The Attachment Connection: Parenting a Secure & Confident Child Using the Science of Attachment Theory. Ruth Newton, $25.50

The Attachment Connection sorts out the facts from the fiction about parent-child attachment and shows how paying attention to the emotional needs of your child, particularly during the first five years of development, can help him or her grow up happy, secure, and confident. You'll discover how your child's brain is developing at each stage of growth and learn to use reasonable, easy-to-implement guidelines based on sound science to foster secure attachment, healthy social skills, and emotional regulation in your child.

Beautiful Oops! Barney Saltzberg, $19.95

It’s OK to make a mistake! In fact, hooray for mistakes! A mistake is an adventure in creativity, a portal of discovery. A spill doesn’t ruin a drawing — not when it becomes the shape of a goofy animal. And an accidental tear in your paper? Beautiful Oops! is filled with pop-ups, lift-the-flaps, tears, holes, overlays, bends, smudges, and even an accordion “telescope” — each demonstrating the magical transformation from blunder to wonder, as the smudge becomes the face of a bunny, a crumpled ball of paper turns into a lamb’s fleecy coat — celebrate the oops in life. 

The Blessing of a B Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers. Wendy Mogel, $17.00

With her warmth, wit, and signature combination of Jewish teachings and psychological research, Wendy Mogel helps parents to ably navigate the often rough journey through the teenage years and guide children to becoming confident, resilient young adults. By viewing the frustrating and worrisome elements of adolescence as "blessings," Mogel reveals that they are in fact necessary steps in psychological growth and character development to be met with faith, detachment, and a sense of humor rather than over-involvement and anxiety. Mogel gives parents the tools to do so and offers reassuring spiritual and ethical advice.

The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children. Wendy Mogel, $18.99

A practical and refreshing antidote to anxious over-parenting, The Blessing of a Skinned Knee is itself a blessing — pointing the way to raising self-reliant, compassionate and ethical children.

Bounce Back! A Book about Resilience. Cheri Meiners, illustrated by Elizabeth Allen, $14.99 each (ages 4-8)

Upbeat and true-to-life, this book inspires and guides preschool and primary-age children to accept and believe in themselves, ask for what they need, solve problems, show kindness to others, and make good decisions. Each book includes an activity guide for parents and teachers to use, with discussion questions, activities, games, and tips that reinforce the lessons from the book.

Bounce Back: How to Be a Resilient Kid. Wendy Moss, $13.95 (ages 8-12)

Think of a bouncing ball. When a bouncing ball hits the ground, it bounces back. That's what resilience means — the ability to bounce back from tough times. Some people seem to just automatically bounce back. But the truth is that resilience is not something you are born with or not — it can be learned.

Bounce Back will help you find your bounce using cool quizzes, lots of advice, and practical strategies that build up resiliency skills. You'll learn how to:

• understand your emotions
• coach yourself with self-talk
• calm yourself when you are upset
• deal with decisions, disappointments, and new challenges
• handle situations that are under your control
• negotiate, compromise, and navigate social conflicts
• cope with or adjust to serious sources of stress
• ask for help and guidance

Brave Parenting: a Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Raising Emotionally Resilient Children. Krissy Pozatek, $17.95

As parents today, we often feel that our role is to protect our children from the world: to cushion them when they fall, to lift them over obstacles, and to remove sharp rocks from their path. But controlling a child’s entire environment and keeping all pain at bay isn’t feasible — we can’t prepare the world for our children, so instead we should focus on preparing our children for the world. “The solution is not removing impediments from our children’s lives,” writes Krissy Pozatek, “it is compassionately encouraging them to be brave.” We need to show our kids how to navigate their own terrain.

If our kids face small hurdles, small pains, at a young age and learn to overcome these obstacles, they will be much better equipped to face larger trouble later in life. Early lessons in problem solving teach self-confidence and self-reliance — and show us that our kids are tougher than we think. Krissy draws her lessons from her experience guiding children in wilderness therapy and from her Buddhist practice — showing us that all life is as unpredictable as mountain weather, that impermanence is the only constant, and that the most loving act a parent can do is fearlessly ready their child to face the wilderness.

Building Emotional Intelligence: Techniques to Cultivate Inner Strength in Children. Linda Lantieri & Daniel Goleman, $24.50

What's the most important piece of your child's educational experience? If you think it's math, science, or reading, you might be overlooking an element that is fast becoming essential in today's stressful world: the capacity known as "inner resilience." In Building Emotional Intelligence, pioneering educator Linda Lantieri joins forces with renowned psychologist Daniel Goleman to help children respond to and rebound from the challenges unique to the 21st century by teaching children how to quiet their minds, calm their bodies, and manage their emotions more skillfully.

Linda Lantieri's proven techniques for increasing self-esteem, improving concentration and awareness, and enhancing empathy and communication are complemented by a spoken-word CD with exercises presented by Daniel Goleman.

