Caring and Growing Up
Tween
Teen
Mindfulness and Meditation Made Cool With This Moment Is Your Life (and So Is This One)
Introduce tweens and teens to the benefits of yoga and meditation with this fun and hands-on guide to practicing mindfulness.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
What To Do When Your Child Is Not Kind
Dr. Thomas Lickona shares parenting strategies that can help parents and caregivers struggling with a child who is often unkind.
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
How to Help Your Daughter Manage Her Inner Critic
A girl’s inner critic can stop her from showcasing her strengths and building her social relationships. Fortunately, there are things parents can do to help.
Grown-Up Reads
How Losing Ourselves in Stories Can Help Us Find Our Greater Truths
Rhiannon Navin wasn’t planning on featuring a beloved kids’ book series in Only Child, her novel about a boy coping with trauma. Yet, the more she progressed, the more it made sense.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Simple Gestures to Spark Greater Compassion: Holly McGhee on Her Timely Story for Children
Come with Me is a story about spreading kindness and compassion in troubled times. Here, Holly M. McGhee shares the inspirations behind the timely tale.
Teen
11 Touching Books to Boost Empathy in Teen Readers
Author Michel Stone and her daughter share their favorite perspective-broadening reads for teens and young adults.
Tips & Advice
Serenity Now! 3 Quick and Easy Meditations for Kids
If you're curious about meditation, but aren't sure where to start, check out these easy at-home meditations for kids.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
8 Picture Books That Inspire a Positive Outlook
Even the happiest and most hopeful of kids will sometimes feel less than optimistic. Books to the rescue! These eight picture books can help children find the rainbow’s end again, and reinforce the sense that resilience resides within, always.
Tween
In the Business of Getting Along: 4 Simple Tips for Surviving Your Kids’ Tween Years
Amy Cooper Hakim, Ph.D., an industrial-organizational psychology practitioner, helps people at work to get along. When her kids started acting up, she adapted some workplace tactics to ensure that her family could get along better too.
Tips & Advice
Building a World of Empathy Through the Simple Yet Profound Act of Reading Aloud
Reading aloud can provide a pathway for a child to build an empathetic life. By reading together, and talking about different characters, ideas, and themes, we can help create a sense of self-awareness and an awareness of others.
Growing Reader
Tween
Books That Help Kids Walk in Someone Else's Shoes
Kids highly recommend these books that build empathy and understanding of our diverse world by allowing readers to walk in someone else’s shoes for a while.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Tween
Teen
Silent and Strong: 15 Books for Kids and Teens Who Are Introverts
Whether kids or teens are looking for validation, acceptance, or tips on handling social situations, there are great books for all kinds of introverts.
