by Erika Christakis 2016 400 pages
3.71
2k+ ratings
Parenting
Education
Childrens
No Bad Kids Summary
No Bad Kids
Toddler Discipline Without Shame
by Janet Lansbury 2014 162 pages
4.27
10k+ ratings
Parenting
Childrens
Psychology
Expecting Adam Summary
Expecting Adam
A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic
by Martha N. Beck 1999 336 pages
3.85
10k+ ratings
Memoir
Parenting
Biography
Parenting With Love and Logic Summary
Parenting With Love and Logic
by Foster W. Cline 1990 272 pages
4.05
13k+ ratings
Parenting
Self Help
Family
Engaging Autism Summary
Engaging Autism
Helping Children Relate, Communicate and Think with the DIR Floortime Approach
by Stanley I. Greenspan 2006 448 pages
4.16
500+ ratings
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Parenting
Psychology
Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight Summary
Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight
What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World
by Sharon Heller 2002 370 pages
3.90
500+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Health
The Everything Parent's Guide to Emotional Intelligence in Children Summary
The Everything Parent's Guide to Emotional Intelligence in Children
How to Raise Children Who Are Caring, Resilient, and Emotionally Strong
by Korrel W. Kanoy 2013 304 pages
3.47
10+ ratings
Parenting
The Business of Baby Summary
The Business of Baby
What Doctors Don't Tell You, What Corporations Try to Sell You, and How to Put Your Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Before Their Bottom Line
by Jennifer Margulis 2013
3.65
100+ ratings
Parenting
Health
Childrens
The Parent's Tao Te Ching Summary
The Parent's Tao Te Ching
Ancient Advice for Modern Parents
by William Martin 1999 160 pages
4.53
1k+ ratings
Parenting
Philosophy
Poetry
The End of Education Summary
The End of Education
Redefining the Value of School
by Neil Postman 1995 209 pages
3.96
1k+ ratings
Education
Philosophy
Teaching
Age of Opportunity Summary
Age of Opportunity
Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence
by Laurence Steinberg 2014 272 pages
4.03
500+ ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Education
Good Night Sleep Tight Summary
Good Night Sleep Tight
The Sleep Lady's Gentle Guide to Helping Your Child Go to Sleep, Stay Asleep, and Wake Up Happy
by Kim West 2005 356 pages
3.84
1k+ ratings
Parenting
Reference
Self Help
Brain-Based Parenting Summary
Brain-Based Parenting
The Neuroscience of Caregiving for Healthy Attachment
by Daniel A. Hughes 2012 264 pages
4.28
100+ ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Adoption
Running on Empty Summary
Running on Empty
Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
by Jonice Webb 2012 227 pages
4.19
9k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Mental Health
Raising Boys Summary
Raising Boys
Why Boys Are Different - And How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-Balanced Men
by Steve Biddulph 1997 216 pages
3.73
4k+ ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Self Help
The Birth Of A Mother Summary
The Birth Of A Mother
by Daniel N. Stern 1998 257 pages
3.86
100+ ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Psychoanalysis
What to Expect the First Year Summary
What to Expect the First Year
by Heidi Murkoff 1989 806 pages
3.93
19k+ ratings
Parenting
Reference
Self Help
Homeschooling for Excellence Summary
Homeschooling for Excellence
by David Colfax 1988 176 pages
3.90
100+ ratings
Education
Parenting
Inspirational
Your Defiant Teen Summary
Your Defiant Teen
10 Steps to Resolve Conflict and Rebuild Your Relationship
by Russell A. Barkley 2008 326 pages
3.94
100+ ratings
Parenting
Adhd
Psychology
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