Suggested Reading Materials

Guts

Raina Telgemeler

Raina Telgemeier once again brings us a thoughtful, charming, and funny true story about growing up and gathering the courage to face ― and conquer ― her fears.

Dancing with Fear: Controlling Stress and Creating a Life Beyond Panic and Anxiety

Paul Foxman

According to experts, anxiety develops from the combination of three ingredients: genetic traits, family influences, and stress. The stress ingredient accounts for the widespread prevalence of anxiety today. Translation? Anxiety is essentially a learned response to stress overload in sensitive people. Based on the author’s years of experience with anxiety, both personally and professionally as a seasoned psychologist, Dancing with Fear uses a recovery approach to treating this widespread problem.

Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous and Independent Children

Reid Wilson and Lynn Lyons

With anxiety at epidemic levels among our children, Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents offers a contrarian yet effective approach to help children and teens push through their fears, worries, and phobias to ultimately become more resilient, independent, and happy.

Now Say This: The Right Words to Solve Every Parenting Dilemma

Heather Turgeon

A toddler meltdown over the wrong pair of pants, siblings fighting in the back of the car, kids crying when you try to leave the house... Parents have the best intentions to be patient and loving, but in the heat of the moment, they too often find themselves feeling helpless, desperate, and so frustrated that they resort to yelling, threatening, bribing, or caving. Now Say This solves the dilemma: how can you be empathic and effective at once?

 

It’s Not Fair

Anthony wolf

Anthony Wolf's groundbreaking book focuses on the most difficult challenges of parenting post-infant to pre-teen children―setting limits and making demands. Dr. Wolf covers all the class parenting problem areas: family disputes, including who's in charge (Mom or Dad), sibling fights, and divorce; day-to-day issues such as bedtime, grumpiness, and public tantrums; and problems that might not be problems after all, like aggression, lying, and spoiling. Positive, loving, and, above all, effective, this guide offers parents what they want most: more time to enjoy their children.

 

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk Kindle Edition

Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

The ultimate “parenting bible” (The Boston Globe) is a timeless, beloved book on how to effectively communicate with your child from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors.

Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder

Edward Hallowel

Groundbreaking and comprehensive, Driven to Distraction has been a lifeline to the approximately eighteen million Americans who are thought to have ADHD. Now the bestselling book is revised and updated with current medical information for a new generation searching for answers.

Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall?

Anthony E. Wolf

A witty and compassionate guide to raising adolescents, this book addresses the basic issues of adolescence and the relationships between parents and their children in today's fast-paced, less clearly anchored world. Although the rocky and ever-changing terrain of contemporary adolescence may bewilder parents, Get Out of My Life will give you a great road map.

I'd Listen to My Parents if They'd Just Shut Up

Anthony E. Wolf

A wise, funny, and eminently practical guide to raising and understanding teenagers. I’d Listen to My Parents If They’d Just Shut Up offers frustrated moms and dads humorous, dialog-based advice and techniques for what to say and not to say when parenting teens today. 

A Survival Guide to Parenting Teens

Joanie Geltman, MSW

Covering a broad range of issues from the terrifying (sex, drinking, drugs, depression) to the frustrating (defiance, laziness, conformity, entitlement), parenting expert Joani Geltman approaches each of 80 important and relevant topics with honesty and a dash of humor.

Scream-Free Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids...

Hal Edward Runkel, LMFT

ScreamFree Parenting is not just about lowering your voice. It’s about learning to calm your emotional reactions and learning to focus on your own behavior more than your kids’ behavior . . . for their benefit. Our biggest enemy as parents is not the TV, the Internet, or even drugs. Our biggest enemy is our own emotional reactivity. 

Helping Your Anxious Child

Ronald Rapee, PhD

Helping Your Anxious Child offers proven effective skills based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to aid you in helping your child overcome intense fears and worries. You'll also find out how to relieve your child's anxious feelings while parenting with compassion.

The Introvert's Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World

Sofia Dembling

This clever and pithy book challenges introverts to take ownership of their personalities with quiet strength. Sophia Dembling asserts that the introvert’s lifestyle is not wrong or lacking, as society or extroverts would have us believe. Through a combination of personal insights and psychology, The Introvert’s Way helps and encourages introverts to embrace their nature, to respect traits they may have been ashamed of and reframe them as assets.

Taking Charge of ADHD: The complete authoritative Guide for Parents

Russell A. Barkley

From distinguished researcher and clinician Russell A. Barkley, this treasured parent resource gives you the science-based information you need about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its treatment. It also presents a proven eight-step behavior management plan specifically designed for 6- to 18-year-olds with ADHD. 

Getting to Calm, The Early Years: Cool-headed Strategies for Raising Caring, Happy, and Independent 3-7 Year Olds

Laura Kastner

With such a dizzying array of parenting theories, tactics, and fads out there, how can any parent know which advice to follow? Help is here for parents who want to find a practical path that produces exceptional results: strong family bonds, calmer interactions, and healthy, happy kids who are set up for future success.

Suggested Meditations:

Jeff Warren. https://jeffwarren.org/explore/meditations/

10% happier. https://www.tenpercent.com/