Reading List for Parents

Parenting Reading List

These books have been suggested to us by various professionals:

Best Friends, Worst Friends: Understanding the Social Lives of Children by Dr. Michael Thompson

Cleaning House:  A Mom's Twelve Month Experiment to Rid Her Home of Youth Entitlement by Kay Wills Wyma

Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall?  A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager by Dr. Anthony Wolf

Getting to Calm: Cool Headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens and Teens by Laura Kastner

Homesick and Happy:  How Time Away from Parents Can Help a Child Grow by Dr. Michael Thompson

Mom, They're Teasing Me: Helping Your Child Solve Social Problems by Dr. Michael Thompson

Parenting Teens with Love and Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood by Foster Cline

Parents, Teens and Boundaries: How to Draw the Line by Dr. Jane Bluestein

Raising Cain:  Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dr. Michael Thompson

The Pressured Child by Dr. Michael Thompson

Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers by Dr. Mike Riera

Why do They Act That Way by Dr. David Walsh

Wonderful Ways to Love a Teen:...Even When it Seems Impossible by Judy Ford