Parent Resources

• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Your Child: What Every Parent Needs to Know – What’s Normal, What’s Not, and When to Seek Help

• Ames, Louise Bates and Ilg, Frances L. (Gesell Institute of Human Development)
Your One-Year Old, Your Two-Year Old,….Your Fourteen Year-Old
This series of excellent books describes general characteristics of each age and techniques for enhancing family life. The books are brief and help parents have an understanding of appropriate expectations for each age.


• Coleman, Paul
How To Say It To Your Kids: The Right Words to Solve Problems, Soothe Feelings and Teach Values
Coleman gives specific language to help communicate effectively about 100 different issues.

• Davis, Laura and Keyser, Janis
Becoming the Parent You Want To Be: A Sourcebook of Strategies for the First Five Years

• Dinkmeyer, Don and McKay, Gary D.
STEP: (Systematic Training for Effective Parenting: The Parent’s Handbook
This workbook contains helpful information and worksheets for parents on topics such as communication, natural and logical consequences as a method of discipline, and understanding children’s behavior and misbehavior. Schools frequently offer this workshop for parents.

• Faber, Adele and Mazlish, Elaine
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk and Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
Both books teach simple, effective communication strategies using down-to-earth dialogues and helpful cartoons. These are award-winning, best-selling books that parents love.

 

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• Greenspan, Stanley
The Challenging Child: Understanding, Raising, and Enjoying the Five “Difficult” Types of Children
Greenspan describes five types of children – the highly sensitive child, the self-absorbed child, the defiant child, the inattentive child, and the active/aggressive child in a reassuring way that helps parents fit their parenting style to their child’s unique personality.

• Levine, Katherine Gordy
Parents are People Too: An Emotional Fitness Program For Parents
Levine presents a practical program designed to help parents accept and effectively deal with the negative feelings that are an unavoidable part of being a parent.

• Samalin, Nancy
Loving Your Child Is Not Enough
Samalin describes how to effectively discipline without punishment.
Loving Each One Best: A Caring and Practical
Approach To Raising Siblings and Loving Without Spoiling concise, specific ideas on 100 different topics
Helpful information is also available on her website:www.Samalin.com.

• Taffel, Ron
Nurturing Good Children Now
Wisdom and practical advice. This is a parent favorite.

• Thompson, Michael
Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children

 

 

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