Emily Pearl is a big girl who insists on doing everything for herself until evening, when having someone help her get ready for bed is nice.

When Liam hears a load roar in the middle of the night, he must use all his ingenuity to protect his sleeping mother from a hungry bear.

Five chicks are left alone as their mothers go in search of grain.

A national spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics arms parents with the tools they need to teach and model independence for their children as part of their everyday routine so that their children develop both the confidence and skills they need to try things on their own.

Emily Pearl is good at very many things, and is the first with an offer to help her teacher, but when the school day ends and her father is late picking her up, she finds she needs a little help, too.

Examines the American obsession with self-reliance and how it has led to inequality, self-blame, and shifted the responsibility for survival onto the backs of ordinary people.

When challenges arise during a hiking and camping trip a mother could do a lot of things herself, such as carrying her son's heavy pack or putting up the tent by herself, but always finds a way to lovingly teach self-reliance.

An independent pill bug learns that sometimes a friend is necessary.

From this award-winning creative duo comes a stunning celebration of the joy and comfort that love can bring-wherever we roam in the big, wild world. No matter what challenges children may face, they can always rely on the love umbrella above them.

Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists...