Kids First Canada: Book List - Recommended Reading


Check out our recommended reading on the following topics: Parenting Children's Development Daycare Critiqued Family Economics Learning, Schooling, Education Exploitation Consumer Society, Commercialization and Corporate Control Politics, Economics and Families, Care, Unpaid Work Women, Feminism, Mothers * = Canadian author Parenting *Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Matter by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate Motherhood: How Should We Care for Our Children? by Anne Manne Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain by Sue Gerhardt Amazon UK link Book review Raising Babies by Steve Biddulph Raising Boys by Steve Biddulph The Secret of Happy Children by Steve Biddulph *Scattered Minds by Gabor Mate (ADD/HD) The Four-Thirds Solution by Stanley Greenspan The Irreducible Needs of Children:What Every Child Must Have to Grow, Learn and Flourish by T Berry Brazelton and Stanley I. Greenspan The Family Bed by Tine Thenevin An article on the family bed by Katie Allison Granju The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds-for Better and Worse by Jane M. Healy The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding by La Leche League International To Top of Page Children's Development Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain by Sue Gerhardt Amazon UK link Book review Motherhood: How Should We Care for Our Children? by Anne Manne Your Baby and Child by Penelope Leach The Irreducible Needs of Children: What Every Child Must Have to Grow, Learn and Flourish by T Berry Brazelton and Stanley I. Greenspan Last child in the woods: saving our children from nature-deficit disorder by Richard Louv To Top of Page Daycare Critiqued Motherhood: How Should We Care for Our Children? by Anne Manne The Day Care Deception by Brian C. Robertson Amazon.com link There's No Place Like Work by Brian C. Robertson Amazon.com link Parenting by Proxy by Laura Schlessinger What Money Can't Buy by Susan e Mayer To Top of Page Family Economics The Tightwad Gazette by Amy Dacyczyn Clutter's Last Stand It's Time to De-Junk Your Life! by Don Aslett Book review Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Joe Dominguez, Vicki Robin The Four-Thirds Solution by Stanley Greenspan To Top of Page Learning, Schooling, Education The Myth of the First Three Years by John T. Bruer How Children Learn by John Holt An Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto Dumbing Us Down by John Tayor Gatto Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds-for Better and Worse by Jane M. Healy Book review Mindset: the new psychology of success by Carol S. Dweck To Top of Page Exploitation The Politics of Breastfeeding by Gabrielle Palmer *No Logo by Naomi Klein *Free the Children by Craig Kielburger (child labour and slavery) Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild Gender by Ivan Illich Shadow Work by Ivan Illich To Top of Page Consumer Society, Commercialization and Corporate Control Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky Necessary Illusions by Noam Chomsky *Ivan Illich in Conversation by David Cayley *No Logo by Naomi Klein An Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto Dumbing Us Down by John Tayor Gatto Consuming Kids by Susan Linn What Money Can't Buy: Family Income and Children's Life Chances by Susan E. Mayer The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes for Home and Work by Arlie Russell Hochschild *The Corporation by Joel Bakan (also a movie) The Technological Society by Jaques Ellul To Top of Page Politics, Economics and Families, Care, Unpaid Work The Value of Nothing: Why Everything Costs So Much More Than We Think by Raj Patel Following your heart – in the social utopia of Sweden by Jonas Himmelstrand The Swedish Experiment in Family Politics: The Myrdals and the Interwar Population Crisis by Allan Carlson (explains the use/abuse of social sciences by Alva and Gunnar Myrdal that brought mass daycare to Sweden and rejected direct funding to families) Gender by Ivan Illich The Right to Useful Unemployment by Ivan Illich Shadow Work by Ivan Illich There's No Place Like Work by Brian Roberts Motherhood: How Should We Care for Our Children? by Anne Manne Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild The Politics of Breastfeeding by Gabrielle Palmer The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits by John McKnight The Price of Motherhood by Anne Crittenden *Motherwork by Lorna Turnbull If Women Counted by Marilyn Waring Children First by Penelope Leach Haven in a Heartless World by Christopher Lasch The Revolt of the Elites by Christopher Lasch *Pay the Rent or Feed the Kids by Mel Hurtig To Top of Page Women, Feminism, Mothers There's No Place Like Work: How Business, Government, and Our Obsession with Work Have Driven Parents From Home by Brian Roberts Book review explaining how big business and '60s "second wave" feminists cooperated to remove "first wave feminists" hard-won government support for parental child care If You've Raised Kids You Can Manage Anything by Ann Crittenden Book review The Politics of Breastfeeding by Gabrielle Palmer If Women Counted by Marilyn Waring Book review The Price of Motherhood by Anne Crittenden Motherwork by Lorna Turnbull Haven in a Heartless World by Christopher Lasch Who Stole Feminism by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Gender by Ivan Illich The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding by La Leche League International Shadow Work by Ivan Illich Motherhood: How Should We Care for Our Children? by Anne Manne Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild The mommy myth: the idealization of motherhood and how it has undermined women by Susan J Douglas, Meredith W Michaels (very funny in parts)	Search this Site Current Issues and Action Government Submissions Related Links Fund the Child Movement Book List: Recommended Reading Audio/Video Files How You Can Help Join/Donate/Subscribe Contact Us Home
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