Recommended Resources
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Parenting
The Whole Brain Child provides parents with the latest understanding of childhood development, emphasizing what children need for optimum social, intellectual, and neurological development. The book provides practical parenting advice to help parents learn how to set healthy limits while also developing social skills and facilitating optimal brain growth.
1-2-3 Magic is an essential guide for any parenting struggling with children’s behavior issues ages 3-12. If you happened to not start off particularly good at setting limits, this is your essential guide to getting children to listen without drama. And, it works if you can do it calmly, without drama, and consistently. It is a very gentle approach to regaining control, especially for children with impulse control issues.
Raising Happiness teaches parents how to raise their children in a way that promotes a lifetime of happiness. The book provides evidence-informed guidelines for raising children who know how to maintain their own happiness, even when life does not go their way.
Brain Storm provides a brain-based understanding of the often challenging and painful teen years. Dan Siegel provides a new way to think of the teens changing brain and how it relates to risk-assessment, motivation, and identity develop and offers parents useful suggestions for how to deal with this frequently turbulent time.
Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child provides parents with a developmental understanding of emotional intelligence and provides guidance on how to promote it a various stages of a child’s development. As most parents quickly discover, compassion, empathy, kindness, friendship, manners, and civility are not inborn—but taught.
Saving Our Sons helps parents learn how to help their boys thrive during a time where they are more and more likely to under-perform in school, lack emotional maturity, and struggle with forming healthy relationships.
1-2-3 Magic is an essential guide for any parenting struggling with children’s behavior issues ages 3-12. If you happened to not start off particularly good at setting limits, this is your essential guide to getting children to listen without drama. And, it works if you can do it calmly, without drama, and consistently. It is a very gentle approach to regaining control, especially for children with impulse control issues.
Raising Happiness teaches parents how to raise their children in a way that promotes a lifetime of happiness. The book provides evidence-informed guidelines for raising children who know how to maintain their own happiness, even when life does not go their way.
Brain Storm provides a brain-based understanding of the often challenging and painful teen years. Dan Siegel provides a new way to think of the teens changing brain and how it relates to risk-assessment, motivation, and identity develop and offers parents useful suggestions for how to deal with this frequently turbulent time.
Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child provides parents with a developmental understanding of emotional intelligence and provides guidance on how to promote it a various stages of a child’s development. As most parents quickly discover, compassion, empathy, kindness, friendship, manners, and civility are not inborn—but taught.
Saving Our Sons helps parents learn how to help their boys thrive during a time where they are more and more likely to under-perform in school, lack emotional maturity, and struggle with forming healthy relationships.
Adolescents
Brain Storm provides a brain-based understanding of the often challenging and painful teen years. Dan Siegel provides a new way to think of the teens changing brain and how it relates to risk-assessment, motivation, and identity develop and offers parents useful suggestions for how to deal with this frequently turbulent time.
Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child provides parents with a developmental understanding of emotional intelligence and provides guidance on how to promote it a various stages of a child’s development. As most parents quickly discover, compassion, empathy, kindness, friendship, manners, and civility are not inborn—but taught. And today’s society creates many challenges for parents to do this easily and successfully.
Untangled provides parents guidance with helping their daughters successfully launch into adulthood, addressing issues such difficult emotions, dating, and self care.
The Dating Radar guides you in identifying common personality disorder types early in the dating process.
Girls and Sex Author Peggy Ornstein shares what she learned after interviewing 40 high school girls and 40 college girls about their sexual experiences. This book provides parents with essential information for helping their children (boys and girls) through their sexual development, and provides girls with a better road map for navigating a complex and often painful journey.
Saving Our Sons helps parents learn how to help their boys thrive during a time where they are more and more likely to under-perform in school, lack emotional maturity, and struggle with forming healthy relationships.
Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child provides parents with a developmental understanding of emotional intelligence and provides guidance on how to promote it a various stages of a child’s development. As most parents quickly discover, compassion, empathy, kindness, friendship, manners, and civility are not inborn—but taught. And today’s society creates many challenges for parents to do this easily and successfully.
Untangled provides parents guidance with helping their daughters successfully launch into adulthood, addressing issues such difficult emotions, dating, and self care.
The Dating Radar guides you in identifying common personality disorder types early in the dating process.
Girls and Sex Author Peggy Ornstein shares what she learned after interviewing 40 high school girls and 40 college girls about their sexual experiences. This book provides parents with essential information for helping their children (boys and girls) through their sexual development, and provides girls with a better road map for navigating a complex and often painful journey.
Saving Our Sons helps parents learn how to help their boys thrive during a time where they are more and more likely to under-perform in school, lack emotional maturity, and struggle with forming healthy relationships.
Couples
Hold Me Tight was written by the developer of one of the only two evidence-based treatments for distressed couples and provides an outstanding roadmap for maintaining a health relationship. This book is essential for anyone wanting a stable, long-term relationship.
Reconcilable Differences is the second of two evidence-based treatments for distressed couples. This book helps partners to examine their differences and find new ways to understand each other, communicate better, and solve problems effectively. This is another essential read for anyone wanting to improve the quality of their current or future relationships.
Reconcilable Differences is the second of two evidence-based treatments for distressed couples. This book helps partners to examine their differences and find new ways to understand each other, communicate better, and solve problems effectively. This is another essential read for anyone wanting to improve the quality of their current or future relationships.
Divorce
Rebuilding provides a guide book from the initial shock of divorce to creating a new, vibrant future. The authors provide guidance in coping with the difficult emotions related to divorce, such as grief, guilt, rejection, loneliness, and trust.
Getting Past Your Break Up provides a non-nonsense guide for recovering from a potentially conflictual breakup by helping you set clear boundaries that allow you to focus on healing. The book also addresses how to make life easier for children during the divorce.
The Co-Parenting Handbook guides parents through the separation and divorce process with a focus on minimizing negative effects on the children. It covers common areas of conflict, such as holidays, finances, new partners & public spaces.
Saving Your Second Marriage Before It Starts guides one through a series of nine questions to reflect on whether a person is ready to start again. It educates on essential relationship skills correlated with happy marriages.
The Divorce Workbook for Children has 40 activities to help children discuss their feelings and cope with divorce. It can also be used as a reference for discussing divorce with your children.
Two Homes is a storybook that helps younger children adjust to common changes that are part of divorce.
Getting Past Your Break Up provides a non-nonsense guide for recovering from a potentially conflictual breakup by helping you set clear boundaries that allow you to focus on healing. The book also addresses how to make life easier for children during the divorce.
The Co-Parenting Handbook guides parents through the separation and divorce process with a focus on minimizing negative effects on the children. It covers common areas of conflict, such as holidays, finances, new partners & public spaces.
Saving Your Second Marriage Before It Starts guides one through a series of nine questions to reflect on whether a person is ready to start again. It educates on essential relationship skills correlated with happy marriages.
The Divorce Workbook for Children has 40 activities to help children discuss their feelings and cope with divorce. It can also be used as a reference for discussing divorce with your children.
Two Homes is a storybook that helps younger children adjust to common changes that are part of divorce.
