Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A refreshing, counter-cultural book on promoting independence in children.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDDecember 13, 2023The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Relationships, Family, Child, Humor, Supportive, Parenting, Parent, Independence, Resilience, Development, Anxiety, Children, Culture, Kids, Learning, Play, UnconventionalComment

Book Review – How to Dad

Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A fun and informative book for first-time fathers.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDNovember 23, 2023The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Relationships, Marriage, Family, Pregnancy, Delivery, Men, Fatherhood, Infancy, Newborn, Manual, Child, Humor, Intimacy, Supportive, ParentComment

Book Review – Raising Good Humans Every Day

Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A helpful parenting book on using mindfulness strategies in parenting children.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDOctober 13, 2023The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Kids, Family, Parenting, Relationships, Children, Child, Parent, Mindfulness, Reframing, Meditation, Compassion, Communication, Breathing, Natural, Gratitude, Play, Forgiveness, Special Time, Inner Critic, Emotions, Emotional, Love, Shame, Skills, AnxietyComment

Book Review – When Worry Works

Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A good book that addresses the maladaptive patterns that parents can experience when reacting to anxiety over their adolescent’s academic achievement.

Book Review – Educated

Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. A collection of life stories and memories of a young woman in her experiences of the transformational power of education, friendships, and choosing self to escape the entrapments of poverty, isolation, and a dysfunctional, abusive family system.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDAugust 13, 2022The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Bipolar, PTSD, Education, Self-actualization, Family, Love, Paranoia, Rural, Memoir, Religion, Trauma, Freedom, College, Compassion, Christian, Development, Existential, Suffering, Grief, Loss, Growth, Identity, Learning, Meaning, Poverty, Parent, Resilience, Trust, Relationships, Shame, Stigma, CourageComment

Book Review – Parenting from the Inside Out

Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A good book for parents to better understand how their experiences have shaped their interactions with their children and the steps they can take to improve their parenting.

Book Review – Brainstorm

Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent book for teens, young adults and parents to better understand the amazing personal, interpersonal and neurobiological changes that occur in adolescence.

Book Review – Positive Discipline

Len's Star Rating: 5 out of 10. A book for parents and teachers that covers approaches and strategies for children that do not involve punishment or humiliation.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDJuly 24, 2021The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Kids, Family, Parenting, Relationships, Children, Child, ParentComment

Book Review – The Power of Showing Up

Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. An important parenting book that covers essential, foundational attachment-based parenting approaches.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDJuly 11, 2021The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Kids, Family, Parenting, Attachment, Relationships, Children, Child, Love, Natural, ParentComment

Book Review – 1-2-3 Magic

Len's Star Rating: 5 out of 10. A solid book on behavioral strategies for parents.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDJune 30, 2021The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Behavior, Behavioral, Boys, Girls, Child, Children, Consequences, Family, Kids, Time Out, Discipline, Parent, Parenting, RelationshipsComment

Book Review – Guiding the Child

Len's Star Rating: 3 out of 10. A book that was progressive when published in 1930 as it provided information about new ways of parenting and educating troubled children but is now most useful as a historical reference.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDDecember 17, 2020The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Parent, Parenting, Girls, Boys, Child Abuse, Anger, Child, Children, Discipline, Communication, Empathy, Humanistic, Historical, Kids, Relationships, Sex, Sexual, TherapyComment

Book Review – SOS Help for Parents

Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. An excellent parenting book with a primary focus on behavioral approaches, such as time-outs, in parenting children age 12 and younger.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDOctober 21, 2020The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Parenting, Parent, Children, Kids, Child, Time Out, Behavior, Discipline, Relationships, Natural, Consequences, PsychiatricComment

Book Review – Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids

Len's Star Rating: 5 out of 10. A solid parenting book with useful information for parents of young children.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDOctober 18, 2020The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Parenting, Parent, Empathy, Children, Kids, ChildComment

Book Review – No Shame

Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A new standard as an important parenting book that addresses the sexual development and expression of kids in our current culture.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDOctober 16, 2020The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Parenting, Parent, Children, Kids, Child, Sex, Sexual, Development, CBT, DBT, Boys, Girls, RelationshipsComment

Book Review – No-Drama Discipline

Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. The best parenting book that has been released since 1998. It has a wealth of ideas for parents with a wonderful mixture of neuroscience, general approaches and specific recommendations.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDJune 4, 2020The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Parenting, Parent, Empathy, Children, Kids, Child Comments

Book Review – Raising Lions

Len's Star Rating: 3 out of 10. A book about dealing with the challenging behavior of children through the lens of interpersonal dynamics, power differentials, and behavioral strategies and plans.

Book ReviewLen Lantz, MDMay 26, 2020The Psychiatry ResourceBook, Review, Parenting, Parent, Empathy, Children, Kids, Child Comment

Book Review – The Whole-Brain Child

Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A concise read and a very good book that blends parenting strategies with the science of childhood emotional and cognitive development.