The best microbooks on Emotional Intelligence to make you overcome obstacles in your personal and professional life.

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“Listen to Your Mother” is a collection of 56 personal, real-world essays and stories about the miracle of motherhood. Topics range from adoption to assimilation to adolescence, from first-time parenting to foster parenting, from mothering through unsolicited advice to mothering through unplanned pregnancy. We’ve picked out our favorite four stories – and we feel that none of them will leave you indifferent.

Listen to Your Mother

“Strong Mother, Strong Sons” contains advice from American pediatrician Meg Meeker on how mothers should raise their sons. Based on her personal experience in working with mothers in her hometown in Michigan, she highlights the importance of letting go, and of teaching sons an emotional vocabulary.

Strong Mothers, Strong Sons

‘’Mom & Me & Mom’’ is the last book in a series of autobiographies by Maya Angelou, which focuses on her relationship with her mother Vivian Baxter. Since Vivian left Maya and her brother when they were just a few years old, the relationship between these two women did not start out well. Despite this, Angelou does not remember her mother with resentment, but rather with gratitude for everything she did for her later in life.

Mom & Me & Mom

“The Magic of Motherhood” is a collection of stories from the blog “Coffee + Crumbs,” created by Ashlee Gadd. North American mothers share their stories of bringing up children, of pregnancy, and of the everyday mania of being a mother. Whether it is about adoption, letting go, or making hard choices, this treasure trove of stories offers advice to all mothers out there.

The Magic of Motherhood

‘’The Opposite of Spoiled’’ by Ron Lieber explores the ways parents can teach their children to manage their finances. For Lieber, childhood is the best time for parents to start talking about money with their children. However, parents usually do not share his opinion and stay silent when their children ask questions about the family’s finances. Lieber believes that by avoiding giving their children lessons on money, parents lose an important opportunity to teach their children to be generous, disciplined, and patient.

The Opposite of Spoiled

An inspiring guide deep-rooted in Eastern philosophies, “The Conscious Parent” by Dr. Shefali Tsabary attempts to revolutionize traditional parenting methods by demonstrating that child-rearing is really about the parent. Going beyond how-to techniques aimed at fixing specific behaviors, the book speaks to the deeper aspects of the relationship between parent and child and reveals that the child is indeed the father of the man.

The Conscious Parent

“Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting” by Dr. Laura Markham offers a new approach to parenting that involves no yelling or punishment. By taking charge of your own emotions through mindfulness, you will then be able to connect with your children on a deeper emotional level that will help them grow into happier, more self-disciplined adults.

Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids

True to its title, Amy Morin’s “13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don’t Do” lists all the things mentally strong parents avoid doing. The book also explains how steering clear of these unhealthy – but popular – parenting habits can help anyone raise self-assured, happy, and successful children.

13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don't Do

The fourth collaboration of Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson, “The Power of Showing Up” goes over the basics of attachment theory and uses this as a foundation to teach parents the importance of being present for their children and the ways they can make them feel safe, seen, soothed, and secure.

The Power of Showing Up

Based on years of research and pediatric practice, “The Happiest Baby on the Block” by Harvey Karp proposes the revival of an ancient intuitive way of calming colicky babies. The book employs the theory of evolution to explain why babies yearn for a womblike atmosphere even after birth – and explicates how to recreate it through five easy steps.

The Happiest Baby on the Block

Modeled after the international bestseller “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk,” “How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen” by Joanna Faber and Julie King tailors the original “How to Talk” techniques to parents of children aged between 2 and 7.

How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen

In “No-Drama Discipline,” the authors elaborate on the ultimate child-raising challenge - instilling discipline. They emphasize the importance of communication and tranquility when it comes to handling children. By doing so, parents will be able to avoid tantrums, tensions, tears and grab the opportunity to reconnect, and grow.

No-Drama Discipline

As a modern parent in search of better methods for raising children, you might have come across the fact that Danish parents constantly receive praise for their ability to produce generations of fulfilled citizens. The “Danish Way of Parenting” is based on a six-part philosophy conveniently shortened to the acronym PARENT (play, authenticity, reframing, empathy, no, and togetherness).

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