29 Best Parenting Books
Parenting is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Parenting audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Parenting audiobooks below.
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Dial Up the Dream
- By: Colleen O’Grady
- Narrator: Colleen O'Grady
- Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Page Two Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 03, 2022
- Language: English
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5(2 ratings)
5(2 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThis polished, inviting parenting guide illuminates the relationship between mothers and teen daughters.”–Publishers Weekly Your daughter is growing up, but you don’t have to grow apart. Picking up where her national bestseller,This polished, inviting parenting guide illuminates the relationship between mothers and teen daughters.”–Publishers Weekly
Your daughter is growing up, but you don’t have to grow apart.
Picking up where her national bestseller, Dial Down the Drama, left off, Colleen O’Grady’s Dial Up the Dream supports you in navigating your daughter’s last days at home and her transition to adulthood. This emerging-adult stage can be even more stressful on both mother and daughter than the teen years, because the stakes are higher and the changes to the relationship more profound.
This essential guidebook will validate what you are feeling and experiencing with your daughter right now as well as give you a road map for what’s coming. Dial Up the Dream will prepare moms for the three phases they will go through during the late teens and early twenties. The first goal is to preserve the relationship during senior year and not get preoccupied with the future, i.e. falling into the “college trap”. The second phase is when your daughter leaves home, whether it’s to live with roommates, travel, enter the workforce, try entrepreneurship, or go to college. As she gains her independence, you’re losing a job that’s defined you for nearly two decades. While she gets ceremonies and congratulations, there’s no accompanying ritual or even acknowledgment for the changes in your life. The third phase is letting go, which can trigger a “mom crisis.” O’Grady helps you get unstuck, make sense of your own story, reconnect with yourself and dial up your dream. The paradox is that when you dial up your own dream…you stay close to your daughter.
In this book, you’ll learn:
* Exactly what’s going on with your daughter emotionally and physiologically. And how to use this science-based knowledge to set realistic expectations
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* How to think about and navigate the many complex feelings in this journey for both you and your daughter
* The most common emotional traps we moms get caught in during these years and how to avoid them altogether
* Why it’s imperative to change your parenting role from monitor to trusted consultant–and how to do that* How to use this new phase in your daughter’s life to dial up your own dreams–and why doing so is imperative to your daughter’s development and to a having a vibrant, meaningful, lifelong mother-daughter relationship. -
Uncommon Voyage
- By: Laura Shapiro Kramer
- Narrator: Laura Shapiro Kramer
- Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDIn 1984, when he was ten months old, Laura’s son Seth was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Suddenly the direction of Laura’s life changed. She embarked on a journey to improve the quality of Seth’s life, plunging into a world thatIn 1984, when he was ten months old, Laura’s son Seth was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Suddenly the direction of Laura’s life changed. She embarked on a journey to improve the quality of Seth’s life, plunging into a world that lacked today’s information-rich internet to get everything she could for Seth–at first within the mainstream and later in a wider world that came to include osteopathy, Feldenkrais, Iyengar yoga, and more.
In 1992 Laura wrote an article for Family Circle magazine, “A Second Chance for Seth,” detailing the maverick work she was doing with her son. This led to an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Subsequently, Laura wrote the first edition of Uncommon Voyage: Parenting Children with Special Needs, about her experiences as Seth’s mother.
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Parenting
- By: Andy Stanley
- Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: January 17, 2023
- Language: English
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4.92(22 ratings)
4.92(22 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDRead by the authors. Am I getting parenting right? Most parents, at any and every stage, find themselves asking this question. Whether you’re sleep deprived with a colicky newborn or navigating the emotional roller coaster of a teenager,Read by the authors.
Am I getting parenting right? Most parents, at any and every stage, find themselves asking this question.
Whether you’re sleep deprived with a colicky newborn or navigating the emotional roller coaster of a teenager, parenting has its ups and downs, its confusion and clarity, its big blowups and small victories. And no matter our family makeup or our children’s personalities, many of us experience anxiety over our children’s futures and often fear making a mistake.
Andy and Sandra Stanley are no strangers to this feeling. As parents of three grown children and cofounders of North Point Ministries, they are seasoned experts on faith and parenting. Together they have spent decades counseling countless families, mentoring others, and learning from mentors of their own, all while leading one of the largest churches in the country.
In Parenting: Getting It Right, Andy and Sandra combine their experience and wisdom into a guide that helps readers understand and live by essential parenting principles. In an inviting, conversational approach that is both informative and accessible, the Stanleys help readers understand the most important goal in parenting and learn the steps to pursue it by:
- Learning the four distinct stages of parenting
- Clarifying the primary goal of parenting and developing a parenting orientation around that goal
- Identifying and adapting their approach–not their rules–to their children’s distinct personalities
- Deciding on their shortlist of non-negotiables and learning to stick to it
 
You don’t have to constantly doubt if you’re getting it right as a parent. Start here and feel confident about raising a healthy and happy family.
