Kidz1st pediatricians have some favorite authors and books for recommendation to parents. Some are intended for children & teens to read as well.
Heading Home with Your Newborn by Laura Jana & Jennifer Shu
Heading Home with Your Newborn has everything new and expectant parents need to know about caring for baby in the first few months after birth. Written by two pediatricians who are also parents, this awarding-winning guide covers feeding, sleeping, changing, bathing, dressing, traveling, sickness, child care options, and much more.
Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey Karp
An expert pediatrician shares his techniques for soothing babies and increasing sleep.
Mommy Calls by Tanya Reymer Altman
Dr. Altmann has kept track of the various questions asked by new and experienced parents. Mommy Calls represents what she considers to be the top 101 most common questions parents ask their pediatrician.
New Mother’s Guide to Breastfeeding by Joan Younger Meek & Winnie Yu
With everything new mothers need to know about breastfeeding, this fully revised and updated edition covers more than a decade’s worth of the latest research including how to know if your baby is getting enough, information regarding positioning and latching, feeding patterns and more.
Sign with Your Baby by Joseph Garcia
This book teaches hearing parents how to use simple sign language gestures to communicate with their hearing infants before their infants can speak.
Touchpoints: Birth to Three by Terry Brazelton & Joshua Sparrow
Provides information on physical, emotional, and behavioral development while addressing the new stresses on families and fears of children, with a fresh focus on the role of fathers and other caregivers. This updated volume also offers new insights on prematurity, sleep patterns, early communication, toilet training, co-sleeping, play and learning, SIDS, cognitive development and signs of developmental delay, childcare, asthma, a child's immune system, and safety.
Baby 411 by Ari Brown & Denise Fields
You are having a baby! Congratulations! Now, the reality hits you—what the heck am I doing? What if you could bottle the wisdom of all those parents who’ve come before you ... and mix it with the solid medical advice from a nationally-renowned pediatrician? Baby 411 is the answer! Think of it as the ultimate FAQ for new parents.
Dad to Dad: Parenting like a Pro by David Hill
Dr. Hill is a dad himself and a pediatrician in practice. Inside this practical yet humorous book, dads and dads-to-be will find helpful information on various parenting topics.
Guide to Your Child’s Symptoms by Donald Schiff &Steven Shelov
The most complete, authoritative, and up-to-date guide to children's symptoms available -- from the most respected authority on child and adolescent health care in America.
The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep by Harvey Karp
Offers invaluable tips on how to help your newborn, infant, or toddler get the rest they need, while debunking some of the most widely held myths about babies and sleep.
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Twins by Dr. Marc Weissbluth
Dr. Marc Weissbluth combines specialized advice for parents of twins with his tried-and-true sleep-training methods to show exhausted moms and dads how to get their babies to sleep on their own, stay asleep, and sleep regularly.
Mama Doc Medicine: Finding Calm and Confidence in Parenting by Wendy Sue Swanson
Pediatrician, mother and blogger Dr. Wendy Sue Swanson helps decipher today’s conflicting medical opinions, offers helpful online resources, and shares what she’s learned over many years from her patients, friends and family in this enlightening guide to parenting.
My Child is Sick: Expert Advice for Managing Common Illnesses and Injuries by Barton Schmitt
Straightforward information on the most common illnesses and injuries of childhood. Decision charts to help care givers determine when to call the doctor and when it’s safe to treat symptoms at home, as well as descriptions of which symptoms are normal during the course of an illness or recovery from an injury and which are cause for concern.
No Cry Sleep Solutions: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night by Elizabeth Pantley
Pantley's guide provides you with effective strategies to overcoming naptime and nighttime problems
Sleep: What Every Parent Needs to Know by the American Academy of Pediatrics & Rachel Moon
From infants and toddlers, to school-age kids and adolescents, sleeptime problems can affect everyone in the family. And no matter what your child’s difficulty may be – getting to sleep, staying asleep, bed-wetting, fears or nightmares – it’s never too late to take steps to correct it.
What to Expect: Babysitters Handbook by Heidi Murkoff & Sharon Mazel
This guide contains everything a caregiver needs to know from newborn to preschooler. A mix of text, boxes, Q&As, and lists-plus plenty of blank space for parents to write in emergency numbers, specific instructions, and personal information about a child's likes and dislikes -- it's the instruction manual that should be given to every caregiver, whether full- time nanny or weekend baby-sitter. It covers advice on feeding and diet, first aid, bathing an infant, potty-training, time-outs, rainy-day activities, sibling disputes, discipline problems, comforting a child, making play dates, even how to build a happy and healthy relationship with the child's family.