Child's Mind: How Mindfulness Can Help Our Children Be More Focused, Calm & Relaxed. Christopher Willard, $16.95

Psychotherapist Christopher Willard provides an overview of mindfulness and meditation techniques, clear and detailed exercises designed for individuals and groups, and personal stories that demonstrate the ability of mindfulness to empower children and adolescents. CHILD'S MIND is an invaluable resource for teaching our children that confidence and power comes from the ability to be aware of and comfortable with ourselves and our surroundings.

The Confident Child: Raising Children to Believe in Themselves. Terri Apter, $20.00

Raising confident, motivated, and caring children is a parent’s greatest challenge. Drawing on her own extensive research on children and parents, Terri Apter has created a guide based on “emotional coaching” — learning to respond appropriately to a child’s feelings — that helps parents raise children to solve problems, to be socially active and understand others, and to manage emotions, all of which are crucial to developing confidence and functioning successfully in society. Hugely insightful, reassuring, and accessible, The Confident Child is a truly necessary parenting guide.

The Conscious Parent's Guide to Childhood Anxiety: a Mindful Approach for Helping Your Child Become Calm, Resilient, and Secure. Sherianna Boyle, $21.50

With The Conscious Parent's Guide to Childhood Anxiety, you will learn how to take a relationship-centered approach to parenting that engages your child and ensures that they succeed behaviorally, socially, and cognitively. Conscious parenting is about being present with your child and taking the time to understand how to help them flourish. By practicing this mindful method, you can support your child emotionally and help nurture his development. This easy-to-use guide helps you to:

• Communicate openly with your child about anxiety
• Build a supportive home environment
• Determine your child's anxiety triggers
• Learn strategies that will help your child release anxiety and feel calm
• Teach your child long-term coping skills
• Discipline your child without increasing his anxiety
• Educate and work with teachers and school officials

With The Conscious Parent's Guide to Childhood Anxiety, you will learn to create a calm and mindful atmosphere for the whole family, while helping your child feel competent, successful, and healthy.

Creating Capable Kids: Twelve Skills that will Help Kids Succeed in School and Life. Bruce Howlett & Caitlin Howlett, $23.50

Here is a compelling, thought provoking and practical guide to parenting and educating today's children. It is derived from Amartya Sen's Nobel Prize-winning approach to human development which has proven highly effective at freeing people from the chains of poverty. Educators Bruce and Caitlin Howlett apply Sen's approach to child development at home and in school and offering fresh, effective ways to rescue parenting and revive education, while providing parents, teachers and caregivers with a proven foundation for creating rewarding childhoods, academic success and fulfilling lives.

By incorporating the twelve key capabilities, such as sensory awareness, creative imagination, emotional and self-awareness, parents and educators can promote the three most critical tools for children's survival and success: continuous learning, problem solving, and increased knowledge and meaning. Using stories of three different types of children — Zoe, Mia and Daniel — the authors demonstrate the value of life and of the Capabilities Approach theory on how to cultivate inquisitive, actively engaged, motivated, perceptive and resilient children.

Dealing with Disappointment: Helping Kids Cope When Things Don't Go Their Way. Elizabeth Crary, $15.95

This practical, easy-to-read guide walks parents through the concept of emotional competency, which begins by teaching children to identify and acknowledge their feelings. It provides exercises and examples that demonstrate how children — even toddlers — can cope with their emotions, using self-calming techniques (exercise or a few minutes with a favorite book, for example) and problem-solving tools. Parents who too often find themselves overwhelmed by frustrated children will appreciate the step-by-step recommendations.

Developing Everyday Coping Skills in the Early Years: Proactive Strategies for Supporting Social and Emotional Development. Erica Frydenberg, Jan Deans & Kelly O’Brien, $55.95

This book will help develop coping skills through arts and language-based activities. The strategies suggested build on children's existing knowledge and skills to enhance their learning, and contribute to improving children's emotional health and creativity; developing resilience; and increasing children's capacity to cooperate, respect and play with others.

The authors also explain how to identify children at risk, particularly those experiencing anxiety or delay in social and emotional development, so that parents and practitioners can intervene early where difficulties exist. Practitioners and parents of children aged 3-8 will find a treasure trove of activities to build coping and self-esteem through creative play and imagination.

The Feeling Child: Laying the Foundations of Confidence and Resilience. Maria Robinson, $48.50

THE FEELING CHILD thoughtfully discusses the key principles of children’s emotional and behavioural development alongside descriptions of everyday practice. It clearly explains how a child’s early experiences influence their particular behaviours towards different people and different situations.

Throughout the book, Maria Robinson considers the key characteristics of effective learning and shows how play is one of the key mechanisms that children use in their discovery of themselves and the world around them. Emphasising the importance of understanding the theory that underpins children’s emotional development, this accessible text shows practitioners how they can use this knowledge to provide learning opportunities that nourish children’s thinking and creative skills.

Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking: Powerful, Practical Strategies to Build a Lifetime of Resilience, Flexibility and Happiness. Tamar Chansky, $17.00

Several years ago Dr. Tamar Chansky, a leading clinical expert on children and anxiety disorders, realized that roughly half of the children she sees in her clinical practice exhibit negative thinking. This negativity creates emotional hurdles that often hinder children from achieving success and happiness, both now and in the years to come.

Now in this landmark book, Dr. Chansky thoroughly analyzes the underlying causes of children’s negative attitudes and provides numerous strategies to help parents and their children manage negative thoughts, build optimism, and establish emotional resilience. She shows how to buffer kids from disappointment, failure, and frustration by helping them to think more accurately about their problems — to right-size them. Freeing your Child from Negative Thinking provides parents, caregivers, and clinicians with the tools they need to relieve a child from the burden of these emotional hurdles and to build the positive, confident mindset that will set them on their way to a bright, happy future.

The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed. Jessica Lahey, $19.99

Modern parenting is defined by an unprecedented level of overprotectiveness — parents now rush to school to deliver forgotten assignments, challenge teachers on report card disappointments, mastermind children's friendships, and interfere on the playing field. As teacher, journalist, and parent Jessica Lahey explains, even though these parents see themselves as being highly responsive to their children's well-being, they aren't giving them the chance to experience failure — or the opportunity to learn to solve their own problems.

Everywhere she turned, Lahey saw an obvious and startling fear of failure, in both her students and in her own children. This fear has the potential to undermine children's autonomy, competence, motivation, and their relationships with the adults in their lives. Providing a clear path toward solutions, Lahey lays out a blueprint with targeted advice for handling homework, report cards, social dynamics, and sports. Most important, she sets forth a plan to help parents learn to step back and embrace their children's setbacks along with their successes.

Empathetic and wise, The Gift of Failure is essential reading for parents, educators, and psychologists nationwide who want to help children thrive — and grow into independent, confident adults.

Growing Up Mindful: Essential Practices to Help Children, Teens, and Families Find Balance, Calm, and Resilience. Christopher Willard, $24.50

Introducing mindfulness into the lives of our children and teenagers is perhaps the greatest gift we can offer. Mindfulness builds emotional intelligence, boosts happiness, increases curiosity and engagement, reduces anxiety and depression, soothes the pain of trauma, and helps kids (and adults) focus, learn, and make better choices. If that weren’t enough, research now shows that mindfulness significantly enhances what psychologists call “flourishing” — the opposite of depression and avoidance.

Growing Up Mindful helps parents, educators, and counselors learn how to embody and share the skills of mindfulness that will empower our children with resilience throughout their lives. With more than 75 accessible exercises and practices, along with adaptations for the individual needs of a wide range of children and teens, this inspiring guidebook brings you road-tested insights and tools for:

• Tapping the power of the imagination, play, and creativity
• Body-based mindfulness and movement practices
• Creatively overcoming resistance and gaining kids’ buy-in
• The mindful use of technology and social media
• Building the foundation through your own personal practice
• “Attending” and “Befriending” — two positive responses to stress
• Setting intentions and managing expectations of new practitioners
• Sharing mindfulness in a formal setting including schools and workplaces
• Extending our practice into the larger communities we share

Growing Up Resilient: Ways to Build Resilience in Children and Youth. Tatyana Barankin & Nazilla Khanlou, CAMH, $14.95

Resilience in child development is a much-talked about topic these days. Many people want to better understand what it is, how it is related to the healthy development of children and youth and what they can do to strengthen resilience in young people. This new booklet from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) guides parents, educators, child and youth workers and other professionals in understanding and supporting the individual, family and community roots of resilience.

Growing Up with a Bucket Full of Happiness: Three Rules for a Happier Life. Carol McCloud, illustrated by Penny Weber, $14.95 (ages 9++)

Do you know you have an invisible bucket which is filled with all of your good thoughts and feelings? If you're new to the concept of bucket filling and bucket dipping, then this book is for you. With easy to read chapters, colorful illustrations, and daily questions to help readers become better bucket fillers, GROWING UP WITH A BUCKET FULL OF HAPPINESS gives readers the tools to live a life filled with happiness.

A Happy Hat. Cecil Kim, illustrated by Joo-Kyung Kim, $13.50 (ages 4-8)

A HAPPY HAT is a sweet and upbeat tale of resilience, optimism, and hope. The life story of a hat — a very happy hat — and its various owners illustrates how dealing with disappointments and stressful situations is crucial to one’s well-being.

