Teach Your Children Well
Parenting for Authentic Success

Disclosure: I received this book for advance review through Amazon Vine. I was not required to give a good or bad review but was asked to give my honest opinion of the book. I wish that rather than advertising itself as a book about how to "parent for authentic success," this book was a little more o......more

I have a new suggested title for this book: If Your Child Is 96.7% Perfect and You're Sort a Freak, Read This Book for a Few Tips on How to Chill Out, by A Mom Who Did Pretty Much Everything Right (see examples inside). There's some common sense in here, but it's obscured by the fact that the author wr......more

I don't know much about children or psychology; I just really enjoy this author's writing style. Very clear, practical, simply stated. She is furious that the American educational system is putting so much emphasis on test scores, class rankings, Advanced Placement classes, school rankings, and elit......more

Sometimes, by serendipity, you end up reading the right book at just the right time. This was the right book for me, right now. I heard Madeline Levine interviewed last year when this book first came out. Based on the interview, I thought it sounded like an interesting but somewhat impersonal overvi......more