Helen Plum Library

"The authors of the Los Angeles Times bestselling The Whole-Brain Child team up again to offer parents of children aged 2-13 a practical roadmap to effective, productive, and more peaceful discipline, highlighting the fascinating and important connection between the way a parent reacts to misbehavior and a child's neurological development"--

If you want to make positive changes in your life and achieve your long-term goals, I can't think of a better way to do it than to learn how to become more self-disciplined. Science has figured out a lot of interesting aspects of self-discipline and willpower, but most of this knowledge is buried deep inside long and boring scientific papers. If you'd like to benefit from these studies without actually reading them, this book is for you. I've done...

Would you do cartwheels in the cafeteria? It's not always easy to have self-control, but it's always worth it! Explore your sense of responsibility, learn what it means to stop and think, and discover how you can build confidence through self-control!

All great leaders, thinkers, artists, athletes, and visionaries share one indelible quality. It enables them to conquer their tempers. To avoid distraction and discover great insights. To achieve happiness and do the right thing. Ryan Holiday calls it stillness -- to be steady while the world spins around you. Drawing on a wide range of history's greatest thinkers, from Confucius to Seneca, Marcus Aurelius to Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stuart Mill to Nietzsche,...

Never-before-published wisdom from famed self-help author Napoleon Hill. Napoleon Hill, the legendary author of the classic best seller Think and Grow Rich, has been immortalized for his contributions to the self-help genre. In this never-before-published work Hill shares his principles of success, key habits that provide the basis for life-changing success. Success Habits explains the fundamental rules that lead to a prosperous life. From the importance...

Otto loves to do everything BIG. He builds a space station, but it's not big enough. "More rockets!" he says. "More towers!" Then one day, Otto goes to a birthday costume party wearing a huge costume. Otto's costume is so big that he can't take part in the games and activities! Will he finally learn that sometimes, more can be too much?

When Splash needs to learn how to be quiet, her grandfather takes her for swimming lessons

"How on earth do you resist the most amazing cake? One little girl is about to find out just how hard it can be..." -- Dust jacket

"A Stoic demonstrates exercises in self-governance and peace of mind through mental discipline."

Skylar is very bright and does well in school, except that she has a hard time staying in her seat and waiting to be called on, but a special starry project shows her that she can change