PARENT ED RESOURCES
BOOKS
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A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
Dr. Becky Kennedy provides a practical perspective for strengthening resilience for children and parents. Her salient advice normalizes parents' experiences. Parents will learn strategies to effectively manage challenges with empathy while remaining a trusted authority in children’s lives. Good Inside is a must read for parents of all ages.
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Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
How to Raise an Adult has been a must read at Cliff Valley for several years. Julie Lythcott-Haims provides extensive research and rationale for promoting independence, critical thinking, and executive function skill development as crucial for lifelong success. She notes several factors including parental and societal factors that undermine children’s growth and development. How to Raise an Adult offers critical insights and essential information to support the competencies and resilience that children need to be truly successful in life.
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The New Psychology of Success
After decades of research, Dr. Dweck offers clinical insights and practical advice for how our mindsets impact our work, relationships, and wellness. She shows how having a growth mindset contributes to success in all areas of life. People with a fixed mindset, a belief that abilities are fixed, tend to shy away from challenges and inhibit potential. Those with a growth mindset believe that talents and abilities are the starting point and with practice, effort, and dedication one can continue to grow and learn throughout their entire lives.
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Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind
Parenting is hard, but it is easier when we have an understanding for why children act the way they do. The Whole Brain Child is an insightful and accessible guide for grasping basic concepts in neurodevelopment of children. Through specific strategies based in neuroscience, parents will gain useful tools that support emotional intelligence and resilience in their children.
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Raising Resilient, Self-Reliant, and Secure Kids in an Age of Anxiety
Dr. Koplewicz is the founding president and medical director of the renowned Child Mind Institute. In The Scaffold Effect, he has provided an expert perspective on child development. His advice is practical, effective, and research based. Dr. Koplewicz gives parents the tools to be empathic, firm, and supportive to foster resilience and well-being.
BOOKS FOR ADOLESCENT AGE
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The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
In Brainstorm, Siegel illuminates how brain development impacts teenagers’ behavior and relationships. Drawing on important new research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology, he explores exciting ways in which understanding how the teenage brain functions can help parents make what is in fact an incredibly positive period of growth, change, and experimentation in their children’s lives less lonely and distressing on both sides of the generational divide.
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Understanding and Supporting the Weird and Wonderful Adolescent Learner
Whether you're a parent interacting with one adolescent or a teacher interacting with many, you know teens can be hard to parent and even harder to teach. The eye-rolling, the moodiness, the wandering attention, the drama. It's not you, it's them. More specifically, it's their brains.
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A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
Dr. Frances E. Jensen is chair of the department of neurology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. As a mother, teacher, researcher, clinician, and frequent lecturer to parents and teens, she is in a unique position to explain to readers the workings of the teen brain. In The Teenage Brain, Dr. Jensen brings to readers the astonishing findings that previously remained buried in academic journals.
VIDEO
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Carol Dweck, Stanford University
Stanford professor, Carol Dweck, explains why mindsets matter and how we can foster growth mindset in our children.
ARTICLES
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How to Help Kids Who Are Too Hard on Themselves
Bolstering self-critical children who tend to talk themselves down
Writer: Katherine Martinelli
Clinical Expert: Rachel Busman, PsyD, ABPP
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Parenting Tweens: What You Should Know
Explaining the challenges of early adolescence
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What to Do (and Not Do) When Children Are Anxious
How to respect feelings without empowering fears
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InBrief: Executive Function
This brief is part of a series that summarizes essential scientific findings from Center publications.
PODCASTS
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The Brain Architects: Building Resilience Through Play
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You might think you know what it takes to lead a happier life… more money, a better job, or Instagram-worthy vacations. You’re dead wrong.
WEBSITES
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Good Inside is the expert-guided, community-powered platform equipping parents with a new way of seeing and solving challenges at home.
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The mission of the Center on the Developing Child is to drive science-based innovation that achieves breakthrough outcomes for children facing adversity.
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We’re dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders by giving them the help they need. We’ve become the leading independent nonprofit in children’s mental health by providing gold-standard evidence-based care, delivering educational resources to millions of families each year, training educators in underserved communities, and developing tomorrow’s breakthrough treatments.