Product Description: In the tradition of Paul Tough's How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel's The Blessings of a Skinned Knee comes a manifesto and action plan that further explores Jessica Lahey's article in the Atlantic, "Why Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail," about why parents must learn to refrain from stepping in anytime children experience disappointments and frustrations so they can learn from life's inevitable mistakes and setbacks and grow up to be successful, resilient, and self-reliant adults...read more

Product Description: A family therapist offers a surprising new look at the rise of ADHD in America, arguing for a better paradigm for diagnosing and treating our children.   Since 1987, the number of American children diagnosed with ADHD has jumped from 3 to 11 percent...read more

This practical guide focuses on identifying typical developmental characteristics and needs of children. It explains how dangerous, disrespectful and disruptive behaviors inevitably erupt, as mismatches occur between the child and its environment. The book can be studied analytically or absorbed intuitively, depending on the needs, experiences and abilities of different readers.

Product Description: Adult Supervision Required considers the contradictory ways in which contemporary American culture has imagined individual autonomy for parents and children. In many ways, today’s parents and children have more freedom than ever before...read more

Product Description: Youth financial education is an urgent issue, and author Sabrina Lamb believes that African American parents first must reeducate themselves about finances to make sure the next generation does not fall into the spending trap that can be a family legacy...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Researchers at Minneapolis-based Search Institute have identified 40 Developmental Assets that all kids need in their lives—good things like family support, a caring neighborhood, and resistance skills. Communities across the nation have embraced the book’s quick-read, commonsense suggestions for helping kids lead healthy, productive, positive lives and stay out of trouble...read more

Product Description: Dr. Lawson Bush, a leading expert on the relationship between Black mothers and their sons and the author of the widely used ""African Educator's Declara-tion,"" assembled a team of advocates for young Black men to create this guide to help mothers understand and navigate the unique challenges of raising African American boys in a culture that sets deliberate traps for failure...read more

Product Description: When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent." Yet, the French children Druckerman knows sleep through the night at two or three months old. And while her American friends spend their visits resolving spats between their kids, her French friends sip coffee while the kids play...read more

[*Read by the author - Jessica Lahey] In the tradition of Paul Tough's How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel's The Blessings of a Skinned Knee comes a manifesto and action plan that further explores Jessica Lahey's article in the Atlantic, ''Why Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail,'' about why parents must learn to refrain from stepping in anytime children experience disappointments and frustrations so they can learn from life's inevitable mistakes and setbacks and grow up to be successful, resilient, and self-reliant adults. Although teachers and coaches have long been aware of the detrimental effects overprotective and over-involved parents have on children, the stories teachers exchange these days reveal a whole new level of overprotectiveness: parents who rush to school at the whim of a phone call from their child to deliver items such as forgotten lunches, forgotten assignments, forgotten uniforms, and who demand better grades on the final semester reports. As teacher and writer Jessica Lahey explains, even though these parents see themselves as being highly responsive to the needs and issues of their children, they aren't giving them the chance to experience failure and learn to solve their own problems. Indeed, this level of overparenting has the potential to ruin a child's confidence and undermine their education. As Lahey points out, teachers don't just teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. They teach responsibility, organization, manners, restraint, and foresight. These skills may not get assessed on standardized testing, but as children plot their journey into adulthood, they are by far the most important life skills they learn in the classroom. Children make mistakes and the educational benefit of suffering consequences is a gift. The Gift of Failure is a manifesto, an outlet, and a resource for the hundreds of thousands of parents, educators, and psychologists who work to help children succeed. Providing a path toward solutions, Lahey lays out a blueprint with targeted advice for handling homework, report cards, social dynamics, and sports -- but more importantly, she sets forth a plan for what doesn't come naturally to most of us: stepping back and embracing our children's failures. Lahey argues that year after year her ''best'' students -- the ones who are happiest and successful in their lives -- are the students who were held responsible for missteps and challenged to be the best people they could be in the face of their failures. Students need the room to roll with the punches, find their way through the gauntlet of adolescence, and stand firm in the face of the challenges -- challenges that have the power to transform today's children into resourceful, competent, and confident adults.

Product Description: Boys will be boys . . . It's time we stopped trying to "fix" them.Boys today are being bombarded with a slew of diagnoses—ADHD, Asperger's, bipolar disorder—at an alarming rate and at younger ages. The Way of Boys urges parents, educators, pediatricians, psychologists, and other developmental experts to reevaluate and significantly change how we deal with our youngest boys...read more

Product Description: Childhood in America has changed, and not for the better. From day care for babies, to the exhausting array of activities for children, to the storm of lurid and violent shows now deemed appropriate for the young, to the expectation that teenagers build resumes, childhood has been thoroughly redefined...read more

Product Description: "MegaSkills is a remarkable achievement . . . what it means is that parents across the country are willing to stand' shoulder to shoulder with teachers in ensuring that our children have the best possible education." - Don Cameron, former Executive Director, National Education Association The classic guide to childhood achievement, taught in more than 4,000 schools...read more

Product Description: This easy to read book is full of down to earth advice and illustrated with black and white pictures of fathers and children.

Product Description: For freshman/sophomore-level courses in music appreciation. Masterworks, Portfolio Edition is a price-friendly alternative to traditional music appreciation texts. Consisting of a textbook and a free music compact disk included with every text, Masterworks, Portfolio Edition is designed to introduce students to the most important music of the Western tradition, classical and popular and provide the student with the greatest textbook value at the lowest price available...read more

Product Description: A comprehensive guide, this resource offers solutions for successfully parenting children with ADHD, ADD, and hyperactivity. Written by professionals who are also parents, the well-researched reference features with real-life experiences and suggestions to help families. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Paperback.