 
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Fuck, Now There Are Two of You
- By: Adam Mansbach
- Narrator: Larry David
- Length: 5 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.85(12 ratings)
4.85(12 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0012.99 USDAdam Mansbach famously gave voice to two of parenting’s primal struggles in Go the Fuck to Sleep and You Have to Fucking Eat–the often-imitated, never-duplicated pair of New York Times bestsellers that ushered in a new era of radicalAdam Mansbach famously gave voice to two of parenting’s primal struggles in Go the Fuck to Sleep and You Have to Fucking Eat–the often-imitated, never-duplicated pair of New York Times bestsellers that ushered in a new era of radical honesty in humor books for parents. But what could possibly be left? Parents–new, old, expectant, and grand–of multiple children already knew the answer. Author Adam Mansbach discovered it for himself by having two more kids, less than two years apart. Fuck, Now There Are Two of You is a loving monologue about that new addition to the family, addressed to a big sibling and shot through with Adam’s trademark profane truth-telling. Chock-full of unspoken sentiments channeled directly from the brains of parents worldwide, Fuck, Now There Are Two of You articulates all the fears and frustrations attendant to the simple, math-defying fact that two is a million more kids than one. As you probably know by now, you shouldn’t read it to a child.
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The 20-Month Legend
- By: Steve Tate
- Narrator: Steve Tate
- Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 07, 2019
- Language: English
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4.8(88 ratings)
4.8(88 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDAs if juggling a life with half-a-dozen kids, including triplets, isn’t enough, Steve Tate receives the life-altering news that one of his triplets, Hayes, has been diagnosed with brain cancer. The once-star collegiate football player findsAs if juggling a life with half-a-dozen kids, including triplets, isn’t enough, Steve Tate receives the life-altering news that one of his triplets, Hayes, has been diagnosed with brain cancer. The once-star collegiate football player finds himself fighting for his son’s life. This memoir takes you through the various challenges he faced raising a family of six kids and balancing a career, all while his son battled to defeat the odds of survival. Both Steve and his high-school sweetheart, Savanna, found hope and happiness through the example of their twenty-month-old son Hayes.
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Jesus Calling for Moms, with Full Scriptures
- By: Sarah Young
- Narrator: Sarah Young
- Length: 1 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: March 29, 2022
- Language: English
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4.75(4 ratings)
4.75(4 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USDGive the moms in your life a beautiful gift of encouragement, reassurance, and peace amidst uncertainty. Jesus Calling for Moms features 50 relevant devotions from Sarah Young’s New York Times bestseller Jesus Calling(r), to celebrate mothersGive the moms in your life a beautiful gift of encouragement, reassurance, and peace amidst uncertainty. Jesus Calling for Moms features 50 relevant devotions from Sarah Young’s New York Times bestseller Jesus Calling(r), to celebrate mothers and their love, comfort, and strength offering timely, biblical truth.
With 50 selections, you’ll find devotions that speak to:
- the power of love
- the gift of strength
- courage in any season
- trusting Him during challenging times
- God’s guidance and comfort
- joyous reasons to celebrate mothers and motherhood
This beautiful compilation of devotions from Sarah’s bestselling brand also includes:
- a new introduction and prayer for moms by Sarah
- journaling prompts and questions to encourage deeper growth
- complete Bible verses
Whether a gift for your own mom or for a mom who means so much to you, this is ideal for Mother’s Day, birthdays, Valentine’s Day, and more. Jesus Calling for Moms will be a cherished favorite for years to come.
Look for additional life-changing, life-giving books from Sarah Young including:
- Jesus Listens
- Jesus Always
- Jesus Today
- Jesus Calling
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Uniquely Human: Updated and Expanded
- By: Barry M. Prizant
- Narrator: Barry M. Prizant
- Length: 11 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.69(43 ratings)
4.69(43 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDWinner of the Autism Society of America’s Dr. Temple Grandin Award for the Outstanding Literary Work in Autism A groundbreaking book on autism, by one of the world’s leading experts, who portrays autism as a unique way of beingWinner of the Autism Society of America’s Dr. Temple Grandin Award for the Outstanding Literary Work in Autism
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A groundbreaking book on autism, by one of the world’s leading experts, who portrays autism as a unique way of being human–this is “required reading….Breathtakingly simple and profoundly positive” (Chicago Tribune).
Autism therapy typically focuses on ridding individuals of “autistic” symptoms such as difficulties interacting socially, problems in communicating, sensory challenges, and repetitive behavior patterns. Now Dr. Barry M. Prizant offers a new and compelling paradigm: the most successful approaches to autism don’t aim at fixing a person by eliminating symptoms, but rather seeking to understand the individual’s experience and what underlies the behavior.
“A must-read for anyone touched by autism… Dr. Prizant’s Uniquely Human is a crucial step in promoting better understanding and a more humane approach” (Associated Press). Instead of classifying “autistic” behaviors as signs of pathology, Dr. Prizant sees them as part of a range of strategies to cope with a world that feels chaotic and overwhelming. Rather than curb these behaviors, it’s better to enhance abilities, build on strengths, and offer supports that will lead to more desirable behavior and a better quality of life.
