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Recommended Parenting Books

The following are recommended books by topic.  While by no means a complete listing all of all the wonderful books that have ever been written, it does include our favorite "oldies, but goodies" as well as newer publications that delve into the issues relevant to today's society.

Adolescence

Fears Siblings
Adoption Foster Parents Single Parenting
ADHD Girls Sleep
Anger Grandparents Social Development
Babies Learning/schooling Special Needs
Boys Mothers Stepfamilies
Bullying Only Children Temperament
Child Development Over-indulgence       /Challenging Child
Culture

Parenting (General)

Toddlers/ Tantrums
Death/Loss Postpartum Toilet Learning
Discipline/Punishment Problem Exploration Trauma
Divorce Resilience Values/Morals/Character
Families Self-esteem Violence Prevention
Fathers Sexuality  
     

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Adolescence

          Bradley, Michael J., Yes, Your Teen is Crazy

Elium, Don & Jeanne, Raising a Teenager

Giannetti & Sagarese, The Roller Coaster Year

Gurian, Michael, A Fine Young Man

Riera, Michael, Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers

                      Staying Connected To Your Teenager

Steinberg, Laurence, Crossing Paths

                               You and Your Adolescent

Taffel, Ron, The Second Family – Dealing with Peer Power, Pop Culture, the

                                                                                       Wall of Silence

Youngs, Bettie, Safeguarding Your Teenager from the Dragons of Life

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Adoption

Eldridge, Sherri, 20 Questions Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew

Melina, Lois, Making Sense of Adoption

                  Raising Adopted Children

Magazine: Adoptive Families Magazine

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ADHD

Barkley, RA, Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for

                                                                                                   Parents

Freed and Parsons, Right Brained Children in a Left Brained World

Hallowell, Edward and John Ratey, Driven to Distraction

Nadeau, Littman & Quinn, Understanding Girls with ADHD                                      Answers to Distraction

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Anger

Greene, Ross, The Explosive Child

Hyland, Terry L. and Jerry Davis, Angry Kids, Frustrated Parents

Lerner, Harriet Goldhor, The Dance of Anger

Samalin, Nancy, Love and Anger: The Parental Dilemm

Schiraldi, Glenn and Melissa Hallmark Kerr, The Anger Management

                                                               Sourcebook

Tavris, Carol, Anger – The Misunderstood Emotion

Verdick, Elizabeth and Marjorie Lisovskis, How to Take the Grrrr Out of Anger

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Babies

Acredolo, Linda and Susan Goodwyn, Baby Signs

Brazelton, T. Berry, and Joshua Sparrow, Calming Your Fussy Baby the                                                                   Brazelton Way

Cole, Joanna, The New Baby at Your House

Dix, Carole, The New Mother Syndrome

Eisenberg, Murkoff & Hathoway, What to Expect The First Year

Kleiman, Karen & Raskin, This Isn’t What I Expected

Leach, Penelope, Babyhood

                         Your Baby and Child

Sears, William and Martha Sears, The Baby Book

                                                 The Fussy Baby Book

White, Burton, The First Three Years of Life

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Boys

Gurian, Michael, A Fine Young Man

                        The Wonder of Boys

Pollack, William, Real Boys

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Bullying

Bolton, Jose, and Stan Graeve, No Room for Bullies

Cohen-Posey, Kate, How to Handle Bullies, Teasers and other Meanies

Coloroso, Barbara, The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander

Frankel, Fred, Good Friends are Hard to Find

Fried & Fried, Bullies and Victims

Giannetti & Sagarese, Cliques

McCoy, Elin, What to do When Kids are Mean to Your Child

McNamara, Barry, Keys to Dealing with Bullies

Ross, Dorothea, Childhood Bullying and Teasing

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Child Development

Ames, Louise Bates, and Frances Ilg, Your One Year Old,

                                                      Your Two Year Old,

                                                      Your Three Year Old

Brazelton, T. Berry, Touchpoints

Fraiberg, Selma, The Magic Years

Gessell, Arnold, and Frances Ilg, The Child From Five to Ten

Hewitt, Deborah, So This is Normal Too?

