Suggested Resources for Parents
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| Dr. Robert Brooks and Dr. Sam Goldstein |
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Tough Times/Resilient Kids, an award winning documentary featuring Drs. Brooks and Goldstein, has just been released on DVD. |
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Nurturing Resilience in Our Children: Answers to the Most Important Parenting Questions |
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Angry Children, Worried Parents: Seven Steps to Help Families Manage Anger |
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Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Your Child
What a gift to give to your children - strength, hope, optimism, resiliency. Learn how from this inspiring book. |
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| Dr. Robert Brooks and Dr. Sam Goldstein, and Sharon Weiss, M.Ed. |
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Seven Steps to Help Your Child Worry Less |
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| Edward Hallowell, M.D. |
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The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness
What do we really want for our kids? Happiness! This book outlines for parents a 5-step process that reinforces your child’s ability to learn the skills she’ll need to create and sustain lifelong joy. |
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When You Worry About the Child You Love: Emotional and Learning Problems in Children
A reassuring guide to solving your child’s emotional and learning problems. |
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| Carole C. Haber, Louise B. Ames, Frances L. Ilg |
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Gesell Institute Child Development Series
Remember when you studied the developmental milestones for your baby each month. Continue that knowledge about your growing child with this fantastic series of paperbacks. They explain many valuable details about normal child development at each age. s |
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| Adele Faber |
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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
A classic easy read that will dramatically improve your communication with your child. These principles become vital to secure attachment between parent and child during the elementary years. |
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| Elaine Mazlish and Adele Faber |
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Siblings Without Rivalry
Another classic from the authors of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk , this book has saved my sanity many times. |
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| Thomas Armstrong |
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In Their Own Way: Discovering & Encouraging Your Child's Multiple Intelligences
How to discover your child's particular areas of strength among eight distinctive types of human intelligence. This book is an inspiration to parents of children who are underachieving in the typical classroom. |
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| Dr. Anthony Wolf |
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Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? : A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager
Ingram: 'Full of insight and humor, but refreshingly nonjudgmental, this book offers every parent a new perspective on his/her teenager. Dr. Wolf doesn't simply give a blueprint of today's teenager; he examines the issues that confront parents and shows why girls and boys act so differently during this time.' |
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| Judy Ford |
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Wonderful Ways to Love a Teen : ...Even When It Seems Impossible
Ingram: 'A follow-up to the author's best-selling Wonderful Ways to Love a Child shows parents how to nurture, inspire, and encourage their teenagers instead of trying to control their every action.' |
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| Thomas Gordon |
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Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children
You could call this "Human Effectiveness Training" because using these principles of effective communication will improve all of your relationships. The emphasis of this approach is to develop self-control and self-discipline - two crucial components of healthy personality development. |
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