![Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Cz7mSihbL._SL75_.jpg) | Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
Buy new: $18.71 / Used from: $5.30 the last two chapters deal with parenting. It turns out kids don't learn from what parents tell them, but how their parents live.
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 | The Human Fabric: Unleashing the Power of Core Energy in Everyone by Bijoy Goswami
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $9.24 Parents often unwittingly expect their kids to be like them. It turns out the Golden Rule does not apply. So the challenge becomes noticing children's unique energy and nurturing it.
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 | Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever by Mem Fox
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $2.00 Recommended by my mother, Leela Goswami (www.leelagoswami.com), a lifelong humanraiser. The key insight: reading to children long before they can read helps them become great readers!
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 | How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk (How to Help Your Child) by Adele Faber
Buy used from: $7.46 recommended by multiple friends who have kids
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 | Little Big Minds by Marietta McCarty
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Rather than transmit one's particular values, philosophy and spirituality to children, the task is to help them think for themselves and come to their own answers to life's BIG QUESTIONS. It turns out they're natural philosophers!
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 | Divorced Dads' Rules for Raising Relatively Stable Kids by Patrick Talley
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $44.62 parenting wisdom forged from the crucible of single-parenting
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 | Free the Beagle: A Journey to Destinae by Roy H. Williams
Buy new: $12.78 / Used from: $0.01 We're all on our own individual hero's journey. Helping children realize and take responsibility for their own journey is the greatest gift we could give them.
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 | Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $12.35 let your child discover their passion, then nurture it - 10,000 hrs is what it takes to be great, which is about 10yrs. Tiger Woods, Einstein, Richard Branson, Mozart and Bill Gates (to name a few) just got an earlier start than the rest of us with the ever-present encouragement and support of their parents.
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 | On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.39 understanding why 10,000 hours of deliberate practice is the secret - the neocortex needs multiple exposures to the same phenomenon to develop a rich time-based hierarchical model
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