“A remarkable approach to autism….A truly impactful, necessary book” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Uniquely Human offers inspiration and practical advice drawn from Dr. Prizant’s four-decade career. It conveys a deep respect for people with autism and their own unique qualities. Filled with humanity and wisdom, Uniquely Human “should reassure parents and caregivers of kids with autism and any other disability that their kids are not broken, but, indeed, special” (Booklist, starred review). -
Raising Teens
- By: Made for Success
- Narrator: Larry Iverson
- Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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4.67(3 ratings)
4.67(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDRaising a motivated teenager doesn’t have to be a struggle! Empower yourself with the knowledge that will make your child-rearing years a success. Plenty of tools and methods exist that you can use today to make your child’s teen yearsRaising a motivated teenager doesn’t have to be a struggle! Empower yourself with the knowledge that will make your child-rearing years a success. Plenty of tools and methods exist that you can use today to make your child’s teen years happy and successful. These are pivotal years in the life of your child, and you can prepare your teenagers to be productive in school, happy in their relationships, and on their way to a bright future.
Parents have dealt with rebellious teen behavior since time immemorial. In this collection of audio programs, various authors, psychologists, motivators, and parenting experts offer their views and advice on exactly what you can do to make changes in your family relationships. Whether you are interested in helping your teen excel in school or sports, or if you’re like the millions of parents who are challenged with a troubled teen, then help is on the way! Learn specific tips on common topics ranging from teen discipline, texting and cell phone usage, video games, time on the computer, dating, drugs and alcohol, and myriad other distractions today’s teens face each day.
This program provides the tools and knowledge you need to raise a teenager who is happy, motivated, fulfilled, healthy, and skilled.
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Mayo Clinic Guide To Raising A Healthy Child, 1st Edition
- By: Angela C. Mattke
- Length: 21 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 03, 2019
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDMayo Clinic Guide to Raising a Healthy Child offers a trusted guide to parenting your child through the preschool and early school-age years. Inside you’ll find answers to dilemmas such as feeding a picky eater, resolving sleep problems,Mayo Clinic Guide to Raising a Healthy Child offers a trusted guide to parenting
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your child through the preschool and early school-age years. Inside you’ll find answers
to dilemmas such as feeding a picky eater, resolving sleep problems, addressing
bullying, treating common injuries and illnesses, and coping with complex health care
needs. You’ll also get expert insights on shaping your child’s behavior in a positive way,
increasing your child’s resilience and cultivating a warm, supportive environment for
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Forever Boy
- By: Kate Swenson
- Narrator: Kate Swenson
- Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Harlequin Audio
- Publish date: April 05, 2022
- Language: English
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4.67(1213 ratings)
4.67(1213 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDNATIONAL BESTSELLER With her popular blog, Finding Cooper’s Voice, Kate Swenson has provided hope and comfort for hundreds of thousands of parents of children with Autism. Now, Kate shares her inspiring story in this powerful memoir aboutNATIONAL BESTSELLER
With her popular blog, Finding Cooper’s Voice, Kate Swenson has provided hope and comfort for hundreds of thousands of parents of children with Autism. Now, Kate shares her inspiring story in this powerful memoir about motherhood and unconditional love
When Kate Swenson’s son Cooper was diagnosed with severe, nonverbal autism, her world stopped. She had always dreamed of having the perfect family life. She hadn’t signed up for life as a mother raising a child with a disability.
At first, Kate experienced the grief of broken dreams. Then she felt the frustration and exhaustion of having to fight for your child in a world that is stacked against them. But through hard work, resilience and personal growth, she would come to learn that Cooper wasn’t the one who needed to change. She was. And it was this transformation that led Kate to acceptance–and ultimately joy. In Forever Boy, Kate shares her inspiring journey with honesty and compassion, offering solace and hope to others on this path and illuminating the strength and perseverance of mothers.
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Habits of the Household
- By: Justin Whitmel Earley
- Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: November 09, 2021
- Language: English
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4.65(1990 ratings)
4.65(1990 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDRead by the author. Discover simple habits and easy-to-implement daily rhythms that will help you find meaning beyond the chaos of family life as you create a home where kids and parents alike practice how to love God and each other. You long forRead by the author.
Discover simple habits and easy-to-implement daily rhythms that will help you find meaning beyond the chaos of family life as you create a home where kids and parents alike practice how to love God and each other.
You long for tender moments with your children–but do you ever find yourself too busy to stop, make eye contact, and say something you really mean? Daily habits are powerful ways to shape the heart–but do you find yourself giving in to screen time just to get through the day? You want to parent with purpose–but do you know how to start?
Award-winning author and father of four Justin Whitmel Earley understands the tension between how you long to parent and what your daily life actually looks like. In Habits of the Household, Earley gives you the tools you need to create structure–from mealtimes to bedtimes–that free you to parent toddlers, kids, and teens with purpose. Learn how to:
- Develop a bedtime liturgy to settle your little ones and ground them in God’s love
- Discover a new framework for discipline as discipleship
- Acquire simple practices for more regular and meaningful family mealtimes
- Open your eyes to the spirituality of parenting, seeing small moments as big opportunities for spiritual formation
- Develop a custom age chart for your family to more intentionally plan your shared years under the same roof
Each chapter in Habits of the Household ends with practical patterns, prayers, or liturgies that your family can put into practice right away. As you create liberating rhythms around your everyday routines, you will find your family has a greater sense of peace and purpose as your home becomes a place where, above all, you learn how to love.
