Books like Smart Play by Barbara Sher

Deep Work shows how focused, distraction-free effort is a rare yet essential skill for achieving superior results and genuine fulfillment in today’s fast‑paced economy.

Steal Like an Artist is a visually engaging guide that translates Austin Kleon’s viral lecture into actionable advice for writers, artists, designers, entrepreneurs and anyone who wants to make things in the digital age.

Elizabeth Gilbert shares her personal creative process, guiding readers to embrace curiosity, overcome fear, and unlock hidden inspiration through practical attitudes and habits for a more creative, passionate life.

The Artist’s Way offers a practical, twelve‑week guide of creative exercises and reflective practices designed to help writers, musicians, painters and other artists unlock and sustain their creative potential.

This book is directed to the parents, teachers, and counselors of preschool children.Integrity, Honesty, Individuality, Self-Confidence, and Wisdom: the ingredients for a successful life begin at a very early age. Sue Spayth Riley acknowledges the factors and complexities of modern life that inhibit the development of values in children while stating that we need not surrender to them. Decision-making is the key. Riley demonstrates how the child’s ability to make up his or her own mind plays a major role in ethical and moral education. Through examples, anecdote, and clinical observation, as well as theory, Sue Spayth Riley shows how problems such as blanket-weaning, staying dry, hostile behavior, and too much television can be resolved by the child.Boson Books also offers this book in print. For an author bio, photo, and sample read visit bosonbooks.com.

A practical guide for parents seeking real, research‑based strategies to help their children become fluent in a second language, covering language choice, effective materials, and leveraging family strengths.

Lifestyle coach Sher discusses the "Scanner"--Someone who frequently has a multiplicity of interests, but finds it hard to create a successful life, because their passions and abilities are taking them in so many different directions. Sher identifies seven types of Scanners--ranging from the Serial Specialist (someone who learns all about one subject, only to get bored and need to move on to the next) to Sybil (a person with so many areas of interest, she can't finish a thing). Sher counsels Scanners that theirs is a unique ability, not a liability, and contends that Scanners must do everything they love, not zero in on one pursuit at the expense of all others. She offers techniques to free people from "goal paralysis," and shows how people can stop thinking of themselves as dabblers or dilettantes and find innovative ways to live lives of variety, challenge and joy.--From publisher description.

A parenting guide by school psychologist Dr. Sal Severe, focusing on changing parental behavior to positively influence children’s behavior.

A comprehensive guide to understanding and supporting children with sensory integration issues, featuring expert insights from a parent and occupational therapist.

A practical guide for parents and caregivers that pairs advice on selecting age‑appropriate books with an annotated list of over 300 titles, organized by life moments and themes to enhance early reading experiences.

In "Overcoming Dyslexia," expert Dr. Sally M. Shaywitz explains the science behind reading difficulties and offers practical, step‑by‑step strategies for parents, teachers, and children of all ages to help dyslexia’s effects be managed and overcome.

A comprehensive guide to teaching children essential life skills and academic success through engaging activities.

Good Dad/Bad Dad offers practical, conversational guidance for fathers, covering everything from baby‑proofing to college planning, all drawn from the author’s own parenting experience.

A cutting-edge handbook for parents, from a pioneer in infant brain development, that bridges the gap between the most current neuroscience and practical parenting techniquesDr. Jill Stamm's daughter was born almost four months premature, and doctors insisted she would never walk or talk. Now, thirty-two years later, her daughter is living proof that nearly every baby's brain has the potential to adapt and flourish given the right attention. A leading authority in infant brain development, she makes new, remarkable findings accessible to everyone in Bright from the Start. What babies need is as simple as A, B, C:ATTENTION: including how to increase a child's attention span, and how to balance stimulation with down timeBONDING: illustrating the importance of developing emotional attachment between a child and a consistent caregiver—and why this is key to cognitive developmentCOMMUNICATION: with breakthrough advice for tapping the correlation between verbal engagement with parents and higher IQ rates among childrenShe also discusses what kind of childcare environment to select, why learning toys don't teach as much as you think, why reading to a baby is critical, and how you can help your child learn how to pay attention. By working with Dr. Stamm's ABCs in Bright from the Start, all parents can help to build a radiant future for their precious little ones.

A groundbreaking guide to using Personality Type analysis to understand and improve parenting strategies with children.