Parenting Reading List

Mother and child reading

General Parenting Resources

Babies First Year
The Baby Book by William & Martha Sears

What to Expect the First Year by Heidi Markoff and Arlene Eisenberg

Your Baby's First Year Week by Week by Glade Curtis. & Judith Schuler

Challenging Children
The Explosive Child by Ross W. Greene


Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

Child Development
American Academy of Pediatrics Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 by Steven P.Shelov


Your Baby and Child from Birth to Age Five: New Version by Penelope Leach


Your Child's Growing Mind: Brain Development and Learning from Birth to Adolescence by Jane M. Healy

Discipline
The Discipline Miracle: the Clinically Proven System for Raising Happy, Healthy, and Well-Behaved Kids by Linda Pearson

Discipline the Brazelton Way by T. Berry Brazelton

The No-Cry Discipline Solution : Gentle Ways to Encourage Good Behavior without Whining, Tantrums, and Tears by Elizabeth Pantley


No More Misbehavin': 38 Difficult Behaviors and How to Stop Them by Michele Borba

Toilet Training
American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Toilet Training by Mark Wolraich

The No-Cry Potty Training Solution : Gentle Ways to Help Your Child Say Good-bye to Diapers by Elizabeth Pantley

Toilet Training: the Brazelton Way by T. Berry Brazelton

Special Needs Children

ADHD
ADHD: A Complete Authoritative Guide by Michael Reiff


Parenting Children with ADHD by Vincent Monastra

Aspergers Syndrome

Oasis Guide to Aspergers Syndrome: Advice Support, Insight by Patricia Romanowsk Bashe

Autism
Autism Sourcebook: Everything You Need to Know about Diagnosis, Treatment, Coping, and Healing by Karen Siff Exkorn


Could it be Autism?: a Parent's Guide to the First Signs and Next Step
by Nancy D.Wiseman

Engaging Autism: Using the Floortime Approach to Help Children Relate, Communicate and Think by Stanley I. Greenspan

Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: the Groundbreaking Program for the 4-a Disorders by Kenneth Bock and Cameron Stauth

Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Child: the Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder by Demitri Papolos

Parenting a Bi-polar Child What To Do and Why byGianni L. Faedda and Nancy B. Austin.

Understanding the Mind of Your Bipolar Child: the Complete Guide to the Development, Treatment, and Parenting of Children with Bipolar Disorder by Gregory T. Lombardo

Dual Diagnosis
Kids in the Syndrome Mix of ADHD, LD, Asperger's, Tourette's Bipolar and More!! by Martin L. Kutscher


Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnosis of Gifted Children and Adults: ADHD, Bipolar, OCD, Asperger's, Depression and other Disorders by James T. Webb

Down Syndrome
Babies with Down Syndrome: a New Parent's Guide by Karen Stray-Gunderson

Learning Disabilities

The Misunderstood Child: Understanding and Coping with Your Child's Learning Disabilities by Larry B. Silver.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Help for Children and Adolescents by Mitzi Waltz

Psychiatric Issues
Straight Talk about Psychological Testing for Kids by Ellen Braaten & Gretchen Felopulos


Straight Talk about Psychiatric Medications for Kids by Timothy E. Wilens

Sensory Integration Dysfunction
Out of Sync Child by Carol Stock Kranowitz

Sensational Kids : Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder by Lucy Jane Miller

Special Education
How to Compromise with Your School District Without Compromising Your Child: a Practical Field Guide for Parents of Children with Developmental Disorders and Learning Disabilities by Gary Mayerson

Mislabeled Child: How Understanding Your Child's Unique Learning Style Can Open Doors to Success by Fernette Eide


Wrightslaw: from Emotions to Advocacy by Pam Wright

Prepared by Carol Fortier-Rodriguez, Youth Services Librarian , 5/06; Updated 6/07