Lynne Twist

Teresa Barker

Examines the link between our attitudes toward money--earning it, spending it, and giving it away--and our feelings of fulfillment, sufficiency, and purpose in our lives. 50,000 first printing.

Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life

The Soul of Money

Michael Thompson

Daniel James Kindlon

Offers advice and guidance to parents and educators on how to cope with boys at risk and introduces a program designed to give boys an essential emotional education.

Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys

Raising Cain

Caroline Maguire

The Play Better Plan to Help Children of All Ages Make Friends and Thrive

Why Will No One Play with Me?

"A life-changing read. With warmth, honesty, and storytelling, Lynne turns everything we think we know about money upside down…It's the book we all need right now." —Brené Brown, Ph.D., author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rising Strong This liberating book shows us that examining our attitudes toward money—earning it, spending it, and giving it away—offers surprising insight into our lives. Through personal stories and practical advice, Lynne Twist asks us to discover our relationship with money, understand how we use it, and by assessing our core human values, align our relationship with it to our desired goals. In doing so, we can transform our lives. The Soul of Money now includes a foreword from Jack Canfield and a new introduction by Lynne Twist, in which she explores the effects of the Great Recession and environmental concerns about our monetary needs and aims.

Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources

Offers advice and guidance to parents and educators on how to cope with boys at risk and introduce a program designed to give boys an essential emotional education

An instructional book helps parents and educators distinguish between needless worry and reasonable concern over their children's education and development to more effectively aid young ones in becoming successful learners in school and in life. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Freeing Our Kids from Performance Overdrive and Helping Them Find Success in School and Life

The Pressured Child

The authors of Raising Cain present a definitive handbook for parents on raising boys, from birth to age eighteen, furnishing specific, practical information and advice on how to deal with the day-to-day challenges of each stage of development and offering helpful sidebars, tips, and case studies that cover boys' emotional, psychological, social, and academic life. 50,000 first printing.

Understanding Your Son's Development from Birth to Age 18

It's a Boy!

An instructional book helps parents and educators distinguish between needless worry and reasonable concern over their children's education and development to more effectively aid young ones in becoming successful learners in school and in life.

Helping Your Child Find Success in School and Life

From renowned parent expert Caroline Maguire, WHY WILL NO ONE PLAY WITH ME' is a groundbreaking program that has helped thousands of children struggling with social skills to make friends, find acceptance, and have a happy childhood. Every parent wants their child to be okay-to have friends, to be successful, to feel comfortable in his or her own skin. But many children lack important social and executive functioning skills that allow them to navigate through the world with ease. In-demand parenting expert and former Hallowell Center coach Caroline Maguire has worked with thousands of families dealing with chronic social dilemmas, ranging from shyness to aggression to ADHD, and more. In this groundbreaking book, she shares her decade-in-the-making protocol-The Play Better Plan-to help parents coach children to connect with others and make friends. Children of all ages-truly, from Kindergarten to college age-will gain the confidence to make friends and get along with others, using tools such as:*Social Sleuthing, to learn to pay attention to social cues from other*Post-Play Date Huddles that help kids figure out what to look for in a friendship*Reflective Listening that can improve your child's relationship with their peers With compassion and ease,, this program gives parents a tangible, easy to follow guide for helping kids develop the executive function and social skills they need to thrive.

Michael Thompson, PhD

My eight-year-old son is the only boy in his class who doesn't have a Gameboy. I don't want him to be ostracized for not having one, but I worry that it's addictive. What do you think? Our two sons are eleven and fourteen, and they are fiercely competitive. The tension around our house is awful. How can we help them get along better? We've worked very hard to keep our ten-year-old son in touch with his feelings. Sometimes it seems as if we've put him at a disadvantage, surrounded by tougher boys who can be pretty cruel with teasing. How can we help him protect himself when other boys start to tease? With his bestselling book Raising Cain, Michael Thompson, Ph.D., at last broke the silence surrounding the emotional life of boys and spearheaded an important national debate. His warmth and humor quickly made him a popular and respected international speaker and consultant. Now he directs his authority, insight, and eloquence to answering your questions about raising a son. With candid questions and thoughtful, detailed responses, Speaking of Boys covers hot-button topics such as peer pressure, ADHD/ADD, and body image as well as traditional issues such as friendship, divorce, and college and career development. This perceptive, informative, and passionate book will leave you not only with useful, practical advice but also with the comforting knowledge that other parents share the same concerns you do when it comes to raising our boys into well-adjusted, responsible men.

Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About Raising Sons

Speaking of Boys

From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Raising Cain, It’s a Boy! is the first major parenting book to chart every stage of a boy’s life. This upbeat, authoritative, and reassuring guide–written by psychologist Michael Thompson, Ph.D., a leading international expert on boys’ development, and journalist Teresa H. Barker–shows how a boy’s inner life progresses through infancy, childhood, and adolescence. What do boys actually need? How exactly does a healthy boy look and act? It’s a Boy! has the answers, providing expert advice on the developmental, psychological, social, and academic life of boys from infancy through the teen years. Exploring the many ways in which boys strive for masculinity and attempt to define themselves, Dr. Thompson identifies the key developmental transitions that mark a boy’s psychological growth and emotional health, and the challenges both boys and parents face at each age. • Expecting a Boy: how our deeply held hopes, fears, and family histories shape our expectations of boys and our parenting techniques • Baby Boys (birth to 18 months): falling in love with your son, healthy attachment, trust, and temperament • Toddler Years (18 months to 3 years): boys on the go, bold steps, blankies, budding language, and rambunctious physicality • Powerful Little Boys (ages 3 and 4): superhero ambitions, penis play and potty talk, learning to manage the force of his anger, and celebrating the power of the boy group • Starting School (ages 5 through 7): developmental cues for school readiness, transitional challenges, girl cooties and boys-only play, tough talk, tender hearts, and first friends • Boys on a Mission (ages 8 through 10): striving for mastery in sports, screen games, and boy society, organizing the boy brain for school success, and glaring academic gender gaps • The Preteen (ages 11 through 13): puberty, posturing and popularity, the culture of cruelty, hidden sensitivity, and stoic silence in the middle school years • Early High School (ages 14 and 15): the secret life of boys, powerful peer groups, sexuality, school strategies, the shift away from Mom (she knows too much), and yearning for Dad’s respect and attention • On the Brink of Manhood (ages 16 through 18): the quest for independence, sex, love, driving, drinking, and other choices and challenges of life Practical, insightful, wonderfully engaging, and filled with instructive true stories any parent of a son will recognize, It’s a Boy! is the definitive guide to raising boys in today’s world, revealing with humor, compassion, and joy all the infinite varieties of boys and the deep and profound ways in which we love them.

Your Son's Development from Birth to Age 18

Shireen Dodson

An account of ten mothers and their preteen daughters describes how their relationships were enhanced through a monthly reading club and offers step-by-step guidelines, reading lists, enrichment activities, and other advice on how to start a book club. Reprint.

How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh, and Learn Through Their Love of Reading

The Mother-daughter Book Club

Observi cum copilul tău este adesea exclus din grupul de joacă? Îl vezi cum rămâne pe dinafară atunci când se aleg echipele sau afli că-și petrece pauzele singur? Toate acestea se pot schimba, cu ajutorul tău și al planului Joacă-te mai bine. Deschizând această carte și folosind-o împreună cu copilul tău, îl vei învăța cum să-și conștientizeze emoțiile, cum să citească indiciile sociale, cum să inițieze și să continue o conversație, cum să se comporte la joacă, cum să coopereze și să colaboreze cu ceilalți. Veți găsi împreună în aceste pagini o strategie clară, ușor de aplicat, împărțită în pași mici, cuantificabili, asupra cărora puteți reveni ori de câte ori este nevoie. Prin numeroasele sale exemple și exerciții, această carte îi va ajuta pe copii, dar și pe cei mai mari, să-și facă prieteni și să se bucure de o viață socială activă.

Teresa Barker

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