Terry Fox E.S. School Council’s Parent Resource Library Book List

General Parenting
 

1. How to Talk So Kids will Listen & How to Listen So Kids Will Talk
2. Hold On To Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers
3. Kids are Worth It! Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline
4. Nurture the Nature: Understanding and supporting Your Childs Unique Core Personality
5. Breaking the Good Mom Myth
6. Momfidence – An Oreo Cookie never killed anybody and other Secrets of Happy Parenting.
7. They call me Dad: The Practical Art of Effective Fathering
8. The Dad’s and Daughter’s Togetherness Guide
9. Children Learn What They Live
10. Hearing is Believing
11. Parent Effectiveness training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children
12. It’s not Fair: Jeremy Spencer’s Parents Let Him Stay Up All Night
13. The Hurried Child: Growing up too fast too soon, 25th anniversary addition
14. Who’s in Charge: A Guide to Family Management
15. Laughter Love and Limits: Parenting for Life
16. How to Behave so Your Children Will Too!

Behaviour / Discipline
 

17. The Pressured Child: Freeing our Kids from Performance Overdrive and Helping them Find Success in School and Life
18. Positive Discipline: The classic Guide for Parents and Teachers to Help Children Develop Self-Discipline
19. Just because it isn’t wrong, doesn’t make it right
20. Are you shy?  (for 4-7 year olds)
21. The Kids Guide to Becoming the Best Kid you can be
22. The Confident Child
23. 1,2,3 Magic - Effective Discipline for Children 2-12
24. 7 Secrets of Highly Effective Teens
25. The Everything Parents Guide to Positive Discipline
26. The Parent’s Problem Solver: Smart Solutions for Everyday Discipline Dilemma and Behavioural Problems
27. Positive Discipline for Teenagers
28. Blue cheese breath and stinky feet:: how to deal with bullies (gr 4-7)
29. Say Goodbye to being shy
30. What am I feeling?
31.

Bullying

32. Don’t be a bully Billy
33. Bully Blockers Club
34. Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander
35. Tale of Sir Dragon

Family Life

36. Mom’s House, Dad’s house for Kids: Feeling at Home in one home or two
37. Dinosaurs Divorce
38. Helping Your Kids cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way
39. Mom’s House, Dad’s House – Making Two Homes for your Child
40. When Mom and Dad Divorce – A kids guide
41. Siblings Without Rivalry
42. Divorce is not the end of the world: Zoe and Evan’s Guide (8-14)
43. Helping your Kids Cope with Separation and Loss
44. Fun on the run: 324 Instant Family Activities
45. Blending families: A Guide for Parents, Stepparents, Grandparents and Everyone Building a Successful New Family

Special Needs

46. Raising Your Spirited Child
47. Quirky Kids:  Understanding and Helping Your Child Who Doesn’t Fit In – When to Worry and When Not to Worry
48. It’s so much work to be your friend: Helping the child with Learning Disabilities find Social Success
49. Keys to parenting your Anxious Child
50. Everything Parent ‘s guide to kids with Asperger’s
51. Could it be Autism? A Parent’s Guide to the First Signs and the Next Steps
52. Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents
53. Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with ADD from Childhood through Adulthood
54. The Child with Special Needs: Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth
55. Overcoming Dyslexia: A new and Complete Science based Program For Overcoming Reading Problems at Any Level
56. Parents guide to Developmental Delays
57. The Alphabet War – A Kids Book on Dyslexia
58. Survival guide for Parents of Gifted Kids
59. Everything Parents Guide for Children with Autism
60. Parent’s guide to Learning Disabilities
61. The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome
62. The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder
63. The Parent’s Guide to Speech and Language Problems

Health and Nutrition

64. Changes in you and me: a book about puberty mostly for girls
65. Changes in you and me: a book about puberty mostly for boys
66. The new speaking of sex: What they need to know and when they need to know it
67. What’s the big secret about?
68. It’s So Amazing.  A Book About Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies and Families
69. The Power of Play.  How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier and Healthier Children.
70. Get a Health Weight for Your child.  A Parent’s Guide to Better Eating and Exercise
71. Winning the Food Fight: How to Introduce Variety into Your Child’s Diet
72. Understanding and Managing your child’s food allergies
73. Feeding the Brain: How Foods Affect Children
74. Gimme Five! Kid friendly Recipes and Tips for Helping your Child Enjoy Eating Fruits and Vegetables. 
75. Raising Drug Free Kids: 100 tips for parents
76. Lunch boxes
77. KidShape
78. The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kid’s Favourite Meals

Gender Specific

79. The Wonder of Boys
80. The Wonder of Girls: Understanding the Hidden Nature of Our Daughters
81. Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
82. Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Life
83. Raising Cain:  Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
84. The Minds of Boys
85. Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
86. Disappearing Girl: Learning the Language of Teenage Depression
87. Girls will be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters

Learning / Education Related

88. The Resistant Learner: Helping Your Child Knock Down the Barriers to School Success
89. 7 Keys to Comprehension: How to Help your Kids Read it and Get it
90. Boys and Girls Learn Differently
91. Overcoming Underachieving:  A Simple Plan to Boost Your Kids’ Grades and End the Homework Hassles
92. Same homework - New plan: How to Help Your Disorganized Kid Sit Down and Get it Done
93. Homework Sweet Homework: Parent’s Guide to Stress-free Homework and Studying Strategies that Work
94. Homework Talk! The Art of Effective Communication about your Child’s Homework
95. Your Child’s Growing Mind:  Brain Development from Birth to Adolescence
96. Annie’s Plan: Taking Charge of School Work and Homework
97. Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom
98. 100 Best Books for Children: A parent’s guide to making the right choices for your young reader (toddler to preteen)
99. The Bilingual Edge
100. Book Crush: For Kids and Teens – recommended reading for every mood moment and interest

Tween Issues

101. Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul: 101 Stories of Changes, Choices and Growing up for Kids ages 9+
102. Tweens – What to Expect from and How to Survive
103. Everything Tween

Miscellaneous

104. Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World
105. Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Financially Responsible Children
106. Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood
107. Moving with Kids: 25 Ways to Ease Your Family’s Transition to a New Home
108. 10- Minute Life Lessons for Kids: 52 Fund and Simple Games and Activities to Teach Your Child Honesty, Love, Trust and other Important Values
109. Fun on the run! 324 Instant Family Activities

Audio / Visual Resources

110. 123 Magic: Managing Difficult Behaviour in Children 2-12
111. More 123 Magic: Encouraging Good Behaviour, Independence and Self-Esteem
112. Winning at Parenting without beating your kids (CD)
113. Battling Bullies
114. Unconditional Parenting
115. Parenting Successful Children