What to Expect: The First Year by Heidi Murkoff & Sharon Mazel
Guide to the instructions that babies don’t come with, but should - including practical tips, realistic advice, and relatable, accessible information.
Dr. Anderegg draws on social science research and his more than twenty years' experience as a therapist treating both parents and their children to clarify facts and fantasies about kids' lives today and the key issues that preoccupy parents. In the process, he offers a comforting and useful message: Parents are suffering needlessly -- and there are things they can do to take the edge off and focus on what their children really need.
1, 2, 3 Magic by Thomas Phelan
Compiles two decades of research and experience into an easy-to-use program designed for parents striving to connect more deeply with their children and help them develop into healthy, capable teenagers and adults
1, 2, 3 Magic Workbook by Thomas Phelan
1-2-3 Magic allows you to get back in charge of your home and enjoy your kids again by helping you set limits for your children, and by breaking down the complex task of parenting into three straightforward steps
The authors tastefully blend the science of nutrition and pediatrics with the practical insights of parents who have been in your shoes - offering simple solutions for your daily nutritional challenges.
How to get your Kids to Eat… but Not Too Much by Ellyn Satter
This guide explores the relationship between parents, children, and food in a warm, friendly, and supportive way.
Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes by Mollie Katzen & Ann Henderson
Child friendly recipes offering the child chef the opportunity to count, measure, mix, assemble, and most important, have fun.
The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers
Offers parents loving solutions to help their energetic and willful toddlers get the rest they--and their parents--so desperately need.
First Bite: How We Learn to Eat by Bee Wilson
Draws on the latest research from food psychologists, neuroscientists, and nutritionists to reveal that our food habits are shaped by a whole host of factors: family and culture, memory and gender, hunger and love.
Guide to Toilet Training by The American Academy of Pediatrics
This invaluable resource covers everything you need to know about the toilet-training process to make this important transition as easy and as positive as possible for both you and your child.
Dr. Altmann has kept track of the various questions asked by new and experienced parents.
Mommy Calls represents what she considers to be the top 101 most common questions parents ask their pediatrician.
Toddler 411: Clear Answers & Smart Advice for Your Toddler by Ari Brown & Denise Fields
Toddler 411 bottles the wisdom of parents who’ve “been there, done that” . . . and combines it with solid medical advice from an award-winning pediatrician.
Touchpoints: Birth to Three by Terry Brazelton & Joshua Sparrow
Provides information on physical, emotional, and behavioral development while addressing the new stresses on families and fears of children, with a fresh focus on the role of fathers and other caregivers. This updated volume also offers new insights on prematurity, sleep patterns, early communication, toilet training, co-sleeping, play and learning, SIDS, cognitive development and signs of developmental delay, childcare, asthma, a child's immune system, and safety.
Touchpoints 3-6 by Terry Brazelton & Joshua Sparrow
The authors apply the touchpoints theory (following the pattern of growth-new challenge- reegression-recharging-and renewed growth) to each of the great cognitive, behavioral, and emotional leaps that occur from age three to six. In the second half of the book they offer precious guidance to parents facing contemporary pressures and stresses, such as how to keep a child safe without instilling fear, countering the electronic barrage of violent games and marketing aimed at children, coping successfully with varied family configurations, over-scheduling, competition, and many other vital issues today.
David Decides about Thumbsucking: A Story for Children, a Guide for Parents by Susan Heitler
The Parent Guide addresses myths and realities about thumbsucking.
This handy resource provides educational tools for parents and caregivers to help children develop healthier eating behaviors during their early years of life.
The Kissing Hand by Audry Penn & Ruth Harper
This heartwarming book has become a children's classic that has touched the lives of millions of children and their parents, especially at times of separation, whether starting school, entering daycare, or going to camp. It is widely used by kindergarten teachers on the first day of school.
No: Why Kids of All Ages - Need to Hear it and Ways Parents Can Say It by David Walsh
Provides you with an arsenal of tactics, explanations, and examples for using No the right way with your kids. His memorable, affecting, and sometimes humorous anecdotes help you regain confidence in your own judgment and ability to say No as they remind you that you're not alone in your parenting struggles. With Dr. Walsh's down-to-earth advice, you can immediately assess and improve your relationship with your kids, set and enforce limits that make sense for different ages (from toddlers to teens), and otherwise make No a positive influence on kids' behavior and in your overall family life.
Parenting with Love and Logic By Foster Cline & Jim Fay
This parenting book shows you how to raise self-confident, motivated children who are ready for the real world. Learn how to parent effectively while teaching your children responsibility and growing their character.
What to Expect: The Second Year: From 12 to 24 Months by Heidi Murkoff
From the first birthday to the second, this book covers everything parents need to know in an easy-to-access, topic-by-topic format, with chapters on growth, feeding, sleeping, behaviors of every conceivable kind, discipline (including teaching right from wrong), and keeping a toddler healthy and safe as he or she takes on the world
Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food by Jessica Seinfeld
A book is filled with traditional recipes that kids love, except they're stealthily packed with veggies hidden in them so kids don't even know.
This book presents over 75 recipes that ingeniously disguise the most important superfoods inside kids’ favorite meals.
David Decides about Thumbsucking: A Story for Children, a Guide for Parents by Susan Heitler
The Parent Guide addresses myths and realities about thumbsucking.
Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings by Kenneth Ginsburg
Guides parents and other caring adults how to help kids from the age of 18 months to 18 years build the seven crucial "C's"--competence, confidence, connection, character, contribution, coping, and control. These are the critical ingredients young people need to bounce back from life's challenges and thrive far into the future.
Teaching your Children Values by Richard Eryre & Linda Eyre
A practical, proven, month-by-month program of games, family activities, and value-building exercises for kids of all ages.
How to Talk so Kids Will Listen, and Listen so Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
A timeless, beloved book on how to effectively communicate with your child from #1New York Times bestselling authors.
Gives parents the practical tools they need to cope with conflict, encourage cooperation, reduce competition, and make it possible for children to experience the joys of their special relationship.
Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman by Jeanne Elium & Don Elium
Guides parents through each stage of a girl’s development, from infant to toddler, through middle childhood, the teen years, and on into early adulthood while offering a practical exploration of what it means to have a daughter, and a compassionate study of what it means to be a woman coming of age in today’s world.
Raising a Son: Parents and the Making of a Healthy Man by Don Elium & Jeanne Elim
Embrace the challenges--and the joys--of raising boys with compassion, commitment, experience, patience, and humor, this book follows the psychological development of boys from infancy to young adulthood.
Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Kindlon & Michael Thompson
The authors make a compelling case that emotional literacy is the most valuable gift we can offer our sons, urging parents to recognize the price boys pay when we hold them to an impossible standard of manhood. They identify the social and emotional challenges that boys encounter in school and show how parents can help boys cultivate emotional awareness and empathy--giving them the vital connections and support they need to navigate the social pressures of youth.
Provides parents with the most up-to-date research, effective discipline tips, and practical strategies for raising spirited children.
Provides a positive, practical, proven approach that can end your child s bedwetting now.
Offers a straightforward prescription for empathetic yet disciplined child rearing and introduced new communication techniques that would change the way parents spoke with, and listened to, their children.
Offers guidance and support for parents to develop strong, loving attachments to their children as well as the ability to provide appropriate limits and discipline, all necessary elements of good parenting.
In-depth look at the devastation and destruction of entitlement and provide techniques for preventing and curing the problem.
SOS Help for Parents, Third Edition by Lynn Clark
Offers tips on improving the behavior and emotional adjustment of children, ages two to twelve.
A new approach to family dynamics, inspired by cutting-edge techniques gathered from experts in the disciplines of science, business, sports, and the military.
Sports Success Rx: Your Child’s Prescription for the Best Experience by Paul Stricker
Written by a pediatrician who is also board-certified in sports medicine, this book shows caretakers: How young bodies develop for sports, age-appropriate skills, proper conditioning and how it works on a cellular level, why some kids compete to win attention, safer ways to help kids perform better, positive and negative impact on young psyches, and strategies to overcome obesity and inactivity.
Waking up Dry: A Guide to Helping Children Overcome Bedwetting by Howard Bennett
A positive, interactive plan for overcoming bedwetting, geared to parents of kids ages 6-13.
Words Will Never Hurt Me: Helping Kids Handle Teasing, Bullying and Putdowns by Sally Northway Ogden
Learn practical and fun methods to teach kids to handle situations that used to make them feel stressed and inadequate.
The author, a parent and child psychiatrist has a unique understanding of both the mind-boggling benefits and the serious downsides of technology. Dr. Gold weaves together scientific knowledge and everyday practical advice to help you foster your child's healthy relationship to technology, from birth to the teen years.
Helps you understand why and when your child does these things and how to respond in ways that are nonpunitive, nonadversarial, humane, and effective.
