Parenting Books

Explore 15 curated parenting books for homeschoolers and educators. Each resource has been reviewed for quality before being listed.

Learn how to raise your kids, teach them the right stuff, guide them to experiences and friends who will be positive for them, and learn how to deal with difficult situations such as disciplining.

Cover of The Organized Student by Donna Goldberg and Jennifer Zwiebel

The Organized Student: Teaching Children the Skills for Success in School and Beyond

Donna Goldberg's practical system for teaching organisation — binders, backpacks, planners and workspaces — for the bright student who loses everything.

Uniquely Human book by Barry Prizant

Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism

A paradigm-shifting book that reframes autism as a difference to be understood rather than a disorder to be fixed, with practical guidance for parents and educators.

Smart but Scattered Teens book by Peg Dawson

Smart but Scattered Teens: The Executive Skills Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential

The teen-focused follow-up to the bestselling Smart but Scattered, providing executive skills strategies specifically designed for adolescents aged 12-18.

The Out-of-Sync Child book by Carol Stock Kranowitz

The Out-of-Sync Child (3rd Edition): Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Differences

The essential guide for parents understanding Sensory Processing Disorder — how to recognize it, how it affects learning, and how to help your child thrive.

Smart but Scattered book by Peg Dawson

Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary Executive Skills Approach

A practical guide helping parents build executive function skills in children who are bright but struggle with organization, time management, and follow-through.

The Explosive Child book by Ross W. Greene

The Explosive Child (6th Edition)

A groundbreaking guide to understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children using Collaborative & Proactive Solutions.

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Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success

Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success

Psychologist Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestseller The Price of Privilege, brings together cutting-edge research and thirty years of clinical experience to explode once and for all the myth that good grades, high test scores, and c...

NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

Among the topics covered: Why the most brutal person in a child's life is often a sibling, and how a single aspect of their preschool-aged play can determine their relationship as adults. When is it too soon - or too late - to teach...

Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era

Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era

From two leading experts in education and entrepreneurship, an urgent call for the radical re-imagining of American education so that we better equip students for the realities of the twenty-first century economy. Today more than ever, we prize acade...

The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

How do other countries create “smarter” kids? What is it like to be a child in the world’s new education superpowers? The Smartest Kids in the World “gets well beneath the glossy surfaces of these foreign cultures and manages to make our own culture...

The Science of Parenting book cover

The Science of Parenting, 2nd Edition

Backed by the most up-to-date scientific research, The Science of Parenting, 2nd Edition provides evidence-based parenting advice about how you should care for your child, with practical strategies from birth to 12 years of age. Child psychotherapist...

Risk Takers, Problem Solvers, and Change Makers

Risk Takers, Problem Solvers, and Change Makers

In this book, a political powerhouse and mother of two thriving entrepreneurs interviews the moms of over fifty of today’s most successful innovators and—based on her findings—provides ten rules for raising confident, fearless, self-made individuals...

How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

“Drop the flashcards—grit, character, and curiosity matter even more than cognitive skills. A persuasive wake-up call.”—People Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about inte...

Parenting With Love And Logic

Parenting With Love And Logic

This parenting book shows you how to raise self-confident, motivated children who are ready for the real world. Learn how to parent effectively while teaching your children responsibility and growing their character. Establish healthy control through...

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson offer a revolutionary approach to child rearing with twelve key strategies that foster healthy bra...