The Happy Kid Handbook: How to Raise Joyful Children in a Stressful World. Katie Hurley, $21.95

Parenting today has gotten far too complicated. The truth is that whatever drumbeat you march to, all parents would agree that we just want our kids to be happy.

In The Happy Kid Handbook, child and adolescent therapist Katie Hurley reveals that cultivating happinessis about parenting the individual, because not every child is the same, and not every child will respond to parenting the same way. By exploring the differences among introverts, extroverts, and everything in between, this definitive guide to parenting offers specific strategies for:

• Understanding children's personalities and temperaments
• Teaching children how to regulate their emotions
• Helping children discover the importance of empathy
• Teaching assertiveness skills
• Reducing childhood stress and anxiety
• Helping children cope with frustration

 A back-to-basics guide to parenting, The Happy Kid Handbook is a must-have for any parent hoping to be the best parent they can be.

Healing Stories: Picture Books for the Big and Small Changes in a Child's Life. Jacqueline Golding, $22.95

Healing Stories recommends over 500 carefully selected books that can be used to help children cope with the everyday challenges of childhood and with life-changing crises; while offering adults the information they need to make the right choices for their kids.

Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why. Paul Tough, $27.50

In How Children Succeed, Paul Tugh introduced readers to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance, self-control, and conscientiousness play a critical role in children's success.

Now, in Helping Children Succeed, Paul Tough takes on a new set of pressing questions: What does growing up in poverty do to children’s mental and physical development? How does adversity at home affect their success in the classroom, from preschool to high school? And what practical steps can the adults who are responsible for them — from parents and teachers to policy makers and philanthropists — take to improve their chances for a positive future?

Tough encourages us to think in a brand-new way about the challenges of childhood. Rather than trying to “teach” skills like grit and self-control, he argues, we should focus instead on creating the kinds of environments, both at home and at school, in which those qualities are most likely to flourish. Mining the latest research in psychology and neuroscience, Tough provides us with insights and strategies for a new approach to childhood adversity, one designed to help many more children succeed.

The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them. Elaine Aron, $18.99

Highly sensitive children are deeply reflective, sensitive to the subtle, and easily overwhelmed. These qualities can make for smart, conscientious, creative children, but they can also become unusually shy or timid, or begin acting out. With chapters addressing the needs of specific age groups, from newborns through teens, THE HIGHLY SENSITIVE CHILD delivers warmhearted, timely information for parents, teachers, and the sensitive children in their lives.

How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character. Paul Tough, $22.50

Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs. But in HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED, Paul Tough argues that the qualities that matter more have to do with character: skills like perseverance, curiosity, optimism, and self-control.

HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED introduces us to a new generation of researchers and educators, who, for the first time, are using the tools of science to peel back the mysteries of character. Through their stories — and the stories of the children they are trying to help — Tough reveals how this new knowledge can transform young people’s lives. He uncovers the surprising ways in which parents do — and do not — prepare their children for adulthood. And he provides us with new insights into how to improve the lives of children growing up in poverty. This provocative and profoundly hopeful book will not only inspire and engage readers; it will also change our understanding of childhood itself.

The Hugging Tree: a Story about Resilience. Jill Neimark, $13.95 (ages 4-8)

The Hugging Tree tells the story of a little tree growing all alone on a cliff, by a vast and mighty sea. Through thundering storms and the cold of winter, the tree holds fast. Sustained by the natural world and the kindness and compassion of one little boy, eventually the tree grows until it can hold and shelter others.

The resilience of the Hugging Tree calls to mind the potential in all of us: to thrive, despite times of struggle and difficulty. To nurture the little spark of hope and resolve. To dream and to grow, just where we are. A Note to Parents and Caregivers by Elizabeth McCallum, PhD, provides more information about resilience, and guidelines for building resilience in children.

Kids Are Worth It: Raising Resilient, Responsible, Compassionate Kids, Revised 2010. Barbara Coloroso, $22.00

Barbara Coloroso delivers a powerful message that good parenting begins by treating kids with dignity and respect, giving them a sense of power in their own lives and offering them opportunities to make decisions, take responsibility for their actions and to learn from their mistakes. Rejecting the quick-fix solutions of punishment and rewards, Coloroso shows how to use the very stuff of family life to help you guide your children to become self-disciplined, responsible, resilient and compassionate human beings.

Little Voice. Amanda Bernardo, illustrated by Samantha Clusiau-Lawlor, $21.95 (ages 5-9)

Though written to inspire children, this short picture book is truly intended to inspire all who read it. Little Voice offers a message of encouragement, inspiration, perseverance, and motivation.

The Mindful Child. Susan Kaiser Greenland, $217.00

How to help your kid manage stress and become happier, kinder and more compassionate.

