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Self-Control & building character

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Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs

There are hundreds of books that give parents advice on everything from weaning to toilet training, from discipline to nutrition.

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Why Grit Isn’t Everything

Interview with Professor Angela Duckworth

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Hand Me Another Brick: Building Character in Yourself and Others

The brilliant and uplifting new manual that enables you to experience moral vigor and spiritual fulfillment.

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FindCenterBetween stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

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What If the Secret to Success Is Failure?

We all know—on some level, at least—that what kids need more than anything is a little hardship: some challenge, some deprivation that they can overcome, even if just to prove to themselves that they can.

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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs.

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The Strength Switch: How The New Science of Strength-Based Parenting Can Help Your Child and Your Teen to Flourish

This game-changing book shows us the extraordinary results of focusing on our children’s strengths rather than always trying to correct their weaknesses.

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FindCenterLearning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.

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FindCenterHe who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

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FindCenterWhen they go low, we go high.

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