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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BOOKS

When the Parents Change, Everything Changes, by Paul Dix

Paul Dix – Britain’s leading children’s behaviour expert – reveals how to build a culture of calm consistency into your home, starting today.

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Positive Discipline for Teenagers, by Jane Nelsen and Lynn Lott

A Positive Approach To Raising Happy, Healthy and Mature Teenagers. (How to build stronger bridges of communication with their children, break the destructive cycles of guilt and blame that occur in parent-teen power struggles, and work toward greater mutual respect with their adolescents).

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The Conscious Parent, by Shefali Tsabary

Conscious parenting is about becoming mindful of your behaviour and engaging with your child as an individual.
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The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg

It helps you understand why habits are at the core of everything you do, how you can change them, and what impact that will have on your life, your business and society.
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Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the box, by Arbinger Institute

Leadership and Self-Deception shows how the problems that typically prevent superior performance in organizations and cause conflicts in our personal lives are the result of a little-known problem called self-deception.
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The Anatomy of Peace. How to resolve the heart of conflict, by Arbinger Institute

Through an intriguing story, we learn how and why we contribute to the divisions and problems we blame on others and the surprising way that these problems can be solved.
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When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: : Seismic shifts in school behaviour, by Paul Dix

Paul Dix upends the debate on behaviour management in schools and offers effective tips and strategies that serve to end the search for change in children and turn the focus back on the adults.

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01 / ADOLESCENCE

FAVOURITE BOOKS ABOUT ADOLESCENCE

Flourish, by Martin Seligman

A New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being – and How To Achieve Them.
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What Teens Want you to Know (but Won’t Tell You), by Roy Petitfils

This book gives voice to ten things young people want adults to know but won’t tell them. It discusses such issues as your relationship with a teen, acceptance of teen behaviour, teens’ desire to serve, and much more.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, by Sean Covey

Covey provides a simple approach to help teens improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, and appreciate their parents, as well as tackle the new challenges of our time, like cyberbullying and social media.
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Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child, by John Gottman

Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child is a guide to teaching children to understand and regulate their emotional world.
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02 / PERSONALITY TYPES

Where to take the MBTI test?

MBTI provides a foundation and a toolkit, not a set of rules – ultimately, each person is a unique individual who will grow and develop in their own way and will need the support of their family in this journey.
Only 10 minutes to get a “freakishly accurate” description of who you are and why you do things the way you do.
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Favourite books about Personality Types

The Highly Sensitive Person, by Elaine N. Aron

The first book that helps readers to identify their highly sensitive traits and to make the most of it.
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain

Susan Cain argues ( watch her TedTalk ) that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture.
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Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types, by David Keirsey

It’s a well-written and efficient way to understand one of the 20th Century’s leading personality inventories.
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Sixteen Personality Types at work in organisations, by Jenny Rogers

This best-selling book is suitable for individuals seeking to understand their Myers Briggs. It also contains further information on understanding ‘type dynamics.’
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Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type The original book behind the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test, by Isabel Briggs Myers with Peter B. Myers

This book distinguishes four categories of personality styles and shows how these qualities determine the way you perceive the world and come to conclusions about what you’ve seen.
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Average to A+: Realising Strengths in Yourself and Others, by Alex Linley

It speaks to each and every one of us as human beings and invites us to become the best that we are capable of becoming.
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What Each Myers Briggs Type is Like As a Parent, by Kirsten Moodie (personalitygrowth.com)

Everyone has their own unique parenting style, and even the best parent is not perfect. Here is how each type might behave as a parent.
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03 / TECHNOLOGY

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED WEBSITES

Center for Humane Technology

Tristan Harris, former Google Design Ethicist, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Humane Technology, offers these family guidelines with the hope that they will help parents navigate the use of technology at home and in school.
https://www.humanetech.com/digital-wellbeing-covid



Hacking Your Brain’s “Reward System” to Change Habits, Dr Jud Brewer

How often do you feel like it is a struggle to fight your brain to break bad habits and start healthy ones? Here’s a short video that shows you the neuroscience behind why this is the case and how to hack your brain’s reward centers to get it to do the work for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ40hNdZmfQh



FAVOURITE BOOKS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY

Irresistible, by Adam Alter

In this revolutionary book, Adam Alter, a professor of psychology and marketing at NYU, tracks the rise of behavioural addiction and explains why so many of today’s products are irresistible. And explains how we can harness addictive products for the good.
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Willpower, by Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney

Roy Baumeister, one of the world’s most esteemed and influential psychologists, and journalist John Tierney, turn this notion on its head. They show us that willpower is like a muscle that can be strengthened with practice and improved over time.
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iGEN: The smartphone Generation, by Jean M. Twenge

A highly readable and entertaining first look at how today’s members of iGen—the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later—are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation, from the renowned psychologist and author of Generation Me.
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