Books for Parents of Children from 6 to 13 years:
Contemporary Culture
 
How Much Is Enough?: Everything You Need to Know to Steer Clear of Overindulgence and Raise Likeable, Responsible, and Respectful Children by Jean Illsley Clarke, Ph.D. , Connie Dawson, Ph.D. , David Bredehoft, Ph.D.
ISBN 1569244375
This site highly recommends this book. In it the authors offer their findings from research on adults who were overindulged as children and who today don’t know what is not enough, enough, or too much. The authors clarify the definition of overindulgence, and break it into 3 kinds: over-nurturing, giving too much, and too little structure. Advice, stories and strategies help the parent avoid overindulgence or repair the damage caused by overindulgence.
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Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson
ISBN 1573223077
This book flies in the face of easy "things just aren't the way they used to be" thinking. Johnson argues that rather than dumbing us down, pop culture provides challenges that actually makes us smarter.
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Raising Lifelong Learners: A Parents' Guide by Lydia Bellino and Lucy McCormick Calkins
ISBN 738200247
Calkins is the founding director of the College Teacher Writing Project. She and Bellino, an elementary school principal, help parents find ways to encourage a lifelong love of reading and writing. The book also includes chapters on math, science, and social studies.
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Strategies for Raising Resourceful, Resilient and Compassionate Children
 
The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition (Read-Aloud Handbook) by Jim Trelease
ISBN 141001615
Trelease emphasizes the importance of reading aloud to children and teens.
The author uses a Q&A format to address issues like television and the internet and gives tips on how to read to your child effectively to build a life-long love of reading.
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Parenting strategy 11 | 
