What Parents Should Read for Back To School 2021
With kids headed back to school, it’s the perfect time for parents to catch up on their reading. At Copper, we love a growth mindset and are always looking for the next great read that will challenge us, teach us something new, and help us grow.
With that in mind, we gathered a few books to help parents transition into the fall season with newfound knowledge on how to parent well. We hope these books leave you feeling informed and ready to take on the school year.
1. “Stressed Out! For Parents: How to Be Calm, Confident & Focused” by Ben Bernstein
Learn how to remain calm and confident in everything that parenting brings with advice from performance coach Dr. Ben Bernstein. He applies the same advice he uses to coach CEOs, professional athletes, and musicians but this time it’s tailored for parents. Bernstein offers nine strategies for navigating stressful situations for optimal results.
2. “You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life” by Jen Sincero
Although this is not a parenting book, it is the perfect read for anyone looking to find confidence in their personal and professional life. Author and success coach Jen Sincero shares stories, easy exercises, and strategies for identifying and disrupting self-sabotaging thoughts and behaviors that are limiting you from getting where you want to be. This book will empower you to create the life you love, which as a parent is the best mindset to cultivate.
3. “Confident Parents, Confident Kids: Raising Emotional Intelligence in Ourselves and Our Kids — from Toddlers to Teenagers” by Jennifer S. Miller, M.ED.
Confidence stems from the ability to manage and master our emotions, aka emotional intelligence. In her book “Confident Parents, Confident Kids,” author and educator Jennifer Miller offers advice on how to raise confident and happy kids while feeling the same as a parent. The book includes strategies for navigating big emotions, identifying different temperaments, learning how to support and not fight them, and modeling emotional intelligence for your children.
4. “When the World Feels Like a Scary Place: Essential Conversations for Anxious Parents and Worried Kids” by Dr. Abigail Gewirtz
The importance of communication in building healthy relationships cannot be understated. Dr. Abigail Gewirtz expounds up this simple but vital truth in her book, “When the World Feels Like a Scary Place.” She shares how parents can use the tool of conversation and open dialogue to help children work through worry, stress, anxiety, and other hard emotions. The book includes age-appropriate conversation scripts with actual dialogue, talking points, prompts, and insightful asides focused on different issues connected to problems in the world.
5. “Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids” by Hunter Clarke-Fields, MSAE
“Raising Good Humans” is all about raising kind and compassionate children who will help make the world a more kind and compassionate place. Author Hunter Clarke-Fields offers practical advice on how to move from “reactive parenting” to “responsive parenting” where you learn to respond to your kids in skillful ways. You will examine your own unhelpful patterns of communication and reactions that you learned from your parents as you are guided on how to cultivate respectful communication, effective conflict resolution, and reflective listening.
What is one book that has helped you learn about emotional intelligence and deal with stress in parenting? Share them with us @meetcopper so we can continue to share them with our Copper Community.
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