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Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Children
- By: Jodie Berndt
- Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: November 16, 2021
- Language: English
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4.63(176 ratings)
4.63(176 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDAs parents of adult children, we often worry about whether our children will make good choices when they’re on their own.¬†Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Children¬†provides you with¬†biblically based prayers and encouragingAs parents of adult children, we often worry about whether our children will make good choices when they’re on their own.¬†Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Children¬†provides you with¬†biblically based prayers and encouraging stories to guide you as you pray for your adult children through anything they face.¬†¬†
Parent and author Jodie Berndt understands what it’s like to release children into the world and still care deeply about them and everything they’re up against in life. In¬†Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Children,¬†Jodie shares prayers designed with your adult children in mind, whether they’re just leaving the nest, flying well on their own, or struggling to take off at all.
Jodie shares advice on navigating all aspects of adulthood with encouraging stories from experienced parents who are praying their children through real-life issues like leaving the church, struggling with health concerns, navigating broken marriages, fighting addiction, dealing with financial problems, and more.
In Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Children, Jodie addresses some of the most difficult questions that confront parents:
- How can I support my children when they make decisions I disagree with?
- Is it too late to start praying for my children?
- What does the Bible teach us about praying for our children?
With the grace and wisdom of someone who’s been there, Jodie shares the tools and encouragement you need to find the¬†strength to keep praying, even as you doubt yourself and grieve over your children’s choices.
Whatever you’re praying for,¬†Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Children¬†will help you find confidence and peace taken straight from Scripture, guiding you to the bedrock of God’s promises as you release your children to God’s shepherding care.
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The Sudden Loss Survival Guide
- By: Chelsea Hanson
- Narrator: Charon Normand-Widmer
- Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 19, 2020
- Language: English
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4.62(43 ratings)
4.62(43 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDHealing after loss When a loved one passes unexpectedly, the person left behind can lose their bearings. After the sudden loss of her mother, Chelsea Hanson, a nationally recognized grief educator and founder of With Sympathy Gifts and Keepsakes,Healing after loss
When a loved one passes unexpectedly, the person left behind can lose their bearings. After the sudden loss of her mother, Chelsea Hanson, a nationally recognized grief educator and founder of With Sympathy Gifts and Keepsakes, didn’t know where to turn for help, what to do next, or how to put the pieces of her life back together. Hanson’s The Sudden Loss Survival Guide gathers everything that she learned during her own recovery process and provides an indispensable road map to aid those who’ve experienced a life-changing loss.A proactive, intentional approach
While you cannot control losing a loved one, you can consciously guide your own recovery. Through the application of simple, proactive practices, The Sudden Loss Survival Guide will empower you to overcome the darkness and anxiety of grief.Action-based tools
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This guide includes heart-lifting prompts and action steps that guide you towards re-engaging in life and discovering deeper meaning. Through Hanson’s grief healing practices, this book delivers the essential answers and tools needed to survive, cope, and heal from the devastating impact of sudden loss. -
I Can’t Believe You Just Said That!
- By: Ginger Hubbard
- Narrator: Ginger Hubbard
- Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: May 15, 2018
- Language: English
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4.59(288 ratings)
4.59(288 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDSet aside ineffective practices, such as scolding, ignoring the offense, or merely administering punishment. Ginger Hubbard, the bestselling author of Don’t Make Me Count to Three!, lays out a simple, Bible-based strategy for parents to helpSet aside ineffective practices, such as
- scolding,
- ignoring the offense, or
- merely administering punishment.
Ginger Hubbard, the bestselling author of Don’t Make Me Count to Three!, lays out a simple, Bible-based strategy for parents to help their kids tame their tongues and walk in the transforming power of Christ.
Are you ever embarrassed or shocked by what comes out of your child’s mouth? Do you raise your voice, threaten, and coerce, but find yourself frustrated because nothing seems to work? In I Can’t Believe You Just Said That!, Ginger Hubbard provides a practical, three-step plan to reach beyond the behaviors of tongue-related struggles–such as lying, tattling, and whining–to address your child’s heart. After all, as Matthew 12:34 tells us, “the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.”
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Busy Toddler’s Guide to Actual Parenting
- By: Susie Allison
- Narrator: Susie Allison
- Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.59(1209 ratings)
4.59(1209 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDYou don’t need to feel alone in parenting. You don’t need to feel like you’re failing. And you definitely don’t need another parenting book filled with theoretical advice about theoretical children. You need actual parentingYou don’t need to feel alone in parenting. You don’t need to feel like you’re failing. And you definitely don’t need another parenting book filled with theoretical advice about theoretical children. You need actual parenting help from an actual parent. It’s time to feel confident in your parenting.
