The nonfiction books that have shaped the person I am today and the way I parent.

Learning:

make it stick: The Science of Successful Learning, Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel (amazon)

Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It, Gabriel Wyner (amazon) (corresponding website and app)

Teaching:

Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions about How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom, Daniel T. Willingham (amazon)

Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life, Diane Tavenner (amazon)

Uncovering the Logic of English: A Common Sense Approach to Reading, Spelling, and Literacy, Denise Eide (amazon)

Parenting:

He’s Not Lazy: Empowering Your Son to Believe in Himself, Adam Price PhD (amazon)

The Shut-Down Learner: Helping Your Academically Discouraged Child, Richard Selznick PhD (amazon)

The Pressured Child: Freeing Our Kids from Performance Overdrive and Helping Them Find Success in School and Life, Michael Thompson PhD (amazon)

Kid Confidence: Help Your Child Make Friends, Build Resilience, and develop Real Self-Esteem, Eileen Kennedy-Moore PhD (amazon)

Calmer, Easier, Happier Homework, Noël Janis-Norton (amazon)

How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success, Julie Lythcott-Haims (amazon)

Parenting with Love & Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility, Foster Cline MD and Jim Fay (amazon)

Homeschool:

The Brave Learner, Julie Bogart (amazon)

Just for Fun or Digging a Little Deeper into Other Topics:

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, Steven Pinker (amazon)

French Kids Eat Everything, Karen Le Billon (amazon)