Mindful Movements: Ten Exercises for Well-Being. Thich Nhat Hanh, illustrations by Wietske Vriezen, $18.95

Initially developed as stretching breaks between long periods of sitting meditation, the Ten Mindful Movements have become a popular tool to reduce stress and tension. These simple and effective movements, based in yoga and Tai Chi, can increase mental, emotional, and physical well-being, and are suitable for people with a wide range of physical abilities. Each exercise is fully illustrated by Wietske Vriezen, a Dutch artist and movement teacher. The book includes a 35-minute DVD of Thich Nhat Hanh and members of the Plum Village Sangha demonstrating the Mindful Movements.

The Most Magnificent Thing. Ashley Spires, $16.95 (ages 3-7)

A young girl has a wonderful idea. She is going to make the most MAGNIFICENT thing! She knows just how it will look. She knows just how it will work. All she has to do is make it, and she makes things all the time. Easy-peasy! But making her magnificent thing is anything but easy, and the girl tries and fails, repeatedly. Eventually, the girl gets really, really mad. She is so mad, in fact, that she quits. But after her dog convinces her to take a walk, she comes back to her project with renewed enthusiasm and manages to get it just right. 

For the early grades' exploration of character education, this funny book offers a perfect example of the rewards of perseverance and creativity. The girl's frustration and anger are vividly depicted in the detailed art, and the story offers good options for dealing honestly with these feelings, while at the same time reassuring children that it's okay to make mistakes.

My Feeling Better Workbook: Activities that Help Kids Beat the Blues. Sarah Hamil, $23.95

There are many ways to help children who are sad and depressed, and you might not even realize how much you can do to make your child feel better. By working through this book, guiding your child through just one activity a day, you can empower him or her with the skills necessary to overcome sadness and low self-esteem and live an active, joyful life.

Nurturing Resilience in Our Children: Answers to the Most Important Parenting Questions. Robert Brooks & Sam Goldstein, $23.95

In their critically acclaimed parenting bestseller, Raising Resilient Children, Drs. Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein introduced readers to their breakthrough parenting model for raising resilient, emotionally healthy children capable of confronting life's challenges and bouncing back from setbacks. In this important Q&A follow-up book, Brooks and Goldstein elaborate and expand upon their theory of resilience by supplying reasonable, jargon-free answers to dozens of questions typically asked by the thousands of parents they've encountered through their workshops, seminars, and lectures.  NURTURING RESILIENCE IN OUR CHILDREN shows parents how to help their children develop key competencies and character traits.

The Optimistic Child: a Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience. Martin Seligman, $21.50

Dr. Martin Seligman offers parents, teachers, and coaches a well-validated program to prevent depression in children. In a thirty-year study, Seligman and his colleagues discovered the link between pessimism — dwelling on the most catastrophic cause of any setback — and depression. Seligman shows adults how to teach children the skills of optimism that can help them combat depression, achieve more on the playing field and at school, and improve their physical health.

Parenting the Whole Child: a Holistic Child Psychiatrist Offers Practical Wisdom On Behavior, Brain Health, Nutrition, Exercise, Family Life, Peer Relationships, School Life, Trauma, Medication, and More. Scott Shannon, $24.00

Complementing his book for professionals, here Scott Shannon equips parents and caregivers with a better way to understand the mental health challenges their children face, including how cutting-edge scientific concepts like epigenetics and neuroplasticity mean new hope for overcoming them. Readers learn how the most common stressors in kids — inadequate nutrition, unaddressed trauma, learning problems, family relationships, and more — are often at the root of behavioral and emotional issues, and what steps can be taken to restore health and wholeness, without immediately turning to medication.

Parenting Without Power Struggles: Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids While Staying Cool, Calm and Connected. Susan Stiffelman, $18.99

While most parenting programs are designed to coerce kids to change, PARENTING WITHOUT POWER STRUGGLES does something innovative, showing you how to come alongside your children to awaken their natural instincts to cooperate, rather than at them with threats or bribes, which inevitably fuels their resistance. By staying calm and being the confident “Captain of the ship” your child needs, you will learn how to parent from a place of strong, durable connection, and you’ll be better able to help your kids navigate the challenging moments of growing up.

Drawing upon her successful practice and packed with real-life stories, PARENTING WITHOUT POWER STRUGGLES is an extraordinary guidebook for transforming the day-to-day lives of busy parents—and the children they love.

Parents Do Make a Difference: How to Raise Kids with Solid Character, Strong Minds, and Caring Hearts. Michele Borba, $23.99

Finally, a book that shows you how to teach kids the eight indispensable skills-self-confidence, self-awareness, communication, problem solving, getting along, goal setting, perseverance, and empathy-they'll need for living confident, happy, and productive lives. Filled with step-by-step advice, practical ideas, and real-life examples, PARENTS DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE puts field-tested tools into the hands of every parent and teacher who wants their children to succeed.