Ilg, Frances and Louise Bates Ames, Child Behavior

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Culture

Clinton, Hillary Rodham, It takes a Village

Elkind, David, The Hurried Child

Elkind, David, Ties that Stress

Gordon, Sol, Raising a Child Responsibly in a Sexually Permissive World

Hochschild & Machung, The Second Shift

Leach, Penelope, Children First

Pipher, Mary, The Shelter of Each Other

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 Death/Loss

Coloroso, Barbara, Parenting with Wit and Wisdom in Times of Chaos

                                                                                          and Loss

Huntley, Theresa, Helping Children Grieve

Kroen, William, Helping Children Cope with the Loss of a Loved One

Mellonie, Bryan & Robert Ingpen, Lifetimes,The Beautiful Way to Explain

                                                                              Death to Children

Trozzi, Maria, Talking with Children About Loss

Viorst, Judith, Necessary Losses

Worden, William, Children and Grief:  When a Parent Dies  

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Discipline/Punishment

For Younger Children (ages one to four years)   

Crary, Elizabeth, Magic Tools for Raising Kids

                         Without Spanking or Spoiling

Faber, Adele and Elaine Mazlish, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen

                                                                                  So Kids Will Talk

Greene, Ross, The Explosive Child

Kennedy, Michelle, Tantrums – Last Straw Strategies

Kurcinka, Mary Sheedy, Kids, Parents and Power Struggles

White, Burton, Raising a Happy Unspoiled Child

 

For Older Children (ages three or four years and above)

Clarke, Jean Illsley, Growing Up Again

Coloroso, Barbara, Kids Are Worth It

Crary, Elizabeth, Kids can Cooperate

Kurcinka, Mary Sheedy, Kids, Parents and Power Struggles

Nelsen, Jane, Positive Discipline

Silberman & Wheelen, How to Discipline Without Feeling Guilty

Silberman, Mel, Confident Parenting

Swift, Madeline, Discipline for Life: Getting it Right With Children

             

          Corporal Punishment (Spanking)

          Greven, Philip, Spare the Child

          Hyman, Irwin, The Case Against Spanking

          Karr-Morse, Robin & Meredith Wiley, Ghosts from the Nursery

          Miller, Alice, For Your Own Good

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Divorce

Beyer, Roberta, and Kent Winchester, Speaking of Divorce             

Hetherington, E. Mavis and John Kelly, For Better or Worse: Divorce

                                                                             Reconsidered 

Hickey, Elizabeth and Elizabeth Dalton, Healing Heart

Kalter, Neil, Growing Up with Divorce

Neuman, Gary, Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastle Way

Thomas, Shirley, Parents Are Forever

Teyber, Edward, Helping Children Cope with Divorce

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Families

Clarke, Jean Illsley, Connections, The Threads that Strengthen Families

Covey, Stephen, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families

Curran, Delores, Traits of a Healthy Family

Doherty, William, The Intentional Family

Elkind, David, Ties that Stress

Imber-Black & Robers, Rituals for Our Times

Lerner, Harriet, The Dance of Intimacy

McGoldrick, Monica, You Can Go Home Again

Wagner, Hilory, And Baby Makes Four

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Fathers

Brott, Armin, The Single Father

Gill, Libby, Stay-At-Home Dads

Kleiman, Karen, The Postpartum Husband

O’Shea, Kevin,and James Windell, The Fatherstyle Advantage

Pruett, Kyle, Fatherneed

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Fears

 Schacter, Robert & Carole McCauley, When Your Child is Afraid

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Foster Parents

 Temple-Plotz, Stricklett, Baker & Sterba, Practical Tips for Foster Parents

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Girls

Dee, Catherine, The Girls Guide to Life

Elium, Don & Jeanne, Raising a Daughter

Giannetti & Sagarese, Cliques

Gilligan, Carol, In a Different Voice

Gurian, Michael, The Wonder of Girls

Mackoff, Barbara, Growing a Girl

Madaras, Lynda, The What’s Happening to my Body for Girls

Nadeau, Littman & Quinn, Understanding Girls with ADHD

Pipher, Mary, Reviving Ophelia

Shandler, Nina, Ophelia’s Mom

Wiseman, Rosalind, Queen Bees & Wannabes

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Grandparents

Kornhaber, Arthur, The Grandparent Guide

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Learning/Schooling

Faber, Adele & Elaine Mazlish, How to Talk So Kids Can Learn

Goleman, Daniel, Emotional Intelligence

Gurian, Michael, Boys and Girls Learn Differently!

Hoyle, Sally G., Same Homework, New Plan

Levine, Mel, Educational Care – A System for Helping Children with Learning

                                                                                                Problems

                  A Mind at a Time

                  The Myth of Laziness

                  Keeping a Head in School

Nadeau, Littman & Quinn, Understanding Girls with AD/HD

Oppenheim, Joanne, Choosing Books for Kids

Poretta, Vicki & Marion Borden, Mom’s Guide to Raising a Good Student

Rich, Dorothy, MegaSkills – How Parents Can Help Children Succeed in

                                                                              School and Beyond

Steinberg, Laurence, Beyond the Classroom

Tobias, Cynthia, The Way They Learn

                        How Your Child Learns and Succeeds

Trelease, Jim, The Read Aloud Handbook

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Mothers

Bort, Julie, and Aviva Pflock and Devra Renner, Mommy Guilt

Edelman, Marion Wright, Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors

                                    The Measure of our Success

Galinsky, Ellen, The Six Stages of Parenthood

Kelly & Parsons, The Mother’s Almanac

Penley, Janet, MotherStyles

Peri, Camille, Kate Moses, editors, Mothers Who Think

Roiphe, Anne, Fruitful

Saavedra, Beth Wilson, Meditations for New Mothers

Saavedra, Beth Wilson, Meditations for Mothers of Toddlers

Unell, Barbara and Jerry Wyckoff, The Eight Seasons of Parenthood

Viorst, Judith, Imperfect Control

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Only Children

Leman, Kevin, The Birth Order Book

Nachman, Patricia and Andrea Thompson, You and Your Only Child -The

                Joys, Myths, and Challenges of Raising and Only Child

Newman, Susan, Parenting an Only Child - The Joys and Challenges of

                Raising Your One and Only

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Over-indulgence

Clarke, Jean Illsley, How Much is Enough

Kindlon, Dan, Too Much of a Good Thing

Levin, Madeline, The Price of Privilege

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Parenting (General)

Faber and Mazlish,How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk

                           Liberated Parents, Liberated Children: Your Guide to a

                                                                                         Happier Family

Benson, Peter and Judy Galbraith and Pamela Espeland, What Kids Need to

                                                                                              Succeed

Bettelheim, Bruno, A Good Enough Parent

Brazelton, T. Berry, Touchpoints

Brazelton, T. Berry and Stanley Greenspan,The Irreducible Needs of Children

Loomans, Diana, What All Children Want Their Parents to Know

Mogel, Wendy, The Blessings of a Skinned Knee

Taffel, Ron, Parenting by Heart

Penley, Janet, MotherStyles

Roehlkepartain & Leffert, What Young Children Need to Succeed

Shure, Myrna, Thinking Parent, Thinking Child

Woititz, Janet, Healthy Parenting

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Postpartum

Dix, Carol, The New Mother Syndrome

Kleiman,Karen, This isn’t What I Expected

                       The Post Partum Husband

Saavedra, Beth Wilson, Meditations for New Mothers

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Problem Exploration

Crary, Elizabeth, Kids Can Cooperate

Drew, Naomi, The Kids’ Guide to Working Out Problems

Polland, Barbara, We Can Work it Out (for parents to read to young children)

Shure, Myrna, Thinking Parent, Thinking Child

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Resilience

Benson, Peter, Judy Galbraith and Pamela Espeland, What Kids Need to

                                 Succeed

Brooks, Robert and Sam Goldstein, Raising Resilient Children

Glenn, Stephen and Jane Nelson, Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-

                                Indulgent World

Joseph, Joanne, The Resilient Child

Medhus, Elisa, Raising Children Who Think for Themselves

Seligman, Martin, The Optimistic Child

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Self-esteem

Block, Douglas, The Power of Positive Talk            

Bowlby, John, A Secure Base

Briggs, Dorothy Corkille, Your Child’s Self-Esteem

Chapman & Campbell, The Five Love Languages of Children

Clarke, Jean Illsley, Self-Esteem, A Family Affair

Clemes & Bean, How to Raise Children’s Self-Esteem

Goleman, Daniel, Emotional Intelligence

Kaufman, Gershen, Raphael and Pamela Espeland, Stick Up for Yourselves!

                                     (for parents to read with older children)

Marston, Stephanie, The Magic of Encouragement

Seligman, Martin, The Optimistic Child

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Sexuality

Gordon, Sol, Raising a Child Responsibly in a Sexually Permissive World

Madaras, Lynda, The What’s Happening to My Body Book for Boys

                         The What’s Happening to My Body Book for Girls

Miron, Amy, and Charles D. Miron, How to Talk with Teens about Love,

                                                                         Relationships and S-E-X

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Siblings

Brazelton, T. Berry and Joshua Sparrow, Understanding Sibling Rivalry The

Brazelton Way

Calladine & Calladine, Raising Brothers and Sisters Without Raising the Roof   Faber, Adele and Elaine Mazlisch, Siblings Without Rivalry             

