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The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money
Good parenting means talking about money with our kids. Children are hyper-aware of money, and they have scores of questions about its nuances. But when parents shy away from the topic, they lose a tremendous opportunity—not just to model the basic financial behaviors that are increasingly important for young adults but also to imprint lessons about what the family truly values.
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Screen Time by Lisa Guernsey
In her book, Screen Time by Lisa Guernsey She explains how to avoid the hype of “brain stimulation” and focus instead on social relationships and the building blocks of language and literacy.
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How To Say It To Girls: Communicating with Your Growing Daughter (How to Say It…)
The expert guide to girl talk.
How to Say It(r) to Girls provides a wellspring of practical advice for parents on how to broach uncomfortable subjects with girls of all ages, or how to simply open the lines of communication. This book offers concrete words, phrases, and sample dialogues to help parents figure out what to say and how best to say it.
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The Strength Switch By Lea Waters
This game-changing book The Strength Switch By Lea Waters shows us the extraordinary results of focusing on our children’s strengths rather than always trying to correct their weaknesses.
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Mindfulness for Parents: Finding Your Way to a Calmer Happier Family
This book will teach you how to become a better more patient parent using mindfulness. It will help you to:
– Stay calm in a crisis
– Feel more connected to your children
– Be patient
– Throw yourself into an activity
– Not say something you may regret
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works–and How It Fails
In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics.
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Lighting Their Fires: How Parents and Teachers Can Raise Extraordinary Kids in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World
In Lighting Their Fires, Esquith translates the inspiring methods from Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire for parents.
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The Conscious Parent’s Guide to Raising Boys
Concerns about self-esteem, peer pressure, and behavior can make raising healthy, happy boys seem overwhelming–but it doesn’t have to be. With the help of The Conscious Parent’s Guide to Raising Boys, you can encourage open communication with your son.
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The Conscious Parent’s Guide to Raising Girls
By Erika V. Shearin Karres & Rebecca Branstetter
Raising a confident, self-assured girl in today’s world is complicated, but it can be done–with the help of The Conscious Parent’s Guide to Raising Girls.
Inside, you’ll find the strategies you need to help your daughter navigate through her world of school cliques, confusing media messages, and pressures to be a “good girl.” With smart, comprehensive advice on the trials and triumphs of raising a daughter with patience, this concise guide explains how you can:
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A Treasury of Rumi
This new anthology of Rumi’s teachings is freshly translated and supplemented with commentaries, and also includes selected texts in Persian. The aim is to bring readers closer to his work’s true, traditional meaning – and to the man himself as a great Islamic scholar, teacher and saint.
Besides illustrating the traditional basis of Rumi’s teachings, this Treasury displays his unique genius as one of the world’s greatest religious writers, whose voice speaks as clearly and compellingly today as in the 7th/13th century.
‘Everyone has, in their view, become my close friend
but they have not sought out the secrets within me.’
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Written in the Stars By Aisha Saeed
Naila’s conservative immigrant parents have always said the same thing: You may choose what you want to be when you grow up, but we will choose your husband. Dating, even a friendship with a boy, is forbidden. So when Naila falls in love with Saif, a Pakistani-American classmate, and tries to date him on the sly, her parents are livid.