What to Expect: Babysitters Handbook by Heidi Murkoff & Sharon Mazel
This guide contains everything a caregiver needs to know when minding a child, from newborn to preschooler. A mix of text, boxes, Q&As, and lists-plus plenty of blank space for parents to write in emergency numbers, specific instructions, and personal information about a child's likes and dislikes--it's the instruction manual that should be given to every caregiver, whether full- time nanny or weekend baby-sitter. It covers advice on feeding and diet, first aid, bathing an infant, potty-training, time-outs, rainy-day activities, sibling disputes, discipline problems, comforting a child, making play dates, even how to build a happy and healthy relationship with the child's family.
This handbook helps parents sharpen any child's social skills by identifying the "unwritten rules" that govern all relationships.
This parenting book shows you how to raise self-confident, motivated children who are ready for the real world. Learn how to parent effectively without anger, threats, nagging, or power struggles.
Helps answer these endless and perfectly normal questions that preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary school children ask about how they began.
Helps answer these endless and perfectly normal questions that preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary school children ask about how they began.
Answers any questions you might have about puberty, from what it is and what it feels like, to what puberty is like for girls, to how to handle the sexual feelings you may be starting to experience.
A reassuring book for every girl about to have her period, and every parent wishing to prepare a daughter for this important milestone.
The Feelings Book: The Care and Keeping of Your Emotions by Lynda Madison & Josee Masse
This book will help you understand your emotions, and deal with them in positive ways. You'll get tips on how to express your feelings and stay in control, plus get sensitive advice on handling fear, anxiety, jealousy, and grief.
The Care and Keeping of you 2: The Body Book for Older Girls by Cara Natterson
This book covers new questions about periods, your growing body, peer pressure, personal care, and more.
What to do when you Worry Too Much: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Anxiety by Dawn Huebner
Interactive self-help book designed to guide 6-12 year olds and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques most often used in the treatment of generalized anxiety.
What to do when Your Temper Flares: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Problems with Anger by Dawn Huebner
Interactive self-help book teaches children a set of anger dousing methods aimed at cooling angry thoughts and controlling angry actions, resulting in calmer, more effective kids
Guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat a variety of habits such as nail biting, scab picking, shirt chewing, etc.
What To Do When Good Enough Isn’t Good Enough: The Real Deal on Perfection by Thomas Greenspon
Helps kids understand how perfectionism hurts them and how to free themselves. Includes true-to-life vignettes, exercises, and a note to grown-ups.
Interactive self-help book contains examples, activities, and step-by-step instructions that help children master the skills needed to break free from the sticky thoughts and urges of OCD, and live happier lives.
Interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering children to fall asleep and stay asleep.
Honest Pretzels: And 64 Other Amazing Recipes for Cooks Ages 8 and Up by Mollie Katzen
65 fully kid-tested, illustrated recipes that require only a little adult assistance. It also gives young cooks, ages eight and up, a chance to practice reading, math, and logic skills and think of the sense of accomplishment they will feel as they grow into creative, confident chefs.
The Boys Body Book: Third Edition: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up You by Kelli Dunham
Guide for boys, and it's here to help with expert advice, common sense tips, fast facts, and answers to all questions a boy might have
Boys Guide to Becoming a Teen by the American Medical Association & Kate Gruenwald Pfeifer
Advice to get you ready for the changes you will experience during puberty
Getting Organized Without Losing It by Janet Fox
Tips, techniques, strategies, and examples empower kids to conquer clutter, prioritize tasks, handle homework, prepare for tests, plan projects, stop procrastinating, and start enjoying the benefits of being organized: less stress and more success.
Bullies are a Pain the Brain by Trevor Romain
This book blends humor with serious, practical suggestions for coping with bullies.
Dude That’s Rude by Pamela & Elizabeth Verdick
Full-color cartoons and kid-friendly text teach the basics of polite behavior in all kinds of situations—at home, at school, in the bathroom, on the phone, at the mall, and more.
How to Take the Grrr Out of Anger by Elizabeth Verdick & Marjorie Lisovskis
The book teaches them how to recognize anger in themselves and others, how to handle situations and emotions (loneliness, guilt, frustration, fear) that lead to or mask anger, and how to deal with the anger they feel.
How to do Homework without Throwing Up by Elizabeth Verdick & Marjorie Lisovskis
Trevor Romain knows how horrible homework can be, and kids will see this right away as they page through this book, grin at the cartoons, and smile at Trevor's funny insights. Meanwhile, they'll discover valuable truths and pointers about homework.
