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Bestsellers
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Hunt, Gather, Parent
- What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
- Written by: Michaeleen Doucleff
- Narrated by: Michaeleen Doucleff
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In Hunt, Gather, Parent, Doucleff sets out with her three-year-old daughter in tow to learn and practice parenting strategies from families in three of the world’s most venerable communities....
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Game changer. Life changer book.
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-10-30
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Duck Duck Groom
- Understanding How a Child Becomes a Target
- Written by: Anna Sonoda
- Narrated by: Anna Sonoda, LCSW
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In Duck, Duck Groom, Anna Sonoda provides the straight talk parents need about how predators target families and what caring adults can do to interrupt grooming....
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The Minds of Boys
- Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life
- Written by: Michael Gurian
- Narrated by: Darren Stephens
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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This practical book shows parents and teachers how to help boys overcome their current classroom obstacles by helping to create the proper learning environment, understand how to help boys work with their unique natural gifts, and more....
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The Disengaged Teen
- Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better
- Written by: Jenny Anderson, Rebecca Winthrop
- Narrated by: Jenny Anderson, Rebecca Winthrop
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning journalist Jenny Anderson and the Brookings Institution’s global education expert Rebecca Winthrop provide a powerful toolkit for parents of both checked-out and stressed-out teens that shows exactly what to do (and stop doing) to support their academic and emotional flourishing.
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BoyMom
- Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity
- Written by: Ruth Whippman
- Narrated by: Ruth Whippman
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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With wit, honesty, and a refusal to settle for easy answers, BoyMom charts a new path to give boys a healthier, more expansive, and fulfilling story about their own lives.
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Relatable and reframed the way I think
- By Gary on 2024-10-23
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The Most Important Year
- Pre-Kindergarten and the Future of Our Children
- Written by: Suzanne Bouffard
- Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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An eye-opening look inside pre-K in America and what it will take to give all children the best start in school possible....
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Hunt, Gather, Parent
- What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
- Written by: Michaeleen Doucleff
- Narrated by: Michaeleen Doucleff
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In Hunt, Gather, Parent, Doucleff sets out with her three-year-old daughter in tow to learn and practice parenting strategies from families in three of the world’s most venerable communities....
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Game changer. Life changer book.
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-10-30
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Duck Duck Groom
- Understanding How a Child Becomes a Target
- Written by: Anna Sonoda
- Narrated by: Anna Sonoda, LCSW
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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In Duck, Duck Groom, Anna Sonoda provides the straight talk parents need about how predators target families and what caring adults can do to interrupt grooming....
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The Minds of Boys
- Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life
- Written by: Michael Gurian
- Narrated by: Darren Stephens
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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This practical book shows parents and teachers how to help boys overcome their current classroom obstacles by helping to create the proper learning environment, understand how to help boys work with their unique natural gifts, and more....
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The Disengaged Teen
- Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better
- Written by: Jenny Anderson, Rebecca Winthrop
- Narrated by: Jenny Anderson, Rebecca Winthrop
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning journalist Jenny Anderson and the Brookings Institution’s global education expert Rebecca Winthrop provide a powerful toolkit for parents of both checked-out and stressed-out teens that shows exactly what to do (and stop doing) to support their academic and emotional flourishing.
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BoyMom
- Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity
- Written by: Ruth Whippman
- Narrated by: Ruth Whippman
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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With wit, honesty, and a refusal to settle for easy answers, BoyMom charts a new path to give boys a healthier, more expansive, and fulfilling story about their own lives.
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Relatable and reframed the way I think
- By Gary on 2024-10-23
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The Most Important Year
- Pre-Kindergarten and the Future of Our Children
- Written by: Suzanne Bouffard
- Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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An eye-opening look inside pre-K in America and what it will take to give all children the best start in school possible....
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The Boy Crisis
- Written by: Warren Farrell PhD, John Gray PhD
- Narrated by: Warren Farrell PhD, John Gray PhD
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
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What is the boy crisis? It's a crisis of education. For the first time in American history, our sons will have less education than their dads. It's a crisis of mental health. It's a crisis of sexuality. It's a crisis of purpose....
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Interesting facts disappointing perspective
- By Thomas on 2024-06-23
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Boys Adrift
- The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
- Written by: Leonard Sax
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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Why America's sons are underachieving, and what we can do about it. Something is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere 20 years ago....
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All of it
- By Omer Shehada on 2024-10-18
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The War Against Boys
- How Misguided Policies Are Harming Our Young Men
- Written by: Christina Hoff Sommers
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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After two major waves of feminism and decades of policy reform, women outperform men in nearly every measure of social, academic, and vocational well-being. Christina Hoff Sommers contends that it's time to take a hard look at present-day realities and recognize that boys need help....
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Love it
- By Lunatic on 2023-01-16
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How to Teach Kids Empathy
- A Parent’s Guide to Raise Compassionate Humans; Build Connection with Your Kids
- Written by: Ann Hester
- Narrated by: Kristin Ford
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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Learn the building blocks of empathy and emotional intelligence so you can foster perspective-taking, kindness, conflict resolution, and celebrating diversity.
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There Are No Children Here
- The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
- Written by: Alex Kotlowitz
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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This New York Public Library selection as one of the 150 most important books of the 20th century is a true-life portrait of growing up in the Chicago projects....
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page turner
- By Rodney G on 2024-08-08
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How Children Succeed
- Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
- Written by: Paul Tough
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs. But in How Children Succeed, Paul Tough argues that the qualities that matter most have more to do with character....
