Want to dig deeper into some of the parenting and education topics related to student well-being and engagement we talk about at Challenge Success? Explore these books from Challenge Success co-founders, board members, advisors, colleagues, and former conference speakers.
EDUCATION
- Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids by Denise Pope, Maureen Brown, And Sarah Becket Miles
- Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students by Denise Pope
- Mindset: Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World by Tony Wagner
- The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
- Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era by Tony Wagner And Ted Dintersmith
GENERAL PARENTING
- The Emotional Lives of Teenagers by Lisa Damour
- Congrats, You’re Having a Teen! by Ken Ginsburg
- All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood by Jennifer Senior
- Raising Kids to Thrive by Kenneth R. Ginsburg
- Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids To Thrive in an Uncertain adn Rapidly Changing World by Madeline Levine
- Teach Your Children Well: Why Values and Coping Skills Matter More Than Grades, Trophies, or “Fat Envelopes” by Madeline Levine
- The Parents We Mean to Be by Richard Weissbourd
COMMUNICATION
- I’d Listen To My Parents If They’d Just Shut Up: What To Say And Not Say When Parenting Teens by Anthony Wolf
- Voice Lessons for Parents: What to Say, How to Say it, and When to Listen by Wendy Mogel
STRESS & ANXIETY
- Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous and Independent Children by Lynn Lyons And Reid Wilson
- The Pressured Child: Freeing Our Kids from Performance Overdrive and Helping Them Find Success in School and Life by Michael Thompson
- The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon by David Elkind
RESILIENCE
- Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope and Optimism in Your Child by Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein
- Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Your Child Roots and Wings by Kenneth R. Ginsburg
- The Blessing of a B Minus by Wendy Mogel
- The Blessing of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel
- The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn To Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed by Jessica Lahey
- Homesick and Happy: How Time Away from Parents Can Help a Child Grow by Michael Thompson
COLLEGE
- Where You Go is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania by Frank Bruni
- Excellent Sheep—The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz
GENDER-SPECIFIC
- Under Pressure by Lisa Damour
- Untangled by Lisa Damour
- Masterminds and Wingmen by Rosalind Wiseman
PLAY
- The Power of Play: Learning What Comes Naturally by David Elkind
SPORTS
- Changing the Game: The Parent’s Guide to Raising Happy, High Performing Athletes and Giving Youth Sports Back to the Kids by John O’Sullivan
TECHNOLOGY
- The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
- The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age by Catherine Steiner-Adair
SLEEP
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
- How to Sleep: The New Science-Based Solutions for Sleeping Through the Night by Rafael Pelayo