How Full is your Bucket by Tom Rath & Mary Reckmeyer
An illustrated adaptation of the long-running bestseller How Full Is Your Bucket? (more than 400,000 copies sold) for kids — told through the story of a boy who learns a valuable “bucket filling” metaphor and watches it come to life as the day unfolds
I Said No! A Kid to kid Guide to Keeping Private Parts Private by Kimberly King & Zack King
Using a simple, direct, decidedly non-icky approach that doesn't dumb down the issues involved, as well as an easy-to-use system to help kids rehearse and remember appropriate responses to help keep them safe, I Said No! covers a variety of topics.
Is a Worry Worrying You? By Ferida Wolff & Harriet May Savitz
This book addresses children's worries with humor and imagination, as hilarious scenarios teach kids the use of perspective and the art of creative problem-solving.
Just Kidding by Trudy Ludwig & Adam Gustavson
Takes a look at relational aggression, the use of relationships to manipulate and hurt others, this time from the boy's point of view.
See you Later Procrastinator by Pamela Espeland & Elizabeth Verdick
Full-color cartoons and kid-friendly text teach kids how to get motivated, stay motivated, and get things done.
Stress Can Really Get on Your Nerves by Trevor Romain & Elizabeth Verdick
This book is a helping hand for kids and an eye-opener for adults. Reassuring words, silly jokes, and light-hearted cartoons let kids know they’re not the only worry-warts on the planet—and they can learn to manage their stress.
Siblings: You’re Stuck with Each Other so Stick Together by James Crist & Elizabeth Verdick
Full-color illustrations and humorous, kid-friendly text teach kids how to cope with problems of fairness, jealousy, conflict, tattling, privacy, and other things that can make having siblings so difficult.
This book--now with updated content and illustrations--offers girls straight talk on what to do when it seems like everyone's wondering "who likes who?" It includes sensitive, insightful, honest advice from girls and boys on being friends, going out, breaking up, and just being themselves.
My Secret Bully by Trudy Ludwig
Monica is a target of relational aggression, emotional bullying among friends who will use name-calling and manipulation to humiliate and exclude. But with a little help from a supportive adult—her mother—Monica learns to cope and thrive by facing her fears and reclaiming power from her bully.
Kids learn how to build the five Social Competencies Assets: planning and decision making, interpersonal competence, cultural competence, resistance skills, and peaceful conflict resolution. Stories, tips, and ideas help them get along better with others and stay true to
themselves.
Proud To Be You: The Positive Identity Assets by Pamela Espeland & Elizabeth Verdick
Kids learn how to build the four Positive Identity Assets: personal power, self-esteem, sense of purpose, and a positive view of their personal future. Stories, tips, and ideas help them feel good about themselves and optimistic about what's ahead for them.
Cliques, Phonies and other Baloney by Trevor Romain
Written for every kid who has ever felt excluded or trapped by a clique, this book blends humor with practical advice as it tackles a serious subject
A Pocket Full of Kisses by Audrey Penn & Barbara Leonard Gibson
Provides parents with another tale of love and reassurance to share with their children.
A collection of 21 concrete strategies kids can pull out and use to express themselves, build relationships, end arguments and fights, halt bullying, and beat unhappy feelings
A Terrible Thing Happened by Margaret Holmes, Sasha Mudlaff & Cary Pillo
Sherman Smith saw the most terrible thing happen. At first he tried to forget about it, but something inside him started to bother him. He felt nervous and had bad dreams. Then he met someone who helped him talk about the terrible thing, and made him feel better.
The Color Monster: A Story About Emotions
As this adorable monster learns to sort and define his mixed-up emotions, he gains self-awareness and peace as a result. Everyone will enjoy sharing this concept book that taps into both socio-emotional growth and color concepts in a simple, friendly way.
Impulsive Ninja: Impulse control for school and home
Children without impulse control act or talk before they think, often unable to control their initial response to a situation. The ability to self-regulate is absent and they don't pause to think about future consequences. Impulsivity is related to acting without thought. As a result, children do things like take unnecessary risks, blurt things out, don’t wait their turn, or interrupt conversations. This book is a perfect resource for children with autism, ADD, ADHD, or SPD.
Yes your Teen is Crazy! Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind by Michael Bradley
A book that updates the rulebook, giving parents the training and skills they need to transform their teenage children into strong, confident, productive adults.
Jodi Gold, a practicing psychologist and mother, has a unique understanding of both the mind-boggling benefits and the serious downsides of technology. Dr. Gold weaves together scientific knowledge and everyday practical advice to help you foster your child's healthy relationship to technology, from birth to the teen years
This is a survival guide for parents who find themselves marooned among volatile and incomprehensible aliens on Planet Teen.
Discover the tools to combat the often stormy years of adolescence, this book is packed with practical, accessible advice and guidelines.