Susie Allison, creator of the massive online community Busy Toddler, is a breath of fresh air. With her humor and engaging personality, she helps parents find their footing, shift their perspective on childhood, and laugh at the twists and turns of parenting we all face. (Yes, it’s OK that your child licked a shopping cart – they pretty much all do that.)
In Busy Toddler’s Guide to Actual Parenting, Susie gives the achievable advice she’s known for around the world, from daily life and #beingtwoisfine to tantrums and tattling and teaching the ABCs. The book also includes 50+ of her famous activities that have helped thousands of parents make it to nap time-FYI, the pop-sickle bath is a game-changer.Susie shares real moments raising her three kids as well as her professional knowledge from eight years as a kindergarten and 1st grade teacher. Her simple and doable approach to parenting will leave you feeling so much better!
Let Susie give you the actual parenting advice you need.
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Almost Holy Mama
- By: Courtney Ellis
- Narrator: Courtney Ellis
- Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: June 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.58(139 ratings)
4.58(139 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWith the honesty of a close friend, the hilarity of a late-night comic, and the humility of a mom up to her eyeballs in diapers and dishes, Courtney Ellis invites us on a journey to draw closer to God amidst the joyful, mundane, exhausting days ofWith the honesty of a close friend, the hilarity of a late-night comic, and the humility of a mom up to her eyeballs in diapers and dishes, Courtney Ellis invites us on a journey to draw closer to God amidst the joyful, mundane, exhausting days of young parenthood. Probing ancient Christian practices for renewal, Almost Holy Mama chronicles one mom’s quest to discover an answer to her most pressing question: Can God use the crucible of parenthood to grow us in virtue? Instead of adding more tasks, Almost Holy Mama will help you integrate your spiritual practices into your daily life. From studying Scripture in the shower to listening in prayer at the foot of Laundry Mountain to being forced into the discipline of stillness by a rough pregnancy, Ellis finds that meeting God in sacred disciplines can breathe new life into one of life s most joy-filled and trying seasons.
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The Spare Room
- By: Emily Chang
- Narrator: Cindy Kay
- Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: March 30, 2021
- Language: English
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4.57(22 ratings)
4.57(22 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDEmily Chang is a seasoned executive who has worked with some of the world’s most renowned companies like Procter & Gamble, Apple, and Starbucks. Over the last twenty-one years, her job has brought her and her family to eight differentEmily Chang is a seasoned executive who has worked with some of the world’s most renowned companies like Procter & Gamble, Apple, and Starbucks. Over the last twenty-one years, her job has brought her and her family to eight different homes across the U.S and China. And everywhere she’s lived, Emily has found herself at the unique intersection of her Offer and Offense. Life has served up young people who have been abused, neglected, or marginalized, to find sanctuary in her spare room. Among her deeply personal accounts, Emily shares heart-wrenching stories of an emotionally abused child bride, a dying eighteen-month-old boy born with hydrocephalus, and the abused daughter of a local prostitute. With the sixteen young people she and her family have cared for, Emily has found that living into her Social Legacy has not only deeply enriched her home life, it has also enabled her to become a more authentic and relatable leader in the workplace. Each time she opened the door to her spare room, Emily found herself in a front-row seat, witnessing one of life’s incredible stories unfold. Integrating work and life, she introduced her spare room kids to colleagues and encourages her team members to invest in their own Social Legacies. Now more than ever, social purpose has become an urgent leadership imperative. The Spare Room will help you identify your Social Legacy to live a more intentional life and lead with authentic purpose.
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A Is for Advice (The Reassuring Kind)
- By: Ilana Stanger-Ross
- Narrator: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 1 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 26, 2019
- Language: English
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4.55(95 ratings)
4.55(95 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USDPractical, reassuring, and beautifully written, A is for Advice provides a brief and compelling reflection on pregnancy, birth, and the early postpartum period for expectant mothers of all kinds–whether you prefer a water birth at home or aPractical, reassuring, and beautifully written, A is for Advice provides a brief and compelling reflection on pregnancy, birth, and the early postpartum period for expectant mothers of all kinds–whether you prefer a water birth at home or a scheduled C-section in a hospital, whether you believe in painkillers or an all-natural labor, breast milk or formula, this book speaks to you and your pregancy. Written in the approachable and friendly tone of a best-friend blogger but informed by the insight of a Registered Midwife, A is for Advice seeks to comfort and inspire, providing realistic and soothing advice at a time when most women desperately seek out information.
Through 26 lesson/letters of the alphabet (C is for Control; F is for Fear; W is for Water), A is for Advice offers practical and emotional insights into the often overwhelming transition to motherhood. Using a combination of humor, story-telling, research distillation, and personal reflection, A is for Advice speaks to concerns common to all women as they approach birth and motherhood. Eschewing the “birth wars” for a women-centered, feminist perspective, A is for Advice does not argue for any one type of birth experience, but rather empowers each woman to be her own advocate. If the book could be summed up in one line it would be, simply, “be gentle with yourself.” Read it cover-to-cover or in the short bursts available to an expecting mom (each letter stands alone), this book offers a compelling call for well-informed, judgment-free, and forgiving birthing and mothering and is the ultimate babyshower gift for your best friend, sister, or daughter.
