Personal Development For Kids

In Raising Kids, family therapist and parent educator Sheri Glucoft Wong and Silicon Valley private school head Olaf Jorgenson team up to deliver a guide to parenting that is as encouraging as it is illuminating. With its easy-to-grasp language and tools, Raising Kids is there for you, from managing family routines, screen time, and homework, to supporting friendships, self-esteem, and resilience. You'll find out how being "on your spot" leads to fewer conflicts and replaces threats, nagging, and punishment with clear, effective messages that make sense to your kids.

Are you overwhelmed by your child’s screen habits, worried about social media, or unsure how to set healthy boundaries in a digital world? Raising Digital Natives: Parenting in the Age of Technology is the ultimate parenting audiobook for navigating modern childhood in a tech-saturated culture. Parenting mentor and relationship educator Ryan D. Blake gives you clear, compassionate strategies to help your child build emotional resilience, avoid online risks, and form a strong digital identity aligned with your family values.

This extraordinary guidebook offers a satisfying new approach to raising confident, healthy, whole human beings, from toddler to teen. Groundbreaking in both its scope and methodology, ParentShift challenges some of our most popular disciplinary tools - including punishments, threats, bribery, and rewards - all of which, science has shown, sabotage so many of the long-term goals we have for our kids.

Tired? Do you need help getting your child to sleep? Well, we have the answer. Magical Bedtime Meditations is a beautiful soundtrack of meditations, created especially for children. Using hypnotic and meditative language, these guided meditations are designed to relax restless bodies and calm busy minds. The result: sleepy, calm and rested children.

You've likely had this intuition yourself as you side-eye that family across the restaurant-kids and parents alike hunched over their individual devices. Or maybe you've bemoaned the decline of childhood hallmarks like pick-up games and biking across town-replaced by the allure of infinite entertainment, and the growing expectation that parents manage every aspect of their kids' lives.

Picture it - it's 8:30 p.m. You close the door to your child's room just as you hear your partner closing the dishwasher, and now it's time for an hour or two of glorious freedom. What do you do? Read the book you've been waiting to crack open all day? Chat on the phone with a friend, glass of wine in hand, or go out with pals and share a whole bottle? Or, like many modern parents, do you get caught up in chores, busywork, and social media black holes?

Does watching your child lose their temper feel like looking into a mirror? Your children look to you for everything; from lunch money and homework help, to impulse control and emotional regulation. You are the model by which they set their standards. So, when it comes to anger management, are you demonstrating model behavior? If the answer is "no", you’re not alone. Even parents need help learning how to control our emotional responses, especially when it comes to feeling frustrated with our offspring.

Do you have kids? Grandkids? Nieces or nephews? Are you expecting a little one? The fact is, if you answered yes to any of those questions, you are in a unique position to give the child or children in your life every physical and mental advantage possible. You can give your kids the ability to look, feel, and perform like optimized human machines.

Parenting a child with ADHD can be challenging, but with the right tools, you can help them build focus, emotional regulation, and lasting confidence. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Kids with ADHD is a practical, science-backed guide that equips parents, caregivers, and therapists with proven strategies to support children with ADHD in everyday life.

If we judge the West by the state of its families, the West is sick. Millions of children barely see their parents, or for only a few minutes a day. One in two families break down, for better or worse. The casualties throng the family courts. Our maladjusted system has made the ideal of 'mom' and 'dad' - i.e. a loving, constant, adult presence in a child's infancy - a rarity. To speak of the 'maternal instinct' still elicits scorn or embarrassment from some feminists, who continue to mock 'holy motherhood'.

What does it mean to be a good parent? Are you a good parent when your child is compliant, but a bad parent when they're not? What if they're perfect at age three and challenging at 13? And what if your child has additional needs? This is an audiobook about parenting styles and what it takes to be a great parent. We know about tiger parents, helicopter parents, free-range parents, but have you heard of Tesla parents, leaf-blower parents and iPhone 6 parents? We can parent in so many ways, but is there a style that actually works?

When the empirical meets the adorable. Babies can be a joy - and hard work. Now they can also be a 50-in-1 science project kit! This fascinating and hands-on guide shows you how to re-create landmark scientific studies on cognitive, motor, language, and behavioral development using your own bundle of joy as the research subject. Simple, engaging, and fun for both baby and parent, each project sheds light on how your baby is acquiring new skills - everything from recognizing faces, voices, and shapes to understanding new words and learning to walk.

In the best-selling tradition of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen, here is the first book that answers the questions "Why do my kids push my buttons?" and "How can I stop it from happening?" It's a given-kids push their parents buttons like nobody else can. Too many parents can be provoked to react with harmful anger, and children learn to manipulate their parents' emotions repeatedly, resulting in unhealthy life-long patterns.

Are you tired of the endless battles over screen time with your kids? Do you struggle to convince them that being glued to their devices isn’t good for their well-being? In Screen Time Standoff, Clayton Cranford, a 20-year law enforcement veteran and father of two boys who grew up in the smartphone era, provides parents with the communication skills they need to reclaim control of their child's screen time without constant fighting.

Every parent will have to discipline a child at some stage. No matter how well behaved they are, they all have a moment when behavior lapses and falls below what is expected. In years gone by, it was the custom to use physical force to chastise children, but this has been shown to be ineffective and now parents look for other ways to deal with problems.

Unlock your tween's full potential and rediscover the joy of parenting with this exclusive 2-in-1 bundle. It combines practical parenting strategies and powerful affirmations to effectively support your child's journey through middle school and beyond.

In Parental Control: A Guide to Raising Balanced Kids in the Digital Era, Titania Jordan, a renowned internet and social media safety specialist, tackles the urgent dilemmas of modern parenting head-on. As technology increasingly engulfs the lives of our children, this book emerges as a beacon for those looking to guide, protect, and connect with them in meaningful ways.

Building Bounce with Kids is designed to resource families and communities who want to build resilient kids. Life is filled with adversity. Emotional capacity is the key to navigating adversity well. The good news is that no matter how old we are, we can learn to be more resilient. The more resilient our families and communities become, the more resilient our children will be. Written simply and easy to understand, you will finish this book with a robust understanding of how to build strong, healthy attachments with children and walk with them through difficult emotions.

This money skills for kids book age 11 and 12 helps tweens build confidence with real life money decisions before poor habits take hold. Unlike others, it uses relatable scenarios and hands-on lessons designed for kids. Ideal for parents, homeschoolers, and educators. listeners call this the best children’s money audiobook for tweens because it’s clear, practical, and age-appropriate. It makes saving money, budgeting, and financial literacy feel natural and builds long-term confidence.

How do we keep our kids close while cultivating the confidence they’ll need to grow up? How do we navigate the inevitable dips, divides, and potholes? Where do we find the strength, self-awareness, and wisdom that amount to a path forward? Despite the parenting opportunities in the tween years, we often spend time focused on academics and the social concerns of elementary school then quickly pivot to worries about safety, drugs, sex and the rebellious behavioral issues of the teen years.