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Hunt, Gather, Parent
- What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
- Written by: Michaeleen Doucleff
- Narrated by: Michaeleen Doucleff
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In Hunt, Gather, Parent, Doucleff sets out with her three-year-old daughter in tow to learn and practice parenting strategies from families in three of the world’s most venerable communities....
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Game changer. Life changer book.
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-10-30
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How Children Succeed
- Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
- Written by: Paul Tough
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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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. But in How Children Succeed, Paul Tough argues that the qualities that matter most have more to do with character....
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engaging, informative and thought-provoking
- By Solange De Santis on 2021-01-26
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The Deepest Well
- Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
- Written by: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
- Narrated by: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress can lead to lifelong health problems and shows us what we can do to break the cycle....
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Thank you so much for this book!
- By Jennifer Gurini on 2022-11-16
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In Plain Sight
- The Startling Truth Behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation
- Written by: Tom Smart, Lee Benson
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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This riveting inside story of the intense search for the Salt Lake City teenager who was kidnapped from her bed reveals never-before-told details of the largest investigation in Utah state history....
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The other side of the story
- By Roberta W on 2019-04-07
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American Girls
- Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
- Written by: Nancy Jo Sales
- Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer, Nancy Jo Sales
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of Nancy Jo Sales' American Girls....
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Girls on the Edge
- Why So Many Girls Are Anxious, Wired, and Obsessed - and What Parents Can Do
- Written by: Leonard Sax
- Narrated by: Andrew Colford
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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A parenting expert reveals the four biggest threats to girls' psychological growth and explains how parents can help their daughters develop a healthy sense of self....
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Eye Opening
- By Jeff Alpaugh on 2023-03-26
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Hunt, Gather, Parent
- What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
- Written by: Michaeleen Doucleff
- Narrated by: Michaeleen Doucleff
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In Hunt, Gather, Parent, Doucleff sets out with her three-year-old daughter in tow to learn and practice parenting strategies from families in three of the world’s most venerable communities....
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Game changer. Life changer book.
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-10-30
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How Children Succeed
- Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
- Written by: Paul Tough
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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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. But in How Children Succeed, Paul Tough argues that the qualities that matter most have more to do with character....
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engaging, informative and thought-provoking
- By Solange De Santis on 2021-01-26
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The Deepest Well
- Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
- Written by: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
- Narrated by: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress can lead to lifelong health problems and shows us what we can do to break the cycle....
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Thank you so much for this book!
- By Jennifer Gurini on 2022-11-16
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In Plain Sight
- The Startling Truth Behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation
- Written by: Tom Smart, Lee Benson
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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This riveting inside story of the intense search for the Salt Lake City teenager who was kidnapped from her bed reveals never-before-told details of the largest investigation in Utah state history....
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The other side of the story
- By Roberta W on 2019-04-07
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American Girls
- Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
- Written by: Nancy Jo Sales
- Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer, Nancy Jo Sales
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of Nancy Jo Sales' American Girls....
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Girls on the Edge
- Why So Many Girls Are Anxious, Wired, and Obsessed - and What Parents Can Do
- Written by: Leonard Sax
- Narrated by: Andrew Colford
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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A parenting expert reveals the four biggest threats to girls' psychological growth and explains how parents can help their daughters develop a healthy sense of self....
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Eye Opening
- By Jeff Alpaugh on 2023-03-26
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Them Before Us
- Why We Need a Global Children's Rights Movement
- Written by: Katy Faust, Stacy Manning
- Narrated by: Katy Faust
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Them Before Us blazes a new trail through the difficult terrain of marriage and family issues. It’s the only book that filters the complexities of marriage, familial relationships, and reproductive technologies....
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Refreshing, revolutionary, basic
- By Amazoner on 2023-05-02
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Boys Adrift
- The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
- Written by: Leonard Sax
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Why America's sons are underachieving, and what we can do about it. Something is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere 20 years ago....
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So informational!
- By Sheeds on 2023-07-24
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Bébé Day by Day
- 100 Keys to French Parenting
- Written by: Pamela Druckerman
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
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In Bringing up Bébé, journalist and mother Pamela Druckerman investigated a society of good sleepers, gourmet eaters, and mostly calm parents. Bébé Day by Day distills the lessons of Bringing up Bébé into an easy-to-listen-to guide for parents and caregivers....
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A summary of bringing home bebe
- By Nathan D on 2020-05-31
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The War Against Boys
- How Misguided Policies Are Harming Our Young Men
- Written by: Christina Hoff Sommers
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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After two major waves of feminism and decades of policy reform, women outperform men in nearly every measure of social, academic, and vocational well-being. Christina Hoff Sommers contends that it's time to take a hard look at present-day realities and recognize that boys need help....
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Love it
- By Lunatic on 2023-01-16
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The Silent Twins
- Written by: Marjorie Wallace
- Narrated by: Jodhi May
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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When identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons were three, they began to reject communication with anyone but each other, and so began a childhood bound together in a strange and secret world. As they grew up, love, hate and genius united to push them to the extreme margins of society....
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The Most Important Year
- Pre-Kindergarten and the Future of Our Children
- Written by: Suzanne Bouffard
- Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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An eye-opening look inside pre-K in America and what it will take to give all children the best start in school possible....
