Jane M. Healy

Author of Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think And What We Can Do About It

8 Works 1,028 Members 7 Reviews

About the Author

Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., is a lecturer, consultant, educational psychologist, and the author of three previous books about how children do (and don't) learn, Your Child's Growing Mind, Endangered Minds, and Failure to Connect. She is a parent and grandparent, and lives with her husband in Vail, show more Colorado. show less

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Works by Jane M. Healy

Your Child's Growing Mind: Brain Development and Learning From Birth to Adolescence (1987) 271 copies, 2 reviews

FAILURE TO CONNECT: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds -- and What We Can Do About It (1998) 166 copies, 1 review

Different Learners: Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Your Child's Learning Problems (2010) 43 copies

Is Your Bed Still There When You Close the Door? (1992) 25 copies, 1 review

How to Have Intelligent and Creative Conversations with Your Kids (1994) 19 copies, 1 review

Loving Lefties: How to Raise Your Left-Handed Child in a Right-Handed World (2001) 15 copies

El Niño Zurdo (2006) 1 copy

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IS YOUR BED STILL THERE WHEN YOU CLOSE T by Jane Healy

Fun of great ideas for developing higher-order thinking skills, many appealing ideas, presenting in an encouraging format.

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Bookjoy144 | Mar 2, 2022 |

Endangered Minds by Jane M Healy

WHy Children don't thing - and what we can do about it

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jhawn | 1 other review | Jul 31, 2017 |

Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think And What… by Jane M. Healy

Kinda boring and a bit school marmish.

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santom01 | 1 other review | Oct 29, 2011 |

Your Child's Growing Mind: Brain Development… by Jane Healy

A wonderful primer on how a mind forms. Like anyone with young children, I am fascinated by how my son experiences and learns about his world. When you read about some of the science behind it, it becomes even more amazing.

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apartmentcarpet | 1 other review | Mar 12, 2009 |

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