Parenting
Alpha Mom Parenting Book Club: Rare Bird
Review and book group discussion questions for Rare Bird: A Memoir of Loss and Love by Anna Whitson-Donaldson.
Parenting
Alpha Mom Book Club: The Blessing of a Skinned Knee
We’re discussing Wendy Mogel’s “The Blessing of a Skinned Knee” parenting book in our monthly book club. Have you read it yet?
Big Kid
Alpha Mom Book Club: Brainstorm
We review and discuss Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain by Daniel J. Siegel. Book club questions included.
Products & Services
Alpha Mom Book Club: David and Goliath
Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants,” touches on lots of parenting issues. Let’s discuss it together!
Products & Services
Alpha Mom Book Club: All Joy and No Fun
We discuss the NY Times Bestselling parenting book, “All Joy and No Fun: the Paradox of Modern Motherhood.” Join us!
Parenting
Alpha Mom Book Club: Someone Could Get Hurt
We discuss humorist Drew Magary’s parenting memoir, Someone Could Get Hurt.
Baby
Alpha Mom Book Club: The Whole-Brain Child Book Review & Discussion
We’re discussing The Whole-Brain Child for our parenting book club this month. It’s an engaging and informative read on how the brain develops and offers practical solutions for the most typical misbehaving issues, while explaining what is most likely going on in their brains that’s causing them to “lose their mind.”
Resources
Vote on Our June Alpha Mom Parenting Book Club Pick
Vote between “Daring Greatly,” “The Whole-Brain Child” and “Sticks and Stones” for our next Alpha Mom parenting book selection.
Baby
Alpha Mom Book Club: Minimalist Parenting
I like to do less and wouldn’t we all like to enjoy our lives more? But what exactly do the authors mean by minimalist parenting, was a question that I wondered. Do they advocate living like Tibetan monks? Eschewing possessions and leaving our children to play with sticks? Does it mean letting your kids run wild with minimal parental interference? Is it hands off parenting?
Turns out it was none of those things.
Resources
April’s Parenting Book Club Pick: Minimalist Parenting
We’re making a special exception this month and have chosen Minimalist Parenting as our next parenting book club choice.
Young Child
Alpha Mom Parenting Book Club: Kids Are Worth It! Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline
The way to get your kids to behave is to give them the gift of self discipline. But exactly how do you do that? That is what author Barbara Coloroso outlines in her book, Kids Are Worth It!
Products & Services
Vote for our March Parenting Book Club Pick
It is time to choose our next book for our book club. I am so excited. Every single one of these books touches on a parenting issue near and dear to my heart.
Baby
Alpha Mom Parenting Book Club: Far From the Tree
You know the old adage, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree? Well, sometimes it does. Andrew Solomon explores in his new book what happens in families when the apple doesn’t just fall from the tree, it rolls far, far away.
Baby
Vote For Our February Parenting Book Club Pick
It’s time to vote for our February parenting book club selection. I hope a lot of you made it your New Year resolution to read more and will be joining us.
Baby
Alpha Mom Book Club: NurtureShock… A New Way to Think About Children, or Not?
We discuss the science of parenting book, NurtureShock, which promises to turn all of our long held assumptions about parenting on their head.
Toddler
Alpha Mom Book Club: How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Having said that, there is no magic formula for parenting kids (wouldn’t THAT be nice!), but I think that this book has helped me realize some areas where I can improve, especially when it comes to the way that I communicate with my children. I feel like this book gave me ideas to make things better. It is easy to get “stuck” in one way of doing something and not be able to see your way out of it, even when you know it isn’t the best way. How many of us have had the horrified realization of hearing our own parents’ voices coming out of our mouths?
Young Child
Alpha Mom Parenting Book Club: The Five Love Languages Of Children
When I read “The Five Love Languages of Children” years ago it truly revolutionized the way I parented my children. I remember there were several moments while reading when a light bulb would go off and I wanted to smack myself on the forehead for missing what seemed, in retrospect, so obvious. Rereading the book this time I was struck by how much I had forgotten.
Baby
The Alpha Mom Parenting Book Club
Want to read some new books about parenting and then discuss them with other parents? We are going to do just that!