The Parents’ Guide to Psychological First Aid: Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Predictable Life Crises. Gerald Koocher & Annette La Greca, $36.95

Compiled by two seasoned clinical psychologists, The Parents' Guide to Psychological First Aid brings together articles by recognized experts who provide you with the information you need to help your child or teen navigate the many trying problems that typically afflict young people.  An encyclopedic reference for parents concerned with maintaining the mental health of their children, this indispensable volume will help you help your child to deal effectively with stress and pressure, to cope with everyday challenges, and to rebound from disappointments, mistakes, trauma, and adversity.

The Power of Validation: Arming Your Child against Bullying, Peer Pressure, Addiction, Self-Harm & Out-of-Control Emotions. Karyn Hall & Melissa Cook, $24.95

Validation is the recognition and acceptance that a person's feelings and thoughts are true and real for him or her, regardless of whether or not those feelings make logical sense. This seemingly simple concept can determine whether a child has self-esteem or not, whether a child will grow to become an independent adult or a dependent one, and whether a child will be able to process feelings in a healthy way or express his or her emotions by throwing tantrums and acting out.

THE POWER OF VALIDATION breaks validation skills into practical steps parents can use to respond to their child's internal experiences in healthy ways without necessarily condoning their child's behaviors. Readers learn to pay attention to their child, acknowledge the child's thoughts and feelings, and help their child through the process of developing an identity of his or her own. By validating difficult emotions, but disallowing negative actions children may take in response to these emotions, parents can help their kids develop essential self-validating skills for the future that will foster self-esteem and emotional intelligence in adulthood.

Powered by Girl: a Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists. Lyn Mikel Brown, $21.00

Drawing from a diverse collection of interviews with women and girl activists, Powered by Girl is both a journalistic exploration of how girls have embraced activism and a guide for adults who want to support their organizing. Here we learn about the intergenerational support behind thirteen-year-old Julia Bluhm when she got Seventeen to go Photoshop free; nineteen-year-old Celeste Montaño, who pressed Google to diversify their Doodles; and sixteen-year-old Yas Necati, who campaigns for better sex education. And we learn what experienced adult activists say about how to scaffold girls’ social-change work. Brown argues that adults shouldn’t encourage girls to “lean in.” Rather, girls should be supported in creating their own movements — disrupting the narrative, developing their own ideas — on their own terms.

Raising Confident Boys: 100 Tips for Parents and Teachers. Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer, $16.50

Boys need to be noticed, admired, understood, and accepted to feel good about themselves. Boys who lack appropriate emotional support from the adults close to them are at risk of believing they don't fit in and are likely to act accordingly, engaging in risky behaviors-including at worst using drugs and acting out violently. RAISING CONFIDENT BOYS teaches readers what makes boys prone to low self-esteem and provides practical, effective tips for managing these situations as they arise.

Raising Confident Girls: 100 Tips for Parents and Teachers. Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer, $16.50

Girls need ample, loving demonstrations from adults close to them that they are appreciated and can be trusted to know what they need for themselves. They also need to be given plenty of opportunity to develop their talents. Girls who lack sufficient emotional support may feel neglected and unworthy of attention, and easily find themselves at greater risk of exploitation and abuse, even as adults. RAISING CONFIDENT GIRLS provides parents and teachers with the best hands-on, practical advice available for nurturing girls in a changing and challenging social environment.

Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents. Christine Carter, $21.00

With great wit, wisdom, and compassion, Christine Carter covers the day-to-day pressure points of parenting — how best to discipline, get kids to school and activities on time, and get dinner on the table — as well as the more elusive issues of helping children build healthy friendships and develop emotional intelligence. In 10 key steps, she helps you interact confidently and consistently with your kids to foster the skills, habits, and mindsets that will set the stage for positive emotions now and into their adolescence and beyond. Complete with a series of “try this” tips, secrets, and strategies, Raising Happiness is a one-of-a-kind resource that will help you instill joy in your kids — and, in the process, become more joyful yourself.

Raising Kids to Thrive: Balancing Love with Expectations, and Protection with Trust. Kenneth Ginsburg, with Ilana Ginsburg & Talia Ginsburg, $18.95

From pediatrician and award-winning author Ken Ginsburg comes this new work which explores an innovative idea in parenting: The Lighthouse Parenting Strategy. Offering essential tips on fostering resilience, this book helps parents understand how they can offer unconditional love, yet still set high expectations for their children; how to set boundaries — and when to get out the way so their teen can learn lessons firsthand.

Combining Dr. Ginsburg's experience as a doctor and parent, with the perspective of his two daughters — and more than 500 adolescents who participated in the youth view chapters — Raising Kids to Thrive offers a fresh take on how to successfully parent teens in today's complicated world.

Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope and Optimism in Your Child. Robert Brooks & Sam Goldstein, $20.95

Top child psychologists offer expert insight and practical advice for raising strong kids in today's complicated world.

