What We’re Reading

Heather Lanier explores how to defy the bounds of normal and embrace parenthood as a spiritual practice that breaks us open in the best ways.

In this guide, psychologist and teen expert Lucie Hemmen offers ten tips to guide teens toward creating and maintaining the social life they desire.

Lisa Damour’s award-winning guide to the sometime erratic and confusing behavior of teenage girls. This book prepares parents for what’s to come.

Another bedtime adventure from Good Night, Gorilla author Peggy Rathmann. A highly original story told in a lilting text and a bold new style.

Many parents react in times of stress without thinking and often by yelling. With this book, you’ll find powerful skills for calming your own stress response. 

Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson offer a revolutionary approach to child rearing.

This funny guide won’t give you advice on how to enjoy exercise, or healthy food. What you will find are skills to help you do the healthy things you should be doing. 

A guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ intense emotional lives—and how to support teens through this critical developmental stage.

Exuberant hippopotamus guests show up in ever-increasing numbers, until an all-night party is inevitable! Perfect for travel time, bedtime, or party time!

Despite imagining herself with silly features like “knobby knees, or purple polka-dotted lips”, this indomitable little girl’s sense of self-worth remains strong.