Cowritten by a former top college admissions dean and a leading pediatrician, this first-of-its-kind book delivers strategies for surviving the admissions process while strengthening parent-child relationships, managing the stress of applying to college, and building resilience to meet challenges today and in the future.
Provides thoughtful, clear, specific guidance on when and, most important, how to help children begin to understand sex, love, and commitment from the most positive viewpoint possible
The Care and Keeping of You by American Girl
With good illustrations and updated content for girls ages 8 and up, this book features tips, how-tos, and facts from the experts. Young girls will get answers to questions about their changing body, from hair care to healthy eating, bad breath to bras, periods to pimples, and everything in between.
Teens and Sex Today by By Dr. Ruth Westheimer
The world-renowned sex therapist and educator offers sage advice on how to help both parents and teens survive adolescence in our digital age
Gives you the key to keeping your teenager safe while building a trusting, warm, and communicative relationship.
Dr. Murray identifies controlling, abusive patterns of behavior and helps you get your daughter out of the relationship without alienating her
Dying to be Perfect. How teens can Stay Happy, Healthy and Alive by Robert Michael Cavanaugh
Uses a novel approach to getting into the heads of adolescents as the key to touching their hearts and reducing risk-taking behaviors
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher & Ruth Ross
Offers important tactics, empathy, and strength, and urging a change where young hearts can flourish again, and rediscover and reengage their sense of self.
Offers concrete strategies to help you empower your daughter to be socially competent and treat herself with dignity
A book to explain the scientific, brain-based reasons behind teens’ impulsive behavior, lack of focus, self-consciousness, territoriality, fatigue, and their quickness to anger and taking risks.
This informative book will guide parents through the landscape of the digital world, helping them better understand things
7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey
A simple approach to help teens improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, and get along with their parents, as well as tackle the new challenges of our time, like cyberbullying and social media
The first book to focus on the day-to-day experiences of adolescents dealing with sexual identity issues providing the insights and practical strategies parents need to support their kids and cope themselves
Survival guide that will help you stay sane through every stage of your child’s sexual development
A book explaining why character and personal responsibility form the foundation of lasting academic and occupational achievement
Shows parents how to stay calm and cool-headed while dealing with hot-button issues everything from rude attitude and lying to sex and substance use -- with clear, easy-to-follow suggestions for setting limits while maintaining a close and loving relationship
Provides parents with tools to help girls become confident women, along with practical tips on helping your daughter choose a sport, nurturing her spirit through female-centered activities, and more
Advice that will help frustrated parents reconnect with their teenager and keep that connection even in today's often-crazy world
With many ready-to-use lessons, this book gives busy teachers, school counselors, and parents succinct lessons that generate deep discussion and inquiry about the real world of post-secondary education and work.
Helping Your Transgender Teen – A guide for parents by Irwin Krieger
A book to help parents of transgender teens gain an understanding of this complex subject.
The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals by Stephanie Brill & Rachel Pepper
A guidebook that explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising their children with the topic of gender variance from birth through college.
Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Winds by Kenneth Ginsburg
This guide offers coping strategies for facing the combined elements of academic performance, high achievement standards, media messages, peer pressure, and family tension.
Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Kindlon & Michael Thompson
The authors make a compelling case that emotional literacy is the most valuable gift we can offer our sons, urging parents to recognize the price boys pay when we hold them to an impossible standard of manhood. They identify the social and emotional challenges that boys encounter in school and show how parents can help boys cultivate emotional awareness and empathy—giving them the vital connections and support they need to navigate the social pressures of youth.
A new approach to family dynamics, inspired by cutting-edge techniques gathered from experts in the disciplines of science, business, sports, and the military.
Parenting with Love & Logic by Foster Clind, MD and Jim Fay
This parenting book shows you how to raise self-confident motivated children who are ready for the real world. Learn how to parent effectively without anger, threats, nagging or power struggles.
Yes, your Parents are Crazy! Loving your Kid without Losing Your Mind by Michael Bradley
A book that updates the rulebook, giving parents the training and skills they need to transform their teenage children into strong, confident, productive adults.
Teen Love: on Relationships: A Book for Teenagers by Kimberly Kirberger
A blend of information that provides a wide-ranging perspective on love and relationships. It will enable teens to gain wisdom and choose more wisely when making decisions in love and relationships.
It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health by Robie Harris
Providing accurate and up-to-date answers to nearly every imaginable question, from conception and puberty to birth control and STDs.
In Love and in Danger: A Teen’s Guide to Breaking Free of Abusive Relationships by Barrie Levy
A book for teenagers who have questions about abusive dating relationships helps them understand the causes and consequences of their situation, learn what they can do about it, find help from parents and other adults, and discover how to build healthier relationships.
