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Child development Lists by Experts All Time Best Trending New By Book DNA List by Experts

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  • Sue Palmer The best books about child development and education Book cover of An Experiment in Education Book cover of Children's Minds Book cover of The Disappearance of Childhood Book cover of The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do Book cover of Play is the Way
  • Joni Levine The best books on toddler development and behavior Book cover of Touchpoints-Birth to Three Book cover of The Power of Play: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children Book cover of Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs Book cover of From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development Book cover of Understanding Toddlers & Twos: Winning Ways for Early Childhood Professionals
  • Kurt Philip Behm The best books to unlock children’s ability to think freely Book cover of The Power of Play: Learning What Comes Naturally Book cover of Screens Away, Time to Play! Book cover of Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life Book cover of How Children Learn Through Play Book cover of Bored No More!
  • Mary Sheedy Kurcinka The best books for new parents looking to prepare Book cover of And Baby Makes Three: The Six-Step Plan for Preserving Marital Intimacy and Rekindling Romance After Baby Arrives Book cover of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Book cover of Touchpoints-Birth to Three Book cover of Try New Food: How to Help Picky Eaters Taste, Eat & Like New Foods Book cover of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
  • Nigel Reed The best books on parenting from a dog behaviourist Book cover of Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers Book cover of French Children Don’t Throw Food Book cover of The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us about the Relationship Between Parents and Children Book cover of The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind Book cover of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read: (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)
  • Andy Grayson The best book introductions to psychology for non-psychologists Book cover of Children's Minds Book cover of Freud and Psychoanalysis: An Exposition and Appraisal Book cover of The Mismeasure of Man Book cover of The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language Book cover of Autism: An Inside-Out Approach: An Innovative Look at the 'Mechanics' of 'Autism' and its Developmental 'Cousins'
  • Paula S. Fass The best books to understand American parenting Book cover of The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care Book cover of Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children Book cover of Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood Book cover of Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America Book cover of A Right to Childhood: The U.S. Children's Bureau and Child Welfare, 1912-46
  • Andrew G. Marshall The best books about raising emotionally rounded children without exhausting your marriage Book cover of Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself Book cover of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read: (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did) Book cover of It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle Book cover of The Work / Parent Switch: How to Parent Smarter Not Harder Book cover of Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting: Five Strategies That End the Daily Battles and Get Kids to Listen the First Time
  • Beth Macgregor The best books for tired and frazzled parents Book cover of The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children Book cover of 100 Ways to Calm the Crying Book cover of Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child Book cover of Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life Book cover of The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
  • Alyssa Campbell The best parenting books for raising emotionally intelligent humans Book cover of Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life Book cover of The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind Book cover of Calm the Chaos: A Fail-Proof Road Map for Parenting Even the Most Challenging Kids Book cover of The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children Book cover of The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
  • Erica Komisar The best books on raising an emotionally secure and resilient child Book cover of Attachment Book cover of Diary of a Baby: What Your Child Sees, Feels, and Experiences Book cover of The Neurobehavioral and Social-Emotional Development of Infants and Children Book cover of Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development Book cover of The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood
  • Sara Zaske The best books for raising self-reliant children Book cover of Free-Range Kids: How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow Book cover of Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life Book cover of Mommy Laid An Egg: Or, Where Do Babies Come From? Book cover of How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character Book cover of How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
  • Karen Deerwester The best books to survive potty training with humor and understanding Book cover of Everyone Poops Book cover of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Book cover of The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind Book cover of The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us about the Relationship Between Parents and Children Book cover of One Big Pair of Underwear
  • John A. List The best books to start changing the world and/or yourself Book cover of Parent Nation: Unlocking Every Child's Potential, Fulfilling Society's Promise Book cover of Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work Book cover of How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be Book cover of Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen Book cover of Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
  • Betsy Brown Braun The best books to help you be the parent you want to be Book cover of Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive Book cover of The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness: Five Steps to Help Kids Create and Sustain Lifelong Joy Book cover of The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind Book cover of The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids Book cover of The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
  • Kimberly Ells The best books for smart moms Book cover of Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers Book cover of Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters Book cover of The Story of the Trapp Family Singers Book cover of When Life Gives You Pears: The Healing Power of Family, Faith, and Funny People Book cover of A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One-Child Policy
  • James Bernard Murphy The best books about how to live wisely in relation to your own childhood and old age Book cover of Emile: Or On Education Book cover of Childhood and Society Book cover of Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study Book cover of Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism Book cover of The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us about Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
  • Alice Sterling Honig The best books for a deep understanding of infant and toddler development Book cover of Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual Book cover of First Feelings: Milestones in the Emotional Development of Your Baby and Child Book cover of Rethinking the Brain: New Insights into Early Development Book cover of Childhood and Society Book cover of Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence
  • Howard Gardner The best books that offer new ways of thinking Book cover of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it Book cover of To the Finland Station: A Study in the Acting and Writing of History Book cover of Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art Book cover of Childhood and Society Book cover of Tristes Tropiques
  • Warren Farrell, PhD The best books to help boys thrive in a changing world Book cover of Saving Our Sons Book cover of Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Book cover of The Male Brain Book cover of Beyond Mars and Venus Book cover of Boys Adrift
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