Curated Reading List

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation (Amazon)
Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.

Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain (Amazon)
Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Amazon)
Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.

Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men (Amazon)
Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.

Girls on the Edge: Why So Many Girls Are Anxious, Wired, and Obsessed—And What Parents Can Do (Amazon)
Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.

Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement (Amazon)
Rich Karlgaard

Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society’s Betrayal of the Child (Amazon)
Alice Miller, Ph.D. (heavy reading)

Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries (Amazon)
Alice Miller, Ph.D.

For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence (Amazon)
Alice Miller, Ph.D.

Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students (Amazon)
Denise Clark Pope, Ed.M., Ph.D.

Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It (Amazon)
Jane Healy, Ph.D.

Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children’s Minds — For Better and Worse (Amazon)
Jane Healy, Ph.D.

Your Child’s Growing Mind: Brain Development and Learning from Birth to
 Adolescence (Amazon)
Jane Healy, Ph.D.

Imagery and Text: A Dual Coding Theory of Reading and Writing (Amazon)
Mark Sadoski, Ph.D., and Allan Paivio, Ph.D. (technical/theory)

Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative (Amazon)
Ken Robinson, Ph.D.

Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life (Amazon)
Ken Robinson, Ph.D.

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (Amazon)
Maryanne Wolf, Ed.D.