Recommended Readings

  • The Mediatrician's Guide: A Joyful Approach to Raising Healthy, Smart, and Kind Kids in a Screen-Saturated World

  • How To Raise An Adult

  • My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole

  • Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls

  • The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals

  • The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents

  • How People Matter: Why it Affects Health, Happiness, Love, Work, and Society

  • Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides

Other Recommended Reads

  • Jessica Grose: Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

  • David Brooks: How To Know A Person; The Art of Seeing Others Deeply And Being Deeply Seen

  • Sam Goldstein/Robert B. Brooks: Tenacity in Children; Nurturing the Seven Instincts for Lifetime Success

  • Kenneth R. Ginsburg, MD, MSEd: Building Resilience in Children and Teens

  • Harold S. Koplewicz, MD: Scaffold Parenting

  • Belle Liang, PhD and Timothy Klein, LCSW: How To Navigate Life

  • Susan Linn: Who’s Raising the Kids

  • Jennifer Breheny Wallace: Never Enough; When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-And What We Can Do About It

  • Dale Atkins, PhD and Amanda Salzhauer, MSW: The Kindness Advantage; Cultivating Compassionate and Connected Children

  • Kate Murphy: You’re Not Listening; What You’re Missing and Why It Matters

  • Lisa Damour, PhD: The Emotional Lives of Teenagers; Raising Connected, Capable and Compassionate Adolescents

  • Wendy Wood: Good Habits, Bad Habits; The Science of Making Positive Changes that Stick

  • Laurie Helgoe,PhD: Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength