Books & Recommendations

Below you’ll find an evolving list of recommended books and resources for parents and educators, as well as playthings and book recommendations for children. You can sort using the navigation above. Enjoy!

Check out this whole series by Louise Bates Ames!

The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect

Your Baby Is Speaking to You: A Visual Guide to the Amazing Behaviors of Your Newborn and Growing Baby

The Parent’s Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents

Who’s Raising the Kids? Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children

Spoiled Right: Delaying Screens and Giving Children What They Really Need

Strange Situation: A Mother’s Journey into the Science of Attachment

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

Parenting Without Power Struggles: Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids While Staying Cool, Calm, and Connected

The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child

Mothering Boys: A Guide for Moms of Sons

Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul

Beyond Behaviors

The Hurried Child

The Philosophical Baby

Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life

Mindfulness Tools (to help us recenter in challenging situations)

Your Self-Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child’s Natural Abilities — From the Very Start

Dear Parent: Caring for Infants With Respect

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

CALMS A Guide to Soothing Your Baby

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind

Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child The Heart of Parenting

Discovering the Culture of Childhood

It’s No Accident: Breakthrough Solutions To Your Child’s Wetting, Constipation, Utis, And Other Potty Problems

How to Raise an Adult

The Case For Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World

Becoming the Parent You Want to Be: A Sourcebook of Strategies for the First Five Years

Sleepless in America: Is Your Child Misbehaving…or Missing Sleep?

Taking Back Childhood: A Proven Roadmap for Raising Confident, Creative, Compassionate Kids

The Genius in Every Child

The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind

The Emotional Life of the Toddler

The Blessing of a B Minus

Theories of Attachment (An Introduction to Bowlby Ainsworth Gerber Brazelton Kennell and Klause)

Learning All The Time

Raising Your Spirited Child

Kids Beyond Limits: The Anat Baniel Method for Awakening the Brain and Transforming the Life of Your Child With Special Needs

Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think And What We Can Do About It

Your Child’s Growing Mind: Brain Development and Learning From Birth to Adolescence

Einstein Never Used Flashcards: How Our Children Really Learn–and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less

Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs

Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids

Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too

No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind

Touchpoints-Birth to Three

Your Amazing Newborn

The Parenting Teens Navigation System

The Emotional Life of the Toddler

Infants, Toddlers, and Caregivers: A Curriculum of Respectful, Responsive, Relationship-Based Care and Education

1,2,3…The Toddler Years: A Practical Guide for Parents and Caregivers