Lansky, Vicki, Welcoming Your Second Baby

Leman, Kevin, The Birth Order Book

McDermott, John, Raising Cain and Abel Too

Samalin, Nancy, Loving Each one the Best

Weiss, Joan Solomon, Your Second Child

                           

For Children

Hoban, Russell, A Baby Sister for Frances

Zolotow, Charlotte, Big Sister and Little Sister

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Single Parenting

Anderson, Joan, The Single Mother’s Book

Brott, Armin, The Single Father

Engbar, Andrea & Leah Klugness, The Complete Single Mother

Pickhardt, Carl, Keys to Single Parenting

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Sleep

Douglas, Ann, Sleep Solutions for your Baby, Toddler and Preschooler

Jones, Sandy, Crying Baby, Sleepless Nights

Kurcincka, Mary Sheedy, Sleepless in America

Pantley, Elizabeth, The No-Cry Sleep Solution

                           The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and PreschoolersSears, William, Nighttime Parenting

Tobin, Cathryn, The Lull-a-Baby Sleep Plan

Weissbluth, Marc, Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child

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Social Development

Frankel, Fred, Good Friends are Hard to Find

Thompson, Michael, Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the

                                                                             Social Lives of Children

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Special Needs

Ashley, Susan, The Asperger’s Answer Book

Cronin, Eileen M, Helping Your Dyslexic Child

Freed & Parsons, Right Brained Children in a Left Brained World

Greenspan, William, and Serena Wieder, Engaging Autism

Hallowell, Edward and John Ratey, Driven to Distraction

                                                  Answers to Distraction

Kranowitz, Carol Stock, The Out of Sync Child

Mauro, Terri, The Everything Parent’s Guide to Sensory Integration Disorder

Myles, Cook, Miller, Rinner, and Robbins, Asperger Syndrome and Sensory

                                                                                                     Issues

Nadeau, Littman & Quinn, Understanding Girls with ADHD

Naseef, Robert, Special Children, Challenged Parents (personal story)

Notbohm, Ellen, Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew

Roberts, Elizabeth J., Should You Medicate Your Child’s Mind?

Smith, Karen A. and Karen R. Gouze, The Sensory Sensitive Child

Stehli, Annabel, The Sound of a Miracle (personal story)

Waltz, Mitzi, Bipolar Disorders

                  Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

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Stepfamilies

Einstein, Elizabeth, and Linda Albert, Strengthening Your Stepfamily

LeBey, Martha, Remarried with Children

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Temperament/challenging children

Adderholdt, Miriam, and Jan Goldberg, Perfectionism

Carey, William, Understanding Your Child’s Temperament

CHADD, The CHADD Information and Resource Guide to AD/HD

Edwards, C. Drew, How to Handle a Hard to Handle Kid

Freed & Parsons, Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World

Greene, Ross, The Explosive Child

Greenspan, Stanley, The Challenging Child

Hallowell & Ratey, Driven to Distraction

                           Answers to Distraction

Kranowitz, Carol, The Out-of-Sync Child

Kurcinka, Mary Sheedy, Raising Your Spirited Child

Laney, Marti Olsen, The Hidden Gifts of the Introverted Child

Shick, Lyndall, Understanding Temperament

Turecki, Stanley, The Difficult Child

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Toddlers/Tantrums

Brazelton, T. Berry, Toddlers and Parents

Fisher, John, From Baby to Toddler

Fraiberg, Selma, The Magic Years

Karp, Harvey, The Happiest Toddler on the Block

Kennedy, Michelle, Tantrums – Last Straw Strategies

Saavedra, Beth Wilson, Meditations for Mothers of Toddlers

White, Burton, Raising a Happy Unspoiled Child

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Toilet Learning

Mack, Alison, Toilet Learning

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Trauma

Coloroso, Barbara, Parenting Through Crisis with Wit and Wisdom in Times

                                                                                 of Chaos and Loss

Hendrix, Harville, Giving the Love That Heals

Schacter, Robert & Carole McCauley, When Your Child is Afraid

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Values/Morals/Character

Berger, Elizabeth, Raising Children with Character

Heath, Harriet, Using Your Values to Raise Your Child to be an Adult You                                                                                                    Admire

Kilpatrick, William, Why Johnny Can’t Tell Right from Wrong

Lickona, Thomas, Raising Good Children

                          Educating for Character

Popov, Linda, The Family Virtues Guide

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Violence Prevention

Carlsson-Paige & Levin, Who’s Calling the Shots? How to Respond Effectively

                                  to Children’s Fascination with War Play and War Toys

Muscari, Mary, “Not My Kid – “ 21 Steps to Raising a Non-Violent Child

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