Raising Resilient Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Strategies for Helping Them Maximize Their Strengths, Cope with Adversity and Develop a Social Mindset. Robert Brooks & Sam Goldstein, $23.95

In RAISING RESILIENT CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS, Dr. Goldstein and Dr. Brooks teach you the strategies and mindset necessary to help your child develop strength, hope, and optimism. This is the first approach for autism spectrum disorders based in the extremely popular field of positive psychology.

Featuring dozens of stories and an easy-to-follow, prescriptive narrative, Drs. Brooks and Goldstein demonstrate how to apply resilience to every parenting practice when raising a child with autism, preparing him or her for the challenges of today's complicated, ever-changing world and helping your child develop essential social skills. Learn how to:

• Empower your child to problem-solve on his or her ow
• Teach your child to learn from mistakes rather than feel defeated by them
• Discipline your child while instilling self-worth
• Build an alliance with your child's school

The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids: Help for Children to Cope with Stress, Anxiety & Transitions. Lawrence Shapiro & Robin Sprague, $23.95

Children pay close attention to their parents' moods. When parents feel upset, their kids may become anxious, and when parents wind down, children also get the chance to relax. When you feel overwhelmed and stressed, it can be hard to help your child feel balanced. The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids, written by two child therapists, offers more than fifty activities you can do together as a family to help you and your child replace stressful and anxious feelings with feelings of optimism, confidence, and joy.

You'll learn proven relaxation techniques, including deep breathing, guided imagery, mindfulness, and yoga, and then receive guidance for teaching them to your child. Your child will also discover how taking time to do art and creative projects can create a sense of fulfillment and calm. By completing just one ten-minute activity from this workbook each day, you'll make relaxation a family habit that will stay with both you and your child for a lifetime.

The Resilient Child: Seven Essential Lessons for Your Child’s Happiness and Success. George Everley, $21.95

Resiliency is what allows us to manage stress, to build stable relationships and to achieve success. The Resilient Child gives parents the tools to help children deal with life’s adversities, to develop strength of character, integrity, to make decisions and to problem-solve.

Rosie Revere, Engineer. Andrea Beaty, illustrated by David Roberts, $21.95 (ages 5-9)

Rosie may seem quiet during the day, but at night she’s a brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets who dreams of becoming a great engineer. When her great-great-aunt Rose (Rosie the Riveter) comes for a visit and mentions her one unfinished goal — to fly — Rosie sets to work building a contraption to make her aunt’s dream come true. But when her contraption doesn’t fly but rather hovers for a moment and then crashes, Rosie deems the invention a failure. On the contrary, Aunt Rose insists that Rosie’s contraption was a raging success: you can only truly fail, she explains, if you quit. Rosie Revere, Engineer is a charming, spirited picture book about believing in yourself and pursuing your dreams

A Short Introduction to Promoting Resilience in Children. Colby Pearce, $27.95

A child's capacity to cope with adversity and 'stand on their own two feet' is seen as critical to their development, well-being, and future independence and success in adulthood. Psychological strength, or resilience, directly affects a child's capacity to cope with adversity.

This book provides a succinct, accessible and clear guide on how to promote resilience in children and achieve positive developmental outcomes for them. The author covers three key factors that affect resiliency: vulnerability to stress and anxiety, attachment relationships, and access to basic needs. For each, the author presents practical advice and strategies, such as how to regulate children's stress and anxiety, how to encourage and maintain secure attachments, and how to assure children that their needs are understood and will be met. The model presented will help parents and carers ensure their children grow up happy, healthy and resilient.

The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving. Lisa Miller, $22.99

In The Spiritual Child, psychologist Lisa Miller presents the next big idea in psychology: the science and the power of spirituality. Combining cutting-edge research with broad anecdotal evidence from her work as a clinical psychologist to illustrate just how invaluable spirituality is to a child's mental and physical health, Miller translates these findings into practical advice for parents, giving them concrete ways to develop and encourage their children's — as well as their own — well-being. In this provocative, conversation-starting book, Dr. Miller presents us with a pioneering new way to think about parenting our modern youth.

Stickley Sticks to It! A Frog's Guide to Getting Things Done. Brenda S. Miles, illustrated by Steve Mack, $13.95 (ages 4-8)

Stickley the frog has the gift of "stick-to-it-ness." His sticky toes help him stick to windows, ceilings, and surfboards — even under plates! But Stickley's toes aren't the only way he sticks to things. His attitude helps him stick with projects — no matter how frustrating or hard they may be — so he can reach his goals. Read about Stickley and learn how he makes a plan, sticks to it, and gets things done!

Includes a Note to Parents, Caregivers, and Teachers with more information about perseverance and strategies for boosting stick-to-it-ness in kids.

