Books every Parent should read
13 Things Mentally Strong Parents don't do
Do today’s children lack the flexibility and mental strength they need to cope with life’s challenges in an increasingly complicated and scary world? With safe spaces and trigger warnings designed to "protect" kids, many adults worry that children don’t have the resilience to reach their greatest potential. Amy Morin, the author who identified the characteristics that mentally strong people share, now gives adults—parents, teachers, and other mentors—the tools they need to become mental strength trainers. While other books tell parents what to do, Amy teaches parents what "not to do," which she says is equally important in raising mentally strong youngsters.
Learning with a visual brain in an auditory world
Even though many scholars recognize that individuals with autism spectrum disorders use visual ways of thinking, most fail to realize that a visual mental language is different from physically seeing something. This book addresses visual ways of thinking by recommending strategies that are language-based and consider the complexity of the underlying biological learning system. This unique approach can be used to provide direction for choosing the most effective assessment and intervention methods for people with ASD.
Too loud too bright too fast too tight
This prescriptive book by a developmental psychologist and sufferer of Sensory Defensive Disorder (SD) sheds light on a little known but common affliction in which sufferers react to harmless stimuli as irritating, distracting or dangerous.
The Whole-Brain Child
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"It gives a really thorough understanding of how children develop, why they do and react the ways they do early in life, and, most importantly, it gives real, workable methods for helping children (and parents) deal with life's ups and downs."
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Simplicity Parenting
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​​​​​​​​​​"Brilliant, wise informative, innovative, entertaining, and urgently needed...a doable plan for providing the kind of childhood kids desperately need today!"
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How to Talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk
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Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, internationally acclaimed experts on communication between parents and children, give advice on how to talk productively with children in the interest of harmony and cooperation.
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