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Mother to Son
- By: Jasmine L. Holmes
- Narrator: Robin Eller
- Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.54(950 ratings)
4.54(950 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USD“Wynn is my son. No little boy could be more loved by his parents. Inquisitive, fiercely affectionate, staunchly opinionated, he sees the world through eyes of wonder and has yet to become jaded by society’s cruelty. I know he’ll“Wynn is my son. No little boy could be more loved by his parents. Inquisitive, fiercely affectionate, staunchly opinionated, he sees the world through eyes of wonder and has yet to become jaded by society’s cruelty. I know he’ll grow up with stories of having been made to feel ‘other’ because of the color of his skin. I want to teach him that, though life’s unfair, he still has incomparable value in the eyes of his heavenly Father. I know this wondrous little person has the potential to change the world–and I want him to know it too.”
In Mother to Son, Jasmine Holmes shares a series of powerful letters to her young son. These are about her journey as an African American Christian, and what she wants her son to know as he grows and approaches the world as a black man. Holmes deals head-on with issues ranging from discipleship and marriage to biblical justice. She invites us to read over her shoulder as she reminds Wynn that his identity is firmly planted in the person and work of Jesus Christ, even when the topic is one as emotionally charged as race in America.
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The Mayo Clinic Guide to Your Baby’s First Years, 2nd Edition
- By: Walter Cook
- Length: 24 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 11, 2020
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0034.99 USDA complete guide with practical information and support for parents of children from newborn to three years old, by childcare experts at the renowned Mayo Clinic. Written by doctors who are also parents. Updated and Revised 2nd edition. MayoA complete guide with practical information and support for parents of children from newborn to three years old, by childcare experts at the renowned Mayo Clinic. Written by doctors who are also parents.
Updated and Revised 2nd edition.
Mayo Clinic Guide to Your Baby’s First Years is a trusted and essential resource for new and experienced parents alike. In this fully reviewed and updated second edition, you’ll find practical guidance on caring for the new little one in your family, from birth to age 3. Inside you’ll find evidence-based advice on giving your baby the best nutrition and introducing your toddler to solids, tips for forming healthy sleep habits, strategies for dealing with fussiness and tantrums, advice on establishing a secure bond with your child, monthly updates on your child’s growth and development, and much more.
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Faith That Lasts
- By: Cameron McAllister
- Narrator: Cameron McAllister
- Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Two Words Publishing
- Publish date: January 26, 2021
- Language: English
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4.53(16 ratings)
4.53(16 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDPlease fix my kid. In their work as Christian apologists, father and son Stuart and Cameron McAllister have heard many variations on this theme from concerned parents. It’s a sentiment many Christian parents can relate to-a deep and fearfulPlease fix my kid. In their work as Christian apologists, father and son Stuart and Cameron McAllister have heard many variations on this theme from concerned parents. It’s a sentiment many Christian parents can relate to-a deep and fearful sense of their own inadequacy to raise their children in the faith amid a seductive culture that’s often hostile to Christianity. In Faith that Lasts, the McAllisters reflect on their own experiences of coming to Christian faith-Stuart from a life of crime on the streets of Glasgow, and Cameron in the context of a loving Christian home. Together, they outline three dangerous myths that we all too easily buy into: that fear can protect our children, that information can save them, and that their spiritual education belongs to the experts. They reconsider each myth in the light of Christianity and their own experiences and reveal that, when our confidence is rooted in the good news of Jesus, our homes can be places of honest conversation, open-handed exploration, and lasting faith.
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Live Love Now
- By: Rachel Macy Stafford
- Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: April 28, 2020
- Language: English
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4.52(441 ratings)
4.52(441 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDIn Live Love Now, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Macy Stafford tackles the biggest challenges facing kids today and equips adults to engage them with humanness and heart, compassion and honesty to discover the deep, life-givingIn Live Love Now, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Macy Stafford tackles the biggest challenges facing kids today and equips adults to engage them with humanness and heart, compassion and honesty to discover the deep, life-giving connection everyone is longing for. 
What do young people need now more than ever? Adults who are Truth-tellers not taskmasters. Encouragers not enforcers. Guides not half-listeners. The good news is, it’s not too late! No matter what’s happened in the past, you can help the kids you love face the top stressors of today, including academic pressure, parental expectations, technoference, lack of purpose, isolation, and loneliness.
With illuminating, straightforward strategies, this guide reveals the importance of practicing acceptance, pursuing peace, and exploring wellness and purpose for yourself so you can be the kind of real, relevant, and lifelong role model young people are searching for. Engaging and thoughtful, each chapter includes moving stories from Rachel’s personal journey as a mom of a teen and pre-teen along with illustrative narratives and prompts to help you reflect and take steps toward becoming the kind of adult young people trust.
Whether you’re a parent, educator, older sibling, coach, or anyone in a role of leading young people, this audiobook will help you meet the goal of raising and guiding young people to become resilient, compassionate, and capable adults.