Teaching Kids to Think: Raising Confident, Independent & Thoughtful Children in an Age of Instant Gratification. Darlene Sweetland & Ron Stolberg, $20.99

Today’s kids don’t know how to read a map. They can Google the answer to any question at lightning speed. If a teen forgets his homework, a quick call to mom or dad has it hand-delivered in minutes. Fueled by the rapid pace of technology, the Instant Gratification Generation not only expects immediate solutions to problems — they’re more dependent than ever on adults. Today’s kids are being denied opportunities to make mistakes, and more importantly, to learn from them. They are being taught not to think.

In Teaching Kids to Think, Dr. Darlene Sweetland and Dr. Ron Stolberg offer insight into the social, emotional, and neurological challenges unique to this generation. They identify the five parent traps that cause adults to unknowingly increase their children’s need for instant gratification, and offer practical tips and easy-to-implement solutions to address topics relevant to children of all ages.

A must-read for parents and educators, Teaching Kids to Think will help you understand where this sense of entitlement comes from — and how to turn it around in order to raise children who are confident, independent, and thoughtful.

Too Safe for Their Own Good: How Risk and Responsibility Help Teens Thrive. Michael Ungar, $22.99

Internationally respected social worker and family therapist Michael Ungar tells us why our mania to keep our kids safe is causing us to do the opposite - put them in harm’s way. By continuing to protect them from failure and disappointment, many of our kids are missing out on the “risk-taker’s advantage,” the benefits that come from experiencing manageable amounts of danger. In Too Safe for Their Own Good, Ungar inspires parents to recall their own childhoods and the lessons they learned from being risk-takers and responsibility-seekers, much to the annoyance of their own parents. He offers the support parents need in setting appropriate limits and provides concrete suggestions for allowing children the opportunity to experience the rites of passage that will help them become competent, happy, thriving adults.

In our mania to provide emotional life jackets around our kids, helmets and seatbelts, approved playground equipment, after-school supervision, an endless stream of evening programming, and no place to hang out but the tiled flooring of our local mall, we parents are accidentally creating a generation of youth who are not ready for life. Our children are too safe for their own good.

—From Too Safe for Their Own Good

toughLove: Raising Confident, Kind, Resilient Kids. Edited by Lisa Stiepock, $22.00

From toughLOVE, a unique online community: balanced, practical advice for parents of school-age children from child psychology experts on how to handle everything from picky eating to media consumption to the homework wars. Combining a high level of nurture with an emphasis on boundaries and structure, toughLOVE shows parents how to help their kids become capable, responsible, and productive from the first day of kindergarten through the first day of college... and beyond.

200 Ways to Raise a Boy’s Emotional Intelligence. Will Glennon, $24.95

A nationally recognized parenting expert and spokesperson for fathers, Glennon presents straightforward and well-researched-ways both to nurture young men and, in turn, to teach them how to be nurturing.

200 Ways to Raise a Girl’s Self-Esteem. Will Glennon $24.95

200 WAYS TO RAISE A GIRL'S SELF-ESTEEM provides straightforward advice and helpful guidelines for parents and teachers who want to help girls build positive self-images and develop full, exuberant lives.

UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World. Michelle Borba, $34.00

Why is a lack of empathy — which goes hand-in-hand with the self-absorption epidemic Dr. Michele Borba calls the Selfie Syndrome — so dangerous? First, it hurts kids’ academic performance, and leads to bullying behaviors. Also, it correlates with more cheating, and less resilience. And once children grow up, a lack of empathy hampers their ability to collaborate, innovate, and problem-solve — all must-have skills for the global economy. In UnSelfie, Dr. Borba pinpoints the forces causing the empathy crisis and shares a revolutionary, researched-based, 9-step plan for reversing it.

The good news? Empathy is a trait that can be taught and nurtured. Dr. Borba offers a framework for parenting that yields the results we all want: successful, happy kids who also are kind, moral, courageous, and resilient. UnSelfie is a blueprint for parents and educators who want to kids shift their focus from I, me, and mine... to we, us, and ours.

Yoga for Children: 200+ Yoga Poses, Breathing Exercises, and Meditations for Healthier, Happier, More Resilient Children. Lisa Flynn, $24.95

YOGA FOR CHILDREN will encourage your child to learn about yoga with an attentive, at-home instructor — you! Even if you are new to the practice, author, mom, and children's yoga expert Lisa Flynn will guide you and your child through more than 200 yoga poses, meditations, and activities that are suitable for children between the ages of two and twelve. Complete with full-color photographs, instructional scripts, and pose modifications, YOGA FOR CHILDREN will help build your child's confidence, self-awareness, and focus while strengthening your connection, one yoga session at a time.

You're Just Right. Victor Lethbridge, illustrated by Ben Crane, $15.00 (ages 3-6)

Written with tenderness and great compassion, You're Just Right affirms the beauty and dignity that comes with unconditional love.