Resources

Resources for Better Parenting

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Discussion Group

Parenting, The Biggest Job has a Facebook group where members can connect with fellow parents, the book’s authors Laura and Malcolm Gauld, and fellow Hyde School parenting coaches:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/parentingbiggestjob/

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Previously Recorded Webinars

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Priority #1: Taking Hold and Letting Go
with Laura Gauld and Pam Hardy
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Priority #2: Principles Over Rules
with Laura Gauld and Pam Hardy
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Priority #3: Attitude Over Aptitude
with Laura Gauld and Pam Hardy
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Priority #4: Set High Expectations and Let Go Of The Outcomes
with Laura Gauld and Pam Hardy
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Priority #5: Value Success And Failure
with Laura Gauld and Pam Hardy
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Priority #6: Allowing Obstacles To Become Opportunities
with Laura Gauld and Pam Hardy
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Priority #7: Taking Hold And Letting Go
with Laura Gauld and Pam Hardy
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Books

The Biggest Job We’ll Ever Have
By Laura and Malcolm Gauld

In this groundbreaking book, Laura and Malcolm Gauld draw on their experience as parents and as educators at Hyde — an organization of award-winning schools and programs — to argue persuasively that true education springs not just from seeking good grades and achievements but from reestablishing a commitment to character, attitude, and purpose. Offering a new paradigm for reconnecting education with values, the Gaulds focus attention not on the child, but on the child’s primary teacher — the parent.
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What Kids Want -and Need- From Parents
By Joseph Gauld

In this, Gauld’s fourth book, he outlines a powerful parenting process that has proven to inspire thousands of families. Gauld’s work is founded in the belief that the deepest motivation in children compels them to bond with parents who serve as mentors and who work with their children to prepare them for life.
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Nature’s Parenting Process: Five Simple Truths to Empower Children through Parenting Excellence
By Joseph Gauld

This book unlocks nature’s powerful process for raising children, a process that produces truly fulfilling and exceptional lives. It is available to every parent, family and child. It’s an exciting challenge, which should become our next frontier.

Nature’s Parenting Process, centering on what Gauld calls the “inherent guidelines for raising children,” was inspired by the nationally recognized parenting and family concepts created 44 years ago at the first Hyde School in Bath, Maine. Gauld’s assertion — that parenting today has become painfully confused because of a prevalent mindset that ignores the basic foundation of child-rearing — targets a parenting trend that he sees as both arbitrary and self-regulating and threatens the emotional well-being of today’s youth.
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Character First: The Hyde School Way and Why It Works
By Joseph Gauld

Courage. Integrity. Leadership. Curiosity. Concern. These values are sadly missing from today’s schools. Joe Gauld knew this too well as a teacher, coach, and administrator at secondary schools that were supposed to be among the best in the country. He saw a system preoccupied with students’ ability and academic achievement, and blind to their character. Gauld decided to do something about it – start his own school.
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Hyde Preparation for Life HYDE: Preparation for Life
By Joseph Gauld

The book outlines a human growth process through character education that has been developed at Hyde Schools and in Hyde families over the past 46 years. It explains the core belief that each of us has been endowed with a unique potential that defines our larger purpose in life. Once committed to the development of our unique potential, individuals, families, and indeed, schools and communities, will experience a profound change in their lives.
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COLLEGE SUCCESS GUARANTEED: Five Rules to Make it Happen (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011)
By Malcolm Gauld

What better for those seniors, their parents, and new college freshmen than a simple guidebook, an easy-to-read read roadmap to the exciting, intimidating, often overwhelming world of higher education. Now, one of the country’s leading educators shares straightforward advice in COLLEGE SUCCESS GUARANTEED: Five Rules to Make it Happen (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011).

To Buy: This book is available in paperback or Kindle format on Amazon.com, online in the Hyde Gear Store, or on campus in either Hyde Bookstore.

A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting
By Hara Estroff Marano

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

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
By Brene Brown

The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
By Jessica Lahey