[amazon asin=1607744082&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Joline Godfrey, author of Raising Financially Fit Kids. Topic: A pioneer in increasing children’s financial literacy talks about thriving in a post-Madoff, post-subprime meltdown world. Issues: Five financial development stages; essential skills children (of all ages) need to learn; observing your children’s money style and helping kids differentiate between […]
[amazon asin=1620876361&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Max Strom, author of There is No App for Happiness. Topic: How to avoid a near-life experience. Issues: Technology has expanded at such a rate that nearly every aspect of our world has been affected–but there has been no expansion of personal happiness. Instead, the wealthiest societies have become […]
[amazon asin=014312160X&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Jim Trelease, author of The Read-Aloud Handbook. Topic: Helping children become avid readers. Issues: How reading aloud awakens children’s imagination and improves language skills; the rewards and importance of reading aloud to kids; the latest research about reading–including the good and bad news about digital learning.
[amazon asin=1594204756&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Emily Oster, author of Expecting Better. Topic: Why the conventional pregnancy wisdom is wrong–and what you really need to know. Issues: Why it’s fine to have an occasional glass of wine; don’t worry about sushi–but wear gloves when you’re gardening; worry about gaining too little weight, not too much; […]
[amazon asin=0307884848&template=thumbleft&chan=default]John Elder Robison, author of Raising Cubby. Topic: A father and son’s adventure with Asperger’s, trains, tractors, and high explosives. Issues:How an unapologetically eccentric dad raised his equally eccentric son. A tender, suspenseful, and laugh-out-loud funny story of a father and son who grow up together.
[amazon asin=0465029825&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Jerome Kagan, author of The Human Spark. Topic: The science of human development. Issues: Why claims of the impact of attachment are based on misinterpreted research; the intertwined development of language and morality; the limited effects of childhood on later life; the role that culture and historical era play […]
[amazon asin=0761162410&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Elizabeth Fishel, coauthor of When Will My Grown-Up Kid Grow Up? Topic: Loving and understanding your emerging adult. Issues: The zigzagging road to adulthood; the college years; the boomerang kid; the bank of mom and dad; when things go wrong; having–and enforcing–expectations; emerging at last.
[amazon asin=1118228839&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Carl Pickhardt, author of Surviving Your Child’s Adolescence. Topic: How to understand, and even enjoy, the rocky road to independence. Issues: Preparing for the inevitable; a road map to early, mid-, and late adolescence; discipline that does–and doesn’t–work; why constant arguing is better than silence.
[amazon asin=0451413334&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Adrian Kulp, author of Dad or Alive. Topic: Confessions of a stay-at-home dad. Issues: One man’s hilarious journey from bringing home the bacon to frying it–along with assembling the crib, learning how to “accessorize” his daughter, flying with an infant for the first time, booze-free baby showers, and navigating […]
[amazon asin=1620576112&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Nicole Green, VP of Communication, Carson-Dellosa Publishing, publisher of Summer Bridge Activities Topic: Preventing summer learning loss. Issues: Reading comprehension; multiplication and division; social studies; grammar; character development, and more. [amazon asin=1250035856&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Laura Overdeck, author of Bedtime Math. Topic: Making math fun. Issues: Clever, smart ways to get kids interested […]