Parents


The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
About a Boy
Requiem for a Dream
Meet the Parents
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
Love You Forever
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Educated
Big Little Lies (Big Little Lies, #1)
The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
The Well-Trained Mind by Susan Wise BauerDumbing Us Down by John Taylor GattoHow Children Learn by John C. HoltHow to Read a Book by Mortimer J. AdlerA Thomas Jefferson Education by Oliver DeMille
Best Homeschooling Books
320 books — 374 voters

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamilloThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughLizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
Children of Clergy
171 books — 33 voters

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainI'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip. by John DonovanA Door Near Here by Heather QuarlesRules of the Road by Joan BauerFrancesca, Baby by Joan L. Oppenheimer
Alcoholic Parent
200 books — 26 voters
The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtEducated by Tara WestoverMaus I by Art SpiegelmanFun Home by Alison Bechdel
Memoirs About One's Parents
268 books — 51 voters

Parents have this twisted belief that anyone under the age of about twenty simply can’t know what love is, like the age to love is assessed in the same way the law assesses the legal age to drink. They think that the ‘emotional growth’ of a teenager’s mind is too underdeveloped to understand love, to know if it’s ‘real’ or not. That's completely asinine. The truth is that adults love in different ways, not the only way. ...more
J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

Stephen  King
I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
Stephen King, Christine

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The SB reading group is a reading group/book club supporting parents who have gifted children an…more
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Fathers who read fiction A book group for and by fathers who like to read fiction.
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bedtime stories for kids A group for parents to discuss and recommend bedtime stories/story collections for reading to/wi…more
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Victory in Education: Leaders & Learners This is your space to be heard and make an impact. Join teachers, parents, and education leaders…more
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