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engaging, informative and thought-provoking
- By Solange De Santis on 2021-01-26
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Parent Like It Matters
- How to Raise Joyful, Change-Making Girls
- Written by: Janice Johnson Dias, Jacqueline Woodson - foreword
- Narrated by: Janice Johnson Dias, Jacqueline Woodson
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Parenting is enormous work; it can be as overwhelming as it is fulfilling. Within Parent Like It Matters, parents will find the invaluable tools they need to raise resilient, optimistic girls who determine for themselves what their world will look like....
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Girls on the Edge
- Why So Many Girls Are Anxious, Wired, and Obsessed - and What Parents Can Do
- Written by: Leonard Sax
- Narrated by: Andrew Colford
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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A parenting expert reveals the four biggest threats to girls' psychological growth and explains how parents can help their daughters develop a healthy sense of self....
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Eye Opening
- By Jeff Alpaugh on 2023-03-26
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The Deepest Well
- Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
- Written by: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
- Narrated by: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress can lead to lifelong health problems and shows us what we can do to break the cycle....
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Thank you so much for this book!
- By Jen on 2022-11-16
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Bébé Day by Day
- 100 Keys to French Parenting
- Written by: Pamela Druckerman
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In Bringing up Bébé, journalist and mother Pamela Druckerman investigated a society of good sleepers, gourmet eaters, and mostly calm parents. Bébé Day by Day distills the lessons of Bringing up Bébé into an easy-to-listen-to guide for parents and caregivers....
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A summary of bringing home bebe
- By Nathan D on 2020-05-31
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The Queering of the American Child
- How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids
- Written by: Logan Lancing, James Lindsay
- Narrated by: James Lindsay
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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In this book, The Queering of the American Child, Logan Lancing and James Lindsay explain what Queer Theory is, where it comes from, how it got into schools, and what it's doing to children nationwide.
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Essential For Understanding Modern Wokeness
- By Kelly Hannigan on 2024-09-09
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The App Generation
- How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World
- Written by: Howard Gardner, Katie Davis
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
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Gardner and Davis are concerned with three vital areas of adolescent life: identity, intimacy, and imagination....
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One and Only
- The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One
- Written by: Lauren Sandler
- Narrated by: Lauren Sandler
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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Journalist Lauren Sandler is an only child and the mother of one. After investigating what only children are really like and whether stopping at one child is an answer to reconciling motherhood and modernity, she learned a lot about herself - and a lot about our culture's assumptions....
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NurtureShock
- New Thinking About Children
- Written by: Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman
- Narrated by: Po Bronson
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman argue that when it comes to children, we've mistaken good intentions for good ideas....
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very interesting
- By RENE NOREÑA DE LUCA on 2018-01-29
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The Orchid and the Dandelion
- Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive
- Written by: W. Thomas Boyce MD
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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An audiobook that offers hope and a pathway to success for those coping with "difficult" children, fully exploring the author's revolutionary discovery about childhood development, parenting, and the key to helping all children find happiness and success....
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Has some good points
- By RJ on 2022-03-11
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Mommy Burnout
- How to Reclaim Your Life and Raise Healthier Children in the Process
- Written by: Sheryl G. Ziegler
- Narrated by: Lisa Larsen
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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The ultimate handbook for the modern mother: a practical, and positive tool to help free women from the debilitating notion of being the "perfect mom", filled with funny and all too relatable true-life stories and realistic suggestions to stop the burnout cycle....
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Grain of salt
- By Natalie Bender on 2019-09-13
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Cruel to Be Kind
- Saying No Can Save a Child's Life
- Written by: Cathy Glass
- Narrated by: DeNica Fairman
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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Cruel to Be Kind is the true story of Max, age six. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes....
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Some of the best of Glass
- By Charlie Belleville on 2024-09-01
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The Invention of Childhood
- Written by: Hugh Cunningham
- Narrated by: Michael Morpurgo
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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The Invention of Childhood explores how gender, geography and ethnicity has impacted the development of children throughout the ages....
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Third Culture Kids, Third Edition
- Growing Up Among Worlds
- Written by: David C. Pollock, Ruth E. Van Reken, Michael V. Pollock
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In this third edition of the groundbreaking, global classic, Ruth E. Van Reken and Michael V. Pollock, son of the late original coauthor, David C. Pollock, have significantly updated what is widely recognized as "The TCK Bible"....
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I Miss Mummy: The true story of a frightened young girl who is desperate to go home
- Written by: Cathy Glass
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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In her new book, Cathy Glass, the number one best-selling author of Damaged, tells the story of the Alice, a young and vulnerable girl who is desperate to return home to her mother....
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Sky's Story
- Thrown Away Children, Book 5
- Written by: Louise Allen
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case like no other. Raised by unhinged parents who hoarded compulsively, creating horrific conditions no child should live in, the two girls arrived at foster carer Louise's home....
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Montessori
- The Science Behind the Genius
- Written by: Angeline Stoll Lillard
- Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
- Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
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One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn....
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Who's Raising the Kids?
- Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children
- Written by: Susan Linn
- Narrated by: Susan Linn
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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From a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children comes a timely investigation into how big tech is hijacking childhood—and what we can do about it....
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Never Let Go
- How to Parent Your Child Through Mental Illness
- Written by: Suzanne Alderson
- Narrated by: Suzanne Alderson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Never Let Go is a supportive and practical guide for parents looking after a child with a mental illness. Suzanne Alderson understands the agonising struggle of bringing a child back from the brink of suicide, having spent three years supporting her own daughter through recovery....