PARENT LENDING LIBRARY BOOK LIST
The following books are available to all parents in
CCSD. If you are interested in loaning a
book, please contact your school’s parent facilitator. If the book is not at your school, the
facilitator will request it from the school that currently has the book. The books can be picked up by you in person
or sent home with your child.
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Topic/Interest |
Title of Book |
Description |
Location |
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Academics |
Bright Minds, Poor Grades |
This book provides a ten
step program to
understanding and motivating your underachieving child. |
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Academics |
Bringing Math Home |
A Parent’s guide to
elementary school math with dozens of innovative hands on project ideas to
help your child understand math. |
Bells Elementary, Cottageville
Elementary |
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Academics |
How to Get you Child to Love
Reading |
An indispensable resource
that will empower even the busiest parents and the most unengaged children to
include literature in their lives. |
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Academics |
How to Help Your Child Read
and Write |
This book offers a
comprehensive approach to enable you to best support your child in the
essential development of reading and writing. |
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Academics |
School Sense: How to Help
your Child Succeed in Elementary School |
A question and answer guide
to parents most frequently asked questions about helping their child succeed. |
Northside Elementary, |
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Academics |
Your Child’s Strengths |
A guide for parents and
teachers to discover, develop and use the strengths of children rather than
the weaknesses. |
Bells Elementary |
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Adoption |
Raising Adopted Children |
This book addresses the
pressing adoption issues of today, such as open adoption, international adoption,
transracial adoption and answers to parents’ most
frequently asked questions about adoption. |
Bells Elementary |
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Attention Problems |
10 Days to a Less Distracted
Child |
A fresh, highly effective
and completely original take on handling inattentive children including those
with ADHD and other conditions. |
Northside Elementary |
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Attention Problems |
Overcoming ADHD |
This book steers away from
the pitfalls of labeling, or of simply stamping out symptoms with medication
and demonstrates how children can confidently learn to engage with others,
attend to what they see and hear and maintain their focus on the problems at
hand. |
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Attention Problems |
The Gift of ADHD: How to
Transform you Child’s Problems into Strengths |
This book presents evidence
that ADHD may not be a hindrance, but an asset and explains how you can help
your child develop control and enhance the five gifts of ADHD (creativity, attunement to nature,
interpersonal intuition, energetic enthusiasm, and emotional sensitivity) |
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Behaviors |
Is it a Big Problem or a
Little Problem? When to Worry, When
Not to Worry and What to Do |
Almost every child, at some
point during their early years, won’t listen, will throw a tantrum, will be
mean or aggressive, shy or withdrawn, a picky eater and more. Learn when to worry, when not to worry and
what to do. This book is essential
guide to decoding your child’s behavior. |
Cottageville Elementary |
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Boys |
Better Dads, Stronger Sons |
The relationship between a
father and son is like none other.
This book will help you build that relationship and help our son grow
into everything he is meant to be. |
Bells Elementary |
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Boys |
Helping boys Succeed in
School |
A practical guide for
parents and teachers to channel natural interests of boys, keep them engaged
in school, and increase their commitment to school success. |
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Boys |
Raising Confident Boys |
100 practical, effective
tips for those who want to help boys be noticed, admired, understood and
accepted. |
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Boys |
The Secret Lives of Boys |
An uncensored look into
boyhood in the 21st
century. |
Ruffin Middle |
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Divorce |
Helping Your Kids Cope with
Divorce the |
Divorce is painful and
confusing. This book helps you and
your children cope with divorce in a warm and empathetic way. |
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Divorce |
How to Parent with Your Ex |
How to Parent with Your Ex
provides support for the difficult situation the non-residential parent is in
and practical, to-the-point advice about how to reap the most benefits from
the visitation time available.
Conversely, it addresses the role of the residential parent and the
need to understand the changing relationships the child is going through. By focusing on the child, both parents are
able to solidify a special relationship with the child and maintain
necessary, positive communication with the ex-spouse. |
Northside Elementary |
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Emotions |
Helping you Kids deal with
Anger, Fear and Sadness |
No parents want to see their
children struggle, especially with dark emotions. Parents will gain keen insights into the
cause of these intense moods and be able to develop sound principles in dealing
effectively with them. |
Cottageville Elementary, |
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Emotions |
She’s Gonna
Blow – Real Help for Moms Dealing with Anger |
Yes, you do love your kids –
and other moms struggle with feelings of anger just like you do. A “been there, done that” mom turns to
hilarious scenes of everyday life with kids into a practical guide for anyone
who is wrestling with down to earth realities. |
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Emotions |
When Your Child is Hurting |
This book discusses how to
help your child overcome life’s everyday hurts and survive the ups and downs
of life. |
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Games/Activities |
MegaSkills |
A guide of hands on
techniques and kid friendly activities to teach children confidence, effort,
initiative, caring, motivation, responsibility, perseverance, teamwork,
problem solving, common sense, focus and respect. |
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Games/Activities |
Unplugged Play |
A parent-friendly
encyclopedia of hundreds of battery-free, screen-free, chirp-and-beep-free
games that stretch the imagination, spark creativity, build strong bodies and
forge deep friendships. |
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Girls |
Between Mother and Daughter |
The special and loving bond
between mothers and daughters doesn’t have to vanish with the onset of the
teenage years. Listen to Judy Ford and
her teenage daughter as they discuss issues that often lead to conflict and
how to solve problems and grow closer together. |
Colleton Middle |
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Girls |
Reclaiming our Daughters:
What parenting a pre-teen taught me about real girls |
A fresh perspective on
pre-teen and teenage girls that finally brings a message of hope and optimism
about girls today |
Ruffin Middle |
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Girls |
Strong Fathers, Strong
Daughters |
To become a strong,
confident woman, a daughter needs her fathers
attention, protection, courage and wisdom.
This book shares ten secrets every father needs to know win order to
strengthen or rebuild bonds with his daughter and shape her life, and his
own, for the better. |
Northside Elementary |
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Girls |
You’d Be So Pretty If… |
Your daughter’s body is
beginning to change, and she’s not sure what to make of it. Meanwhile, you’re facing dilemmas: you’re
trying to lose weight, but don’t want her to think she has to. Or maybe you’re unhappy with your looks –
so how do you help your daughter love hers?
This book explains the powerful effects that a mother’s self-image has
on her daughter and how parents can break the cycle of “bad body image” |
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Grandparent Parenting |
Grandparents as Parents |
A survival guide for raising
a second family. This book discusses
the personal, social, bureaucratic, legal and
support aspects of raising grandchildren. |
Colleton Middle |
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Grandparent Parenting |
To Grandmas House, We…Stay |
A roadmap to guide
grandparents through the uncharted territories of parenting a second
generation. |
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Parenting |
151 Ways to Help your Child
Have a Great day at School |
Easy to use tips and
activities to help your child get ready for a fun and productive school day. |
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Parenting |
Ask SuperNanny |
Supernanny Jo Frost answersa specific
questions about all the hot button issues that parents face. |
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Parenting |
For Parents Only |
This book takes a look
inside the minds of teens and preteens to help parents tackle those things
they don’ “get” about their kids. |
Bells Elementary |
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Parenting |
Have a New Kid By Friday |
This book is a 5 day action
plan that helps you change your child’s behavior. |
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Parenting |
Helicopters, