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  Foundational Parenting Resources

Free Range Kids: How Parents & Teachers and Let Go and Let Grow  

by Lenore Skenazy

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

by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

 

Last Child in the Woods 

by Richard Louv

 

Listen: Five Simple Tools to Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges

by Patty Wipfler and Toscha Shore, M.A.

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Peaceful Parent, Happy Kid

by Dr. Laura Markham

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Respectful Parents Respectful Kids: 6 Keys to Turn Family Conflict Into Co-operation

by Sura Hart & Victoria Kindle Hodson

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

by Kim John Payne, M.ED. with Lisa M. Ross

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Unconditional Parenting: Moving From Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

by Alfie Hohn

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Families: Creating a Nuturing Family in a Turbulent World by Stephen Covey

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  Education Resources

Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life

by Peter Gray

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Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting Off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World

By Ben Hewitt

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

by William Stixrud, Ph.D., and Ned Johnson

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  Teens & Technology Resources

​Brainstorm: The Power & Purpose of the Teenage Brain

by Dan J. Siegel, M.D.

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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

by Nir Eyal with Ryan Hoover

 

iRules: What Every Tech-Healthy Family Needs to Know About Selfies, Sexting, Gaming & Growing Up

by Janell Burley Hoffman

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Media Moms and Digital Dads

by Yalda T. Uhls, Ph.D.

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Staying Connected to Your Teenager: How to Keep Them Talking to You and How to Hear What They're Really Saying

by Miachel Riera, Ph.D.

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The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place  

by Andy Crouch

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