Recommended Reading
- Malcolm Gauld’s Blog: Parenting Posts
- Small Animals – Parenthood in the Age of Fear by Kim Brooks
- The Admissions (a novel) by Meg Mitchell Moore
- The Road to Character by David Brooks
- The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace – A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs
- The Parents We Mean to Be by Richard Weissbourd
- Feeling Good – The New Mood Therapy by David Burns
- There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz
- Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown
- The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff
- A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting by Hara Estroff Marano
- NPR Ed – “The ‘Overparenting’ Crisis In School And At Home”
- Washington Post – “The college admissions scandal is more proof that helicopter parenting hurts kids”
Helpful Videos
The Eagle Hill Series
Laura Gauld and Pam Hardy presented a Biggest Job Workshop at Eagle Hill School in Greenwich, CT. We have curated five clips from the workshop that will inspire you in your own parenting. Included are;
- The Fender Bender: A Story from Laura Gauld’s Teen Years
- What’s at the center of your family?
- The Dance of Deception
- World Class Parenting vs. Pathetic Moments of Parenting
- Five Fundamentals of Parenting
Inspirational Videos from Outside Hyde’s Gates