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One and Only
- The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One
- Written by: Lauren Sandler
- Narrated by: Lauren Sandler
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Journalist Lauren Sandler is an only child and the mother of one. After investigating what only children are really like and whether stopping at one child is an answer to reconciling motherhood and modernity, she learned a lot about herself - and a lot about our culture's assumptions....
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Billy's Story
- Thrown Away Children, Book 6
- Written by: Louise Allen
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Louise has trouble on her hands from the first moment that 5-year-old Billy Blackthorn comes to stay. He is one of more than 20 children taken into care from a single family, and erupts into the Allen household with a volatility that is frightening and disturbing in equal measure....
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Mommy Burnout
- How to Reclaim Your Life and Raise Healthier Children in the Process
- Written by: Sheryl G. Ziegler
- Narrated by: Lisa Larsen
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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The ultimate handbook for the modern mother: a practical, and positive tool to help free women from the debilitating notion of being the "perfect mom", filled with funny and all too relatable true-life stories and realistic suggestions to stop the burnout cycle....
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Grain of salt
- By Natalie Bender on 2019-09-13
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Face to Face with Serial Killers
- My Conversations with the World's Most Evil Men
- Written by: Christopher Berry-Dee
- Narrated by: Geoff Barham
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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We've all heard so much about the killers who grab the front pages, the ones whose crimes are so appalling that they exert a strange fascination on many people....
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Collateral Damage
- Guiding and Protecting Your Child Through the Minefield of Divorce
- Written by: Dr John Chirban
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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Based on research from more than 10,000 surveys from children and parents of divorce, Collateral Damage presents parents with an overview of the impact that divorce has on their children....
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Sky's Story
- Thrown Away Children, Book 5
- Written by: Louise Allen
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case like no other. Raised by unhinged parents who hoarded compulsively, creating horrific conditions no child should live in, the two girls arrived at foster carer Louise's home....
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Cruel to Be Kind
- Saying No Can Save a Child's Life
- Written by: Cathy Glass
- Narrated by: DeNica Fairman
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Cruel to Be Kind is the true story of Max, age six. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes....
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Another wonderful book by Cathy!
- By rhonda imoo on 2020-01-11
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Third Culture Kids, Third Edition
- Growing Up Among Worlds
- Written by: David C. Pollock, Ruth E. Van Reken, Michael V. Pollock
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In this third edition of the groundbreaking, global classic, Ruth E. Van Reken and Michael V. Pollock, son of the late original coauthor, David C. Pollock, have significantly updated what is widely recognized as "The TCK Bible"....
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I Miss Mummy: The true story of a frightened young girl who is desperate to go home
- Written by: Cathy Glass
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In her new book, Cathy Glass, the number one best-selling author of Damaged, tells the story of the Alice, a young and vulnerable girl who is desperate to return home to her mother....
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Family Unfriendly
- How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder than It Needs to Be
- Written by: Timothy P. Carney
- Narrated by: Timothy P. Carney
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the same two questions: Why is parenting so hard now? And why are the results so bad?
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Never Let Go
- How to Parent Your Child Through Mental Illness
- Written by: Suzanne Alderson
- Narrated by: Suzanne Alderson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Never Let Go is a supportive and practical guide for parents looking after a child with a mental illness. Suzanne Alderson understands the agonising struggle of bringing a child back from the brink of suicide, having spent three years supporting her own daughter through recovery....
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The Orchid and the Dandelion
- Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive
- Written by: W. Thomas Boyce
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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An audiobook that offers hope and a pathway to success for those coping with "difficult" children, fully exploring the author's revolutionary discovery about childhood development, parenting, and the key to helping all children find happiness and success....
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Has some good points
- By RJ on 2022-03-11
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Montessori
- The Science Behind the Genius
- Written by: Angeline Stoll Lillard
- Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
- Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn....
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Trust Kids!
- Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy
- Written by: Carla Bergman - editor, Matt Hern - foreword
- Narrated by: Zach Bergman
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The contributors of Trust Kids! write from different backgrounds, genders, ages, and sexualities and combine past lineages with more recent child-rearing ideas to offer a fresh, inspiring perspective....
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NurtureShock
- New Thinking About Children
- Written by: Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman
- Narrated by: Po Bronson
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman argue that when it comes to children, we've mistaken good intentions for good ideas....
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very interesting
- By RENE NOREÑA DE LUCA on 2018-01-29
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Baby X
- Britain's Child Abusers Brought to Justice
- Written by: Harry Keeble, Kris Hollington
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Baby X is a shocking and unforgettable story of how some of the UK's most disadvantaged children escaped their tormentors....
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Generation Z Unfiltered
- Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population
- Written by: Tim Elmore, Andrew McPeak
- Narrated by: Tim Elmore, Andrew McPeak
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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This generation of students who have grown up in the 21st century are the most social, the most empowered, and also the most anxious youth population in human history. If you are struggling to connect with and lead them, you are not alone....
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I See You, Survivor
- Life Inside (and Outside) the Totally F*cked-Up Troubled Teen Industry
- Written by: Liz Ianelli, Bret Witter - contributor
- Narrated by: Xe Sands, Liz Ianelli
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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A survivor of the Troubled Teen Industry exposes the truth about the dark side of a billion-dollar industry's institutionalized abuse—and shares the story of her own fight for justice....