7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covy
A simple approach to help teens improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, and get along with their parents, as well as tackle the new challenges of our time, like cyberbullying and social media.
A conversational, down-to-earth guide for high school and college students on how to maximize their learning and get the grades they want.
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.
When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. With the help of her best friend, Kelly, George comes up with a plan. Not just so she can be Charlotte -- but so everyone can know who she is, once and for all.
The Difficult Child by Stanley Turecki & Leslie Tonner
Dr. Stanley Turecki, one of the nation's most respected experts on children and discipline--and himself the father of a once difficult child--offers compassionate and practical advice to parents of hard-to-raise children.
Provides parents with the most up-to-date research, effective discipline tips, and practical strategies for raising spirited children.
The book illuminates the confusing list of terms often applied to quirky children–from Asperger’s syndrome and nonverbal learning disability to obsessive-compulsive behavior and sensory integration dysfunction. The authors also discuss various therapy options, coping strategies, and available medications. Most of all, they will help quirky kids lead rich, fulfilling lives at home, at school, even on the playground.
ADHD: 102 Practical Strategies for Reducing the Deficit by Kim Frank
The book is intended to be practical and encouraging. ADHD may not go away, but managing the effects of this disorder is possible.
ADHD: What Every Parent Needs to Know by Michael Reiff
A balanced guide to help you and your child meet the many challenges of the often misunderstood disorder.
Survival Guide for Kids with ADD and ADHD by John Taylor
In kid-friendly language and a format that welcomes reluctant and easily distracted readers, this book helps kids know they’re not alone and offers practical strategies for taking care of oneself, modifying behavior, enjoying school, having fun, and dealing with doctors, counselors, and medication. Includes real-life scenarios, quizzes, and a special message for parent.
Cory Stories: A Kid’s Book about Living with ADHD by Jeanne Kraus & Whitney Martin
In short statements and vignettes, Cory describes what it's like to have ADHD: how it affects his relationships with friends and family, his school performance, and his overall functioning. He also describes many ways of coping with ADHD: medication, therapy/counseling, and practical tips for school, home, and friendships.
Helping your Anxious Child: A Step by Step Guide for Parents by Ronald Rapee & Ann Wignall
The book offers proven effective skills based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to aid you in helping your child overcome intense fears and worries.
Examines all manifestations of childhood fears, including social anxiety, Tourette’s Syndrome, hair-pulling, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and guides you through a proven program to help your child back to emotional safety.
This book shows you how to identify when your child's separation anxiety or school refusal is more than just a phase and offers effective tools that you can use to manage your child's anxiety.
Helps you understand why and when your child does these things and how to respond in ways that are nonpunitive, nonadversarial, humane, and effective.
Odd Girl Out Revised and Updated, The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons
Gives girls, parents, and educators proven and innovative strategies for navigating social dynamics in person and online, as well as brand new classroom initiatives and step-by-step parental suggestions for dealing with conventional bullying.
The Color Monster: A Story About Emotions
As this adorable monster learns to sort and define his mixed-up emotions, he gains self-awareness and peace as a result. Everyone will enjoy sharing this concept book that taps into both socio-emotional growth and color concepts in a simple, friendly way.
Impulsive Ninja: Impulse control for school and home
Children without impulse control act or talk before they think, often unable to control their initial response to a situation. The ability to self-regulate is absent and they don't pause to think about future consequences. Impulsivity is related to acting without thought. As a result, children do things like take unnecessary risks, blurt things out, don’t wait their turn, or interrupt conversations. This book is a perfect resource for children with autism, ADD, ADHD, or SPD.
No restrictive meal plans, no extreme exercise routines, no guilt, and no more shame. This book teaches parents to take a "whole child," holistic approach to feeding and nurturing their kids from the inside out. In this ground-breaking book.
Sports Success Rx! Your Child’s Prescription for the Best Experience by Paul Stricker
Written by a pediatrician who is also board-certified in sports medicine, this book shows caretakers: How young bodies develop for sports, age-appropriate skills, proper conditioning and how it works on a cellular level, why some kids compete to win attention, safer ways to help kids perform better, positive and negative impact on young psyches, strategies to overcome obesity and inactivity, it’s a great way to help parents redefine success and provide a better, safer sports experience.
Way to go Coach! By Frank Smoll & Ronald Smith
A complete guide to coaching young athletes.
Home Strength Training by Jordan Metzel
Designed for athletic kids between the ages of 8 and 18 years of age, this video and flashcard set will teach parents, coaches, and health providers how to strength train young athletes at home.