Reflection questions are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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Beyond Pronouns
- By: Tammy Plunkett
- Narrator: Patricia Rodriguez
- Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.51(31 ratings)
4.51(31 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDIf your child or teen recently told you they are transgender, non-binary, or genderfluid, you’re bound to have questions. You may wonder how best to support your child’s transition and doubt whether you are making the rightIf your child or teen recently told you they are transgender, non-binary, or genderfluid, you’re bound to have questions. You may wonder how best to support your child’s transition and doubt whether you are making the right decisions.
When her son came out as transgender, Tammy Plunkett had the same worries. In Beyond Pronouns, she shares her candid experiences learning to navigate her child’s transition and provides clear and practical guidance to help you do the same. She deals with many frequently asked questions, including: Is this a phase? Why not wait until they’re an adult? How do I tell others my child is gender-diverse? Where do we start a child’s transition?
Offering gentle guidance through the first one hundred days and beyond, Tammy uniquely addresses the need for parents to be supported so they can best care for their child. You will find ways to face common fears, have important conversations with your child, be a good ally, and much more, with age-appropriate approaches that aim for a happy and connected family.
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Impossible Parenting
- By: Olivia Scobie
- Narrator: Christine Kiphart
- Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.5(41 ratings)
4.5(41 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWhy is it that research suggests people who don’t have kids are happier than people who do? Olivia Scobie provides practical solutions for parents who find themselves pushing beyond their capacity to meet impossible standards, and sheWhy is it that research suggests people who don’t have kids are happier than people who do? Olivia Scobie provides practical solutions for parents who find themselves pushing beyond their capacity to meet impossible standards, and she challenges parents to shift their thinking from child-centered to family-centered. By naming today’s unrealistic parenting expectations as impossible from the get-go, Impossible Parenting creates the space to acknowledge harmful expectations for new parents and begins a conversation that focuses on healing and doing the best one can with the resources available.
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He Hears Her Voice
- By: Candy L. Marballi
- Narrator: Candy L. Marballi
- Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 05, 2022
- Language: English
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4.5(2 ratings)
4.5(2 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDDiscover a simple approach to prayer with this useful guide and see how it gives you the power to transform your life. Candy Marballi discovered that declaring the promises of God through prayer led to untold blessings and opportunities. One prayerDiscover a simple approach to prayer with this useful guide and see how it gives you the power to transform your life.
Candy Marballi discovered that declaring the promises of God through prayer led to untold blessings and opportunities. One prayer comprised of ten themes (grace, love, compassion, repentance, worship, commitment, dependence, influence, discipleship, and authority) will refresh your prayer-life. He Hears Her Voice is a prayer strategy that offers proven steps to guide you to a richer relationship with God. Filled with vivid personal stories, meditative scripture, beautiful hymns, and meaningful prayers, this devotional provides a grounding worship experience. He Hears Her Voice will change the way we pray–and equip a generation of women to live boldly in their faith.
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Love Her Well
- By: Kari Kampakis
- Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: August 18, 2020
- Language: English
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4.46(459 ratings)
4.46(459 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDNow an ECPA Best Seller‚ÄîKari Kampakis’s¬†Love Her Well¬†gives moms ten practical tips for how to build strong and lasting relationships with their daughters. For many women, having a baby girl is a dream come true. But as girlsNow an ECPA Best Seller‚ÄîKari Kampakis’s¬†Love Her Well¬†gives moms ten practical tips for how to build strong and lasting relationships with their daughters.
For many women, having a baby girl is a dream come true. But as girls grow up, the narrative of innocence and joy changes to one of dread as moms are told, “Just wait until she’s a teenager!” and handed a disheartening and too-often-true script about a daughter’s teenage season of life.
Author, blogger, and mom to four daughters Kari Kampakis thinks it’s time to change the narrative and mind-set that leads moms to parent teen girls with a spirit of defeat instead of strength. Love Her Well isn’t a guide to help mothers “fix” their daughters or make them behave. It’s about a mom’s journey, doing the heart-work necessary to love a teenager while still being a steady, supportive parent. Kari offers wisdom about how moms can:
- Choose their words and timing carefully.
- Listen and empathize with her teen’s world.
- See the good, and love her for who she is.
- Take care of themselves and find a support system in the process.
By working on the foundation, habits, and dynamics of the relationship; mothers can connect with their teen daughters and earn a voice in their lives that allows moms to offer guidance, love, wisdom, and emotional support.
Kari gives mothers hope, wisdom, and a reminder that all things are possible through God, who is the source of the guidance and clarity they need in order to grow strong relationships with their daughters at every age—especially during the critical teen years.
Reflection questions are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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The Art of Teaching Children
- By: Phillip Done
- Narrator: Phillip Done
- Length: 19 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.45(117 ratings)
4.45(117 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDAn essential guide for teachers and parents that’s destined to become a classic, The Art of Teaching Children is one of those rare and masterful books that not only defines a craft but offers a magical reading experience.After more than thirtyAn essential guide for teachers and parents that’s destined to become a classic, The Art of Teaching Children is one of those rare and masterful books that not only defines a craft but offers a magical reading experience.
