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How Can I Stay Positive for My Kids When I’m So Overwhelmed?

By Allison Briscoe-Smith — 2020

Even for a psychologist who studies how kids understand racism and violence, talking to her own children about it is difficult.

Read on greatergood.berkeley.edu

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Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before They Start High School

Trying to convince a middle schooler to listen to you can be exasperating. Indeed, it can feel like the best option is not to talk! But keeping kids safe—and prepared for all the times when you can't be the angel on their shoulder—is about having the right conversations at the right time.

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Michelle Icard
2025
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Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting

Based on the latest research on brain development and extensive clinical experience with parents, Dr. Laura Markham’s approach is as simple as it is effective. Her message: Fostering emotional connection with your child creates real and lasting change.

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Dr. Laura Markham
2012
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The SKILL-ionaire in Every Child: Boosting Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills Using the Latest in Brain Research

A wide body of recent brain research shows that socio-emotional skills are best cultivated by experiences that evoke positive emotions. In this inspiring book, Dr.

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Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin
2025
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What White People Can Do to Move Race Conversations Forward | Caprice Hollins | TEDxSeattle

In this 2020 TEDxSeattle talk, Dr. Caprice Hollins explains why we often fail to have productive conversations about race, race relations, and racism in this country.

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2020
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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race

The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America. Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups.

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Beverly Daniel Tatum
2017
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How to Respond to Racism in the Workplace

Joseph Grenny, coauthor of “Crucial Conversations,” shares tips for navigating racial bias in the workplace using facts, curiosity, and humility.

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2020
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Different Ways of Raising Your Children | Parenting Around the World | Real Families

How you raise your children is completely up to you, and how you discipline them can be different all around the world. Should smacking be illegal or does it depend on the child’s behaviour? What do you think? How involved are your family with raising your children?

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2018
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Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive (10th Anniversary Edition)

In Parenting from the Inside Out, child psychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and early childhood expert Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., explore the extent to which our childhood experiences shape the way we parent.

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Daniel J. Siegel, Mary Hartzell
2025
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Tips for Raising Your Child to Be More Successful

Educational psychologist Dr. Michele Borba is as world-renowned for her warm, down-to-earth speaking style as she is for cutting edge insights and research-based programs.

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Michele Borba
2017
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Parents Do Make a Difference: How to Raise Kids with Solid Character, Strong Minds, and Caring Hearts

Finally, a book that shows you how to teach kids the eightindispensable skills-self-confidence, self-awareness,communication, problem solving, getting along, goal setting,perseverance, and empathy-they'll need for living confident, happy,and productive lives.

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Michele Borba
1999
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