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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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