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Book Clubs

Sadly, we are no longer hosting Book Clubs. However, we did read a LOT of great books over the years. See below for a list of the books we learned from.

Previous Book Club selections:

  • Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D.
  • Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life by Stuart Shanker, Ph.D.
  • Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
  • Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership With Your Child by Ross Greene, Ph.D.
  • Not What I Expected: Help and Hope for Parents of Atypical Children by Rita Eichenstein, Ph.D.
  • Smart But Scattered: The Revolutionary “Executive Skills” Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential by Peg Dawson & Richard Guare
  • The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives by William Stixrud & Ned Johnson
  • The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children by Alison Gopnik
  • Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky
  • Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World by Deborah Reber
  • Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioral Challenges by Mona Delahooke, Ph.D.
  • The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder by Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A.
  • Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Kristin Neff, Ph.D.
  • The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
  • The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
  • Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  • The Declarative Language Handbook by Linda Murphy, CCC-SLP
  • The Co-Regulation Handbook by Linda Murphy, CCC-SLP
  • What Happened to You? by Bruce Perry, M.D., Ph.D. and Oprah Winfrey
  • What Do You Say? How to Talk with Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home by William Stixrud, Ph.D. & Ned Johnson
  • The Child Code by Danielle Dick, Ph.D.