Books like Your Child's Growing Mind by Jane Healy

Julie Lythcott‑Haims urges parents to step back, showing how over‑protectiveness hurts children and their stress, and providing practical ways to foster resilience, resourcefulness, and confidence in teens and young adults.

"Most parents today have accepted the message that the first three years of a baby's life determine whether or not the child will grow into a successful, thinking person. But is this powerful warning true? Do all the doors shut if baby's brain doesn't get just the right amount of stimulation during the first three years of life? Have discoveries from the new brain science really proved that parents are wholly responsible for their child's intellectual successes and failures alike? Are parents losing the "brain wars"? No, argues national expert John Bruer. In The Myth of the First Three Years he offers parents new hope by debunking our most popular beliefs about the all-or-nothing effects of early experience on a child's brain and development."--BOOK JACKET. "Bruer agrees that valid scientific studies to support the existence of critical periods in brain development, but he painstakingly shows that these same brain studies prove that learning and cognitive development occur throughout childhood and, indeed, one's entire life. Making hard science comprehensible for all readers, Bruer marshals the neurological and psychological evidence to show that children and adults have been hardwired for lifelong learning. Parents have been sold a bill of goods that is highly destructive because it overemphasizes infant and toddler nurturing to the detriment of long-term parental and educational responsibilities."--BOOK JACKET.

A foundational guide that blends cognitive psychology with instruction design, outlining nine systematic stages for creating effective courses, units, and modules.

Ellen Galinsky turns research into practical daily habits, showing parents how to build seven essential life skills—focus, perspective, communication, connection, critical thinking, challenge, and self‑directed learning—without extra cost or special training.

Explains how electronic media, fastpaced life-style, unstable family patterns, environmental hazard, and educational practices influence the way our children think.

The first book for K-12 educators written by an author who is both a neurologist and a classroom teacher. Willis explains the science behind the most effective teaching strategies.

Ever wonder what is going on in a baby's brain? Or how you can best nurture a child's natural development? Or why exactly Bach is better than Mozart for babies? This book will explain why. No technical knowledge is necessary, as Shore makes recent neurological findings accessible to all those who come into contact with young children. Everything a baby experiences in his or her first five years is building the foundation of life's learning potential. Through increasing the complexity of the early childhood environment in developmentally appropriate ways, we can nurture young children's brains. Developing Young Minds is a must-have for new parents or caregivers of young children.--From Amazon.com.