PARENTING WEB RESOURCES

Pennsylvania Parents Resource and Information Center

http://papirc.org

Family Strengthening Coalition

http://www.indyfamilies.org

 

PARENTING BOOKS

The following book list has been compiled by State College Area School District Family Outreach Services.  More information can be found at:  http://www.scasd.org/scasd/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=308619

 

Dealing With Disappointment: Helping Kids Cope When Things Don’t Go Their Way, Elizabeth Crary. Shows how to teach children self-calming and problem-solving strategies with step-by-step guides and games.

Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka. Helps parents to teach their children better ways of expressing frustration, anger, jealousy, and other emotions. Sheds new light on seemingly inevitable parent/child conflicts.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, Stephen R. Covey. This book helps families improve the quality of their relationships with the people they care about the most.

Help! The Kids Are At It Again: Using Kids’ Quarrels to Teach “People” Skills, Elizabeth Crary. This book helps parents reduce their roles as referrees when conflicts between children arise by providing ideas for teaching children how to get attention, deal with feelings, establish and protect boundaries, and solve problems.

Homework Without Tears, Lee Canter. Helps parents establish a homework routine that is more positive, rewarding, and motivating.

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. Hundreds of examples of effective versus ineffective dialog between parent and child helps parents deal with a variety of situations. This works!

Kid Cooperation: How to Stop Yelling, Nagging and Pleading and Get Kids To Cooperate, Elizabeth Pantley. This book is packed with positive discipline techniques that work!

Kids Can Cooperate, Elizabeth Crary. Helps parents teach children to get along with others. Focuses on developing problem-solving skills between children.

Parenting: A Skills Training Manual, Louise Guerney, Ph.D. Helps parents practice skills for dealing with children. Originally used at PSU in parenting classes.

Pick Up Your Socks...and Other Skills Growing Children Need, Elizabeth Crary. How to encourage children to become responsible for chores, pets, lessons, and homework. Charts and guides show when most children can participate.

Raising Your Spirited Child, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka. A guide for parents whose child is MORE: intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent, and/or energetic. If this is your child, you must join the other parents who say this is THE book to read!

Siblings Without Rivalry, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. Helps parents make a positive difference in sibling relationships and develop harmony at home.

Strengthening Stepfamilies, Elizabeth Einstein. Helps people understand the time, skill, and patience required to develop into a successful blended family.

Without Spanking or Spoiling, Elizabeth Crary. Offers 32 alternatives to spanking, over 150 tips for solving the most common behavior problems, and a guide to using time-out and the 5-step problem-solving process.

The Wonder of Boys, Michael Gurian. What parents, mentors and educators can do to shape boys into exceptional men.

You and Your Adolescent: A Guide for Parents of 10 - 20 Year Olds, Laurence Steinberg and Ann Levine. An indespensible guide that spans the pre-teen years through young adulthood. This helps parents prepare for puberty and up.