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    • What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
    • By: Michaeleen Doucleff
    • Narrated by: Michaeleen Doucleff
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,925 ratings
    • In Hunt, Gather, Parent, Doucleff sets out with her three-year-old daughter in tow to learn and practice parenting strategies from families in three of the world’s most venerable communities....

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    • Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
    • By: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
    • Narrated by: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,128 ratings
    • A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress can lead to lifelong health problems and shows us what we can do to break the cycle....

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    • Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity
    • By: Ruth Whippman
    • Narrated by: Ruth Whippman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • With wit, honesty, and a refusal to settle for easy answers, BoyMom charts a new path to give boys a healthier, more expansive, and fulfilling story about their own lives.

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    • By: Warren Farrell PhD, John Gray PhD
    • Narrated by: Warren Farrell PhD, John Gray PhD
    • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 923 ratings
    • What is the boy crisis? It's a crisis of education. For the first time in American history, our sons will have less education than their dads. It's a crisis of mental health. It's a crisis of sexuality. It's a crisis of purpose....

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    • How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids
    • By: Logan Lancing, James Lindsay
    • Narrated by: James Lindsay
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • In this book, The Queering of the American Child, Logan Lancing and James Lindsay explain what Queer Theory is, where it comes from, how it got into schools, and what it's doing to children nationwide.

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    • The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
    • By: Leonard Sax
    • Narrated by: Allan Robertson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,015 ratings
    • Why America's sons are underachieving, and what we can do about it. Something is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere 20 years ago....

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    • Thrown Away Children, Book 6
    • By: Louise Allen
    • Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
    • Series: Thrown Away Children, Book 6
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Louise has trouble on her hands from the first moment that 5-year-old Billy Blackthorn comes to stay. He is one of more than 20 children taken into care from a single family, and erupts into the Allen household with a volatility that is frightening and disturbing in equal measure....

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    • 100 Keys to French Parenting
    • By: Pamela Druckerman
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden
    • Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • In Bringing up Bébé, journalist and mother Pamela Druckerman investigated a society of good sleepers, gourmet eaters, and mostly calm parents. Bébé Day by Day distills the lessons of Bringing up Bébé into an easy-to-listen-to guide for parents and caregivers....

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    • The Sex Trafficking of America's Children
    • By: Alisa Jordheim
    • Narrated by: Alisa Jordheim
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 10-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • The audiobook is a compilation of five true stories of adults (four woman and one man) trafficked as children. Each story is preceded by an overview of the type of trafficking the story addresses and followed up by a statement from the survivors themselves....

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    • How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder than It Needs to Be
    • By: Timothy P. Carney
    • Narrated by: Timothy P. Carney
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • The bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the same two questions: Why is parenting so hard now? And why are the results so bad?

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    • By: Sonia Nazario
    • Narrated by: Catherine Byers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 722 ratings
    • In this true story, journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States....

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    • Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later
    • By: Annette Lareau
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children....

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    • Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population
    • By: Tim Elmore, Andrew McPeak
    • Narrated by: Tim Elmore, Andrew McPeak
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • This generation of students who have grown up in the 21st century are the most social, the most empowered, and also the most anxious youth population in human history. If you are struggling to connect with and lead them, you are not alone....

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    • How Misguided Policies Are Harming Our Young Men
    • By: Christina Hoff Sommers
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 283 ratings
    • After two major waves of feminism and decades of policy reform, women outperform men in nearly every measure of social, academic, and vocational well-being. Christina Hoff Sommers contends that it's time to take a hard look at present-day realities and recognize that boys need help....

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    • By: Neil Postman
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 278 ratings
    • From the vogue for nubile models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, this modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today....

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    • The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
    • By: Alex Kotlowitz
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,712 ratings
    • This New York Public Library selection as one of the 150 most important books of the 20th century is a true-life portrait of growing up in the Chicago projects....

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    • Why So Many Girls Are Anxious, Wired, and Obsessed - and What Parents Can Do
    • By: Leonard Sax
    • Narrated by: Andrew Colford
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • A parenting expert reveals the four biggest threats to girls' psychological growth and explains how parents can help their daughters develop a healthy sense of self....

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    • New Thinking About Children
    • By: Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman
    • Narrated by: Po Bronson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,622 ratings
    • Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman argue that when it comes to children, we've mistaken good intentions for good ideas....

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    • Growing Up Among Worlds
    • By: David C. Pollock, Ruth E. Van Reken, Michael V. Pollock
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • In this third edition of the groundbreaking, global classic, Ruth E. Van Reken and Michael V. Pollock, son of the late original coauthor, David C. Pollock, have significantly updated what is widely recognized as "The TCK Bible"....

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    • Thrown Away Children, Book 7
    • By: Louise Allen
    • Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
    • Series: Thrown Away Children, Book 7
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of the Thrown Away Children series comes another heartbreaking story of life in foster care....

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