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Good Inside (2022) offers hope to parents who feel helpless when it comes to managing conflict in their homes. More than parenting, it’s about loving yourself and extending that love to your children. Dr. Becky rejects traditional reward and punishment strategies, instead encouraging parents to seek understanding with their children while still maintaining healthy boundaries.

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Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist, mother of three, and founder of Good Inside, a membership platform that gives parents the education and skills they need to heal their family and move forward empowered and full of love for both themselves and their children. Along with the book Good Inside, Dr. Becky offers workshops, runs a podcast, and uses her thriving social media accounts to make her parenting techniques accessible to as many people as possible.

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Voice Lessons for Parents (2018) teaches parents not just what to say to children – but how to say it. When you’re communicating with children, your tone, volume, and choice of words are just as important as the message you’re trying to get across. Parenting expert Wendy Mogel shows how to get the most out of communication with your child, whether you’re dealing with a tone-deaf toddler or a defiant teenager.

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Wendy Mogel, PhD, is a social-clinical psychologist, renowned public speaker, and best-selling author. As a scientific advisor for Parents magazine, her goal is to promote self-reliance, resilience, and accountability in children and parents. Her other books include The Blessing of a Skinned Knee and The Blessing of a B Minus.

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The Addiction Inoculation (2021) is a parents’ guide to raising kids who have the knowledge, support, and self-confidence necessary to steer clear of the twin dangers of alcohol and drug use. From peer pressure to self-efficacy, it examines the risks kids need to avoid, and the defenses they need to acquire, in order to live happy, healthy, and substance-free lives.

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Jessica Lahey is a writer, teacher, and addiction recovery coach who has been published in the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and the New York Times. She is the author of the best-selling book The Gift of Failure, and was a 2019 Pushcart Prize nominee.

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Thrivers (2021) is a study of what it means to be a child in today’s fast-paced, ultra-competitive, and digital world. Kids are achieving more and more, but they’ve never felt so lonely and stressed. In our rush to prepare them for an uncertain future, we’ve taught them to strive for accolades but forgotten that there’s more to success – and happiness – than test scores and grades. What’s missing is an emphasis on helping them thrive.

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Michele Borba is an educational psychologist and best-selling author with over 40 years of experience helping parents and their children. She’s also written UnSelfie, a study of empathy in an age of egocentric social media, and is a regular contributor to TV shows including Today, Dateline, The View, Dr. Phil, NBC Nightly News, Fox & Friends, Dr. Oz, and The Early Show.

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Unlocking Parental Intelligence (2015) explores childrens’ complicated behavior with a fresh mental toolbox to decipher why kids act the way they do. It outlines a five-step process with relatable case studies to help parents connect more deeply with their children, as well as anticipate their needs and actions.

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Laurie Hollman, PhD is a psychoanalyst who specializes in infant-parent, child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapy. She’s written best-selling books such as The Busy Parent’s Guide to Managing Exhaustion in Children and Teens and The Busy Parent’s Guide to Managing Technology in Children and Teens.

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Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen (2020) tackles the thorny subject of communicating with tweens – those adolescents between the ages of ten and fourteen who are beginning to pull away from their parents and close down lines of communication. This is the age at which “big” topics like sexuality, money, and life choices are more important than ever. But it’s also the age at which having a conversation with your child is harder than ever before. So what can parents do? Well, it’s time to learn a new way of talking with, and not at, your tween.

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Michelle Icard is a member of NBC New Learn and the Today show’s parenting team. She is the author of Middle School Makeover and a regular contributor to publications including the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Time magazine, and the Chicago Tribune. Her two-tier leadership curriculum for middle schoolers, consisting of Athena's Path and Hero's Pursuit, have been implemented at schools across the United States.

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The Self-Driven Child (2018) shows us how our instinct to control our children’s lives can result in stressed-out, uncooperative, and poorly motivated kids. Instead, the book argues, we should try to help our children come to informed decisions themselves – and trust them to make the big calls.

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William Stixrud is a clinical neuropsychologist and founder of The Stixrud Group, a group of clinical psychologists. He is a member of the teaching faculty at Children’s National Medical Center and an assistant professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine.

Ned Johnson is the president and founder of PrepMatters, a tutoring and educational advising company in Washington, DC. He has been featured on NPR, NewsHour, U.S. News & World Report, as well as in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Time.

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How to Live (2018) takes a thoughtful look at the teachings of St. Benedict and how the rules he applied to sixth-century monastic living can help us lead better lives today. From the benefits of cultivating silence to insights into how to be a better leader, find out how The Rule of St. Benedict can help you better navigate the pitfalls of modern life.

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Judith Valente is an award-winning journalist, essayist, and poet who’s been a staff writer for publications including the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. She has also worked in television and radio and has undertaken speaking engagements and led retreats on the power of poetry and leading a more meaningful work life. Her other books include The Art of Pausing: Meditations for the Overworked and Overwhelmed.

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Robert Kolker is a best-selling author and investigative journalist whose work has appeared in publications such as New York Magazine and Bloomberg Businessweek. His highly acclaimed book, Lost Girls (2013), about a series of unsolved killings on Long Island, was adapted into a film of the same name released in 2020.

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The Power of Showing Up (2020) is a guide to doing one of the most essential things when it comes to raising well-adjusted children – being fully present for them. From providing a safe haven to helping cope with life’s hurdles, parents and caregivers can learn how to build strong bonds with their children that will encourage them to feel confident and secure as they step out into the world.

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Tina Payne Bryson is a psychotherapist and the founder of The Center for Connection – as well as the Play Strong Institute, which offers play therapy for families and training for students and professionals. She’s frequently invited to speak to educators, parents, and fellow professionals in her field. Together, Siegel and Bryson have co-authored three parenting books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline.

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Bless This Mess (2019) is a parents’ guide to raising Christian children in a bewildering age. Combining spiritual wisdom with the latest thought in child psychology, the authors aim to show that there’s no reason to think of the terms “progressive” and “Christian” as contradictory when it comes to child-rearing.

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Hillary Frank is a media professional whose career took off when she was working for the podcast This American Life. She followed up by creating her own award-winning parenting and family podcast, The Longest Shortest Time. Hillary Frank also writes novels for teenagers and young adults, including Better Than Running at Night (2002) and I Can’t Tell You (2004).

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Reader, Come Home (2018) is a meditation on the future of reading in the age of digital revolution and diminishing attention spans. Drawing on the latest neuroscientific research, Maryanne Wolf unpacks the cultural and cognitive dimensions of a technological transformation that’s reshaped our relationship with the written word. At the heart of her investigation is a question whose answer will determine how our societies will look in the future: What will reading mean to our children, a generation which has never known a world without Google, smartphones and e-books?

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Maryanne Wolf is the John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University and the co-founder of Curious Learning: A Global Literacy Project. She is the author of more than 160 scientific publications as well as two books on reading, Proust and the Squid and Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century. She is the director of UCLA’s Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners and Social Justice.

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Brainstorm (2014) is devoted to the many mysteries and secrets of the teenage brain. These blinks debunk lazy stereotypes about adolescents and paint a more positive picture. Our teenage years aren’t just a period of hormonal and cognitive disarray; they’re also a crucial phase in the brain’s development.

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Daniel J. Siegel studied at Harvard University and conducted research at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently a professor of medicine at UCLA and runs his own psychotherapy practice. His numerous books on the brain and education include Mindsight (2008) and Parenting From the Inside Out (2003).

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