Helping Children Cope with the Loss of a Loved One by William Kroen
Explains how children from infancy through age 18 perceive and react to death.
Help me Say Goodbye: Activities for Helping Kids Cope when a Special Person Dies by Janis Silverman
An art therapy and activity book for children coping with death.
Badgers Parting Gifts by Susan Varley
Badger's friends are sad when he dies but treasure the memories he left them. "The gentle message holds particular validity for children and is conveyed in a tenderhearted manner.
I miss you: A First Look at Death by Pat Thomas & Leslie Harker
This book helps boys and girls understand that death is a natural complement to life, and that grief and a sense of loss are normal feelings for them to have following a loved one's death.
The Invisible String by Patrice Karst & Geoff Stevenson
A simple approach to overcoming the fear of loneliness or separation with an imaginative flair that children can easily identify with and remember.
Talking About Death: A Dialog Between Parent and Child by Earl Grollman
This book is a compassionate guide for adults and children to read together, featuring a read-along story and answers to questions children ask about death.
Helping Children Cope with Divorce by Edward Tyber
Teaches you to minimize stress during initial breakups and ultimate separation, explain divorce so children don't blame themselves, protect children from parental hostilities, and navigate conflicts of loyalty and alliance
7 Steps to Bonding with Your Stepchildren by Suzen Zieghan
Practical, realistic, and upbeat advice--from sharing a bathroom to initiating conversations--for people who "inherit" children along with a new spouse.
Stepcoupling: Creating and Sustaining a Strong Marriage in Today’s Blended Families by Susan Wisdom
Provides tips and strategies on dealing with the issues remarried couples face, with a wealth of advice from real-life stepcouples.
The Smart Stepfamily: Seven Steps to a Healthy Family by Ron Deal
Addresses key concerns and practical issues facing every stepfamily
Keys to Successful Stepfathering by Carl Pickhardt
Describes the contributions a stepfather can make to his new family, with advice on how he can assume a reliable and reassuring presence in family life.
From the foremost authority on children's health--a vital guide for parents whose children suffer from allergies and asthma.
Whatever the health issue, you will learn the essential parenting skills you need to help your child comply with medical requirements, cope well with health challenges, and live a hope-filled life. Get practical and compassionate answers to your toughest questions as you discover effective ways to communicate about medical issues with children of all ages.
Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and Search for a Cure by Paul Offit
In this book, Paul A. Offit, a national expert on vaccines, challenges the modern-day false prophets who have so egregiously misled the public and exposes the opportunism of the lawyers, journalists, celebrities, and politicians who support them
Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Complete Guide to Understanding Autism by Chantal Sicile-Kira
Explains all aspects of the condition, and is written for parents, educators, caregivers, and others looking for accurate information and expert insight.
Love and Logic Solution for Kids with Special Needs by David Funk
Provides tools and insights for those teaching special need kids.
Married with Special Needs Children: A Couples Guide to Keeping Connected by Laura Marshak
A guide that speaks to parents about how to work on marital issues while juggling the demands of raising a child with a developmental disability, serious medical condition, or mental illness.
More Than a Mom: Living a Full and Balanced Life When your Child Has Special Needs by Amy Baskin
A lifeline of information and advice for mothers who have children with developmental or physical disabilities, mental health or learning issues, or chronic medical conditions.
A brutally honest, non-PC look at the lives, experiences, and opinions of siblings without disability.
Views From Our Shoes: Growing up with a Brother or Sister with Special Needs by David Joseph Meyer
45 siblings share their experiences as the brother or sister of someone with a disability.
Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected, A Memoir by Kelle Hampton
An inspiring and heartfelt memoir that celebrates the beauty found in the unexpected, the strength of a mother’s love, and, ultimately, the amazing power of perspective
How Doctors Think by Gerome Groopman
Describes in detail the warning signs of erroneous medical thinking and reveal how new technologies may actually hinder accurate diagnoses. How Doctors Think offers direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track.
Grandparenting with Love and Logic by Jim Fay & Foster Cline
Show grandparents how to develop enjoyable, fulfilling relationships with both their adult children- while helping grandchildren grow into responsible, caring young people.
Love and Logic for Lasting Relationships by Jim Fay & David Hawkins
Gives you a powerful toolbox filled with tried and true techniques that have proven useful to millions of people
Marriage: Love and Logic by Foster Cline & Hermie Drill Cline
This is a read-and-understand, lock-it-in-with practice book that will enrich your relationship with your loved one.
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
Explores how people who love each other must struggle to accept each other—a theme in every family’s life.
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