Teenage Kids

The books, in order

1. 1

   Family and Parenting · 16 min

   Brilliant Parents, Fascinating Teachers

   Augusto Cury

   A child learns more from watching parents make mistakes and recover than from hearing a ready-made speech about how to get things right.

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2. 2

   Family and Parenting · 16 min

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

   Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

   Listening all the way through before giving advice takes away the child's need to argue just to be heard.

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3. 3

   Family and Parenting · 16 min

   Bullying: Dangerous Minds in Schools

   Ana Beatriz Barbosa Silva

   Bullying is not just kids being kids: it is repeated aggression in which one side cannot defend itself, and brushing it off leaves scars.

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4. 4

   Family and Parenting · 16 min

   The Teenage Brain

   Frances E. Jensen

   The stage when the brain learns fastest is also the stage when it is most sensitive to certain influences.

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5. 5

   Mental Health · 16 min

   The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

   Jonathan Haidt

   In Haidt's reading, overprotecting kids in the real world and underprotecting them in the virtual world is a bad trade, one that no earlier generation of parents ever had to make.

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6. 6

   Family and Parenting · 14 min

   Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child

   John Gottman and Joan DeClaire

   According to the book, a child's emotion is an opportunity to teach, not a problem to be silenced as quickly as possible.

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7. 7

   Family and Parenting · 16 min

   The Danish Way of Parenting

   Jessica Joelle Alexander & Iben Dissing Sandahl

   Free play is practice in negotiation, losing, and creativity, things that no workbook teaches with the same power.

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