Summer Reading List: Four Books by Champions for Youth Speakers
Summer Reading List: Four Books by Champions for Youth Speakers
Summer is here, and you know what that means: summer reading!
Want to spend your summer learning something new? Check out these three books (plus one zine) by speakers at the 2024 Champions for Youth Summit and get ready to learn more this fall.
- Raising a Healthy, Happy Eater: A Parent’s Handbook by Dr. Nimali Fernando
Pediatrician Nimali Fernando and feeding therapist Melanie Potock specialize in showing parents the way to joyful, nutritious mealtimes. Their proven strategies direct families past every roadblock, whether selective eating, different parenting styles, special needs, or medical issues such as sensory disorders.
In Raising a Healthy, Happy Eater, they offer clear guidance for every stage of a child’s development, from birth to elementary school:
- Steps to encourage self-feeding and the importance of letting little ones get messy
- Tips on how to ditch unhealthy kids’ menus and kids’ meals
- Recipes designed especially for young taste buds
- Helpful insights on the sensory system, managing mealtime behaviors, healthy eating around the world—and much more.
The authors also highlight seven qualities of good parenting — being joyful, compassionate, brave, patient, consistent, proactive, and mindful — and show how valuable they are at mealtimes and beyond.
2. Mending Walls: A Healing Public Art Project by Hamilton Glass, public artist and creator of the CFY23 painting
“It started as a public art initiative, then it became a podcast and the subject of an Emmy-winning PBS documentary. Now Richmond’s acclaimed Mending Walls mural project will be documented in an expansive coffee table book.”
This book tells the story of Mending Walls through pictures captured by photographers Brenda Soque and Katrina Taggart- Hecksher. Brenda and Katrina captured the first to the final stroke of paint laid on the walls by our Mending Walls artists, watching each mural come to life from beginning to end. The Conversation side will share the stories of the murals through interviews of our Mending Walls artist. This is an intimate look into the project through our artists’ perspectives. They will share what inspired them stories about the process and progress of each wall and the story of their healing journey through Mending Walls and their partnerships.
3. Never Check E-Mail In the Morning: And Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work by Julie Morgenstern
The New York Times bestselling author, Oprah’s favorite organizing expert, and America’s number one problem solver presents a revolutionary book named one of the five best business books by Cathie Black, president of Hearst Magazines.
It will help readers achieve the seemingly impossible: boost value and job security without sacrificing personal life. Morgenstern teaches innovative “grab and go” solutions that can be processed in as few as fifteen minutes to dramatically improve performance and efficiency, including:
- Beware of multitasking. Scattering your efforts makes for a longer day.
- Dance near the revenue line. Making or saving money is where your greatest value lies.
- Crunch your container. Shorten your workday by thirty minutes and you will get more done.
- Trust your truth. Never undervalue your unique self, skills, and point of view.
If you’ve ever wondered, “Is it me or is it them?” Julie Morgenstern’s practical “inside out” approach will help you diagnose the source of each workplace problem and solve it quickly.
4. Bonus: Black Lives / Black Lungs: The Action Zine by Lincoln Mondy
This zine is part of Lincoln Mondy’s Black Lives / Black Lungs project, which explores the origins and impact of America’s First Great Enterprise, the Tobacco Industry, and how it shaped the Black experience in America.
Read it for free here.
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