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After more than thirty years in the classroom, award-winning teacher Phillip Done decided that it was time to retire. But a teacher’s job is never truly finished, and he set out to write the greatest lesson of his career: a book for educators and parents that would pass along everything he learned about working with kids. From the first-day-of-school jitters to the last day’s tears, Done writes about the teacher’s craft, classrooms and curriculums, the challenges of the profession, and the reason all teachers do it–the children.
Drawing upon decades of experience, Done shares time-tested tips and sage advice: Real learning is messy, not linear. Greeting kids in the morning as they enter the classroom is an important part of the school day. If a student is having trouble, look at what you can do differently before pointing the finger at the child. Ask yourself: Would I want to be a student in my class? When children watch you, they are learning how to be people, and one of the most important things we can do for our students is to model the kind of people we would like them to be. Done tackles topics you won’t find in any other teaching book, including Back to School Night nerves, teacher pride, the Sunday Blues, Pinterest envy, teacher guilt, and the things they never warn you about in “teacher school” but should, like how to survive recess duty, field trips, and lunch supervision. Done also addresses some of the most important issues schools face today: bullying, excessive screen time, the system’s obsession with testing, teacher burnout, and the ever-increasing demands of meeting the diverse learning needs of students.
But The Art of Teaching Children is more than a guide to educating today’s young learners. These pages are alive with inspiration, humor, and tales of humanity. Done welcomes us like visitors at Open House Night to the world of elementary school, where we witness lessons that go well and others that flop, periods that run smoothly and ones that go haywire when a bee flies into the room. We meet master teachers and new ones, librarians and lunch supervisors, principals and parents (some with too much time on their hands). We get to know kids who want to hold a ball and those who’d rather hold a marker, students with difficult home lives and children with disabilities, youngsters who need drawing out and those who happily announce (in the middle of a math lesson) that they have a loose tooth.
With great wit and wisdom, irresistible storytelling, and boundless compassion, The Art of Teaching Children is the new educator’s bible for teachers, parents, and all who work with kids and care about their learning and success. -
Life’s Journeys According to Mister Rogers
- By: Fred Rogers
- Narrator: Lily Tomlin
- Length: 1 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 27, 2005
- Language: English
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4.45(1170 ratings)
4.45(1170 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0010.99 USDAn inspiring collection of thoughts to take with us on the paths we travel in life. For all the roads we choose to travel, and even those we don’t, Fred Rogers has an observation, a story, some insights to share. Whether you’re facingAn inspiring collection of thoughts to take with us on the paths we travel in life.
For all the roads we choose to travel, and even those we don’t, Fred Rogers has an observation, a story, some insights to share. Whether you’re facing graduation, a new job, a new baby, marriage, any change in your life–expected or not–the wisdom that Mister Rogers offers can contribute mightily to the grace with which you handle the change.
With sections titled Who You Are Right Now, Loving and Being Loved, and Guided Drift, Fred addresses the scope of human transitions. It all comes down to knowing we’re valuable, and that we’re worthy of that value. As Fred would say, “You don’t have to be anything more than who you are right now.”
In her foreword, Joanne Rogers shares the Fred she knew. With stories from their life together, the joys as well as the struggles, Joanne shows how Fred looked at life as a journey–with the ups and downs and in-betweens.
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Divorce Care
- By: Steve Grissom
- Narrator: Steve Grissom
- Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: July 26, 2022
- Language: English
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4.45(71 ratings)
4.45(71 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USDThere is joy, strength, and healing available to you in the midst of separation or divorce. Things may look bleak right now. Your world is a mix of shock, anger, hurt, and hopelessness. Many of the people around you don’t understand the depthThere is joy, strength, and healing available to you in the midst of separation or divorce.
Things may look bleak right now. Your world is a mix of shock, anger, hurt, and hopelessness. Many of the people around you don’t understand the depth of your pain or the complexity of the challenges you face. You feel rejected, betrayed, and exhausted. You wonder if the pain will ever end. But recovery from separation and divorce is possible.
In this 365-day devotional, you will meet men and women who have come through the darkness of separation and divorce and who now walk in the bright hope of God’s love and healing. You will be encouraged and inspired by some of today’s most respected and well-known Christian leaders and psychologists, including Kay Arthur, Dr. Tim Clinton, H. Norman Wright, and Dr. Tony Evans. The daily readings and heartfelt prayers in Divorce Care affirm God’s love for you. You’ll discover that the divorce process can be a powerful catalyst for good in your life, transforming deep loss into meaningful growth with God.
“Divorce Care is the finest material . . . it will provide help, hope, and healing for your life and family.” — Dr. Dennis Rainey, President, FamilyLife(tm)
“Divorce Care is a wonderful combination of wise advice and assurances that God still loves you.” — Dr. Tim Clinton, President, American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC)
“This devotional encourages, inspires, and brings hope to healing hearts. Daily you will be reminded that you are loved, cared for, and can face life with a renewed confidence that comes only from God.” — Dr. Linda Mintle, Author of Divorce Proofing Your Marriage and Breaking Free from Anger and Unforgiveness
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