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Academic Struggles & parenting

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The Disintegrating Student: Struggling but Smart, Falling Apart, and How to Turn It Around

The truth is that many smart students reach a point where they feel overwhelmed and stressed out. As their grades drop, so does their self-esteem, and this combination of external and internal pressures can seem insurmountable. To make matters worse, students feel unable to ask for or accept help.

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Jeannine Jannot
2024
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Superparenting for ADD: An Innovative Approach to Raising Your Distracted Child

With decades of experience working with ADD children, Dr. Edward Hallowell has long argued that ADD is too often misunderstood, mistreated, and mislabeled as a “disability.” Now he teams up with top academic ADD researcher Peter S. Jensen, M.D.

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Edward M. Hallowell, Peter S. Jensen
2010
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What to Do if Your College Kid's Grades Are Slipping

The transition from high school to college is not always an easy one.

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Sherri Gordon
2021
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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs.

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Paul Tough
2013
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Our Children and the Crisis in Education

Leadership isn’t becoming the CEO or the few percent who will end up in big leadership positions. We are talking about leading your own life, being a leader among your friends, being a leader in your own family.

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Stephen R. Covey
2010
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Happy Teachers Change the World: A Guide for Cultivating Mindfulness in Education

Happy Teachers Change the World is the first official, authoritative manual of the Thich Nhat Hanh/Plum Village approach to mindfulness in education.

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Thich Nhat Hanh, Katherine Weare, Jon Kabat-Zinn (foreword)
2017
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Developing a Growth Mindset with Carol Dweck

Should you tell your kids they are smart or talented? Professor Carol Dweck answers this question and more, as she talks about her groundbreaking work on developing mindsets. She emphasizes the power of "yet" in helping students succeed in and out of the classroom.

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Carol Dweck
2014
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Differently Wired: A Parent’s Guide to Raising an Atypical Child with Confidence and Hope

A how-to, a manifesto, and a wise and reassuring companion for parents of neuroatypical children, who often feel that they have no place to turn, Differently Wired offers 18 paradigm-shifting ideas—what the author calls “tilts”—that will change everything, including how to Get Out of Isolation...

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Deborah Reber
2024
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What If the Secret to Success Is Failure?

We all know—on some level, at least—that what kids need more than anything is a little hardship: some challenge, some deprivation that they can overcome, even if just to prove to themselves that they can.

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Paul Tough
2011
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RSA Animate: How to Help Every Child Fulfill Their Potential

Ever wondered why kids say they’re bored at school, or why they stop trying when the work gets harder? Educationalist Carol Dweck explains how the wrong kind of praise actually *harms* young people.

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Carol Dweck
2015
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