Book Review – Free Range Kids
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A refreshing, counter-cultural book on promoting independence in children.
Book Review – How to Dad
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A fun and informative book for first-time fathers.
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 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 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 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 Review – 1-2-3 Magic
Len's Star Rating: 5 out of 10. A solid book on behavioral strategies for parents.
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1930 as it provided information about new ways of parenting and educating troubled children but is now most useful as a historical reference.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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
Book Review – Between Parent and Child
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. One of the best books on parenting.
Book Review – The Explosive Child
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. The best book on parenting children who struggle with outbursts of anger.
Book Review – How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. An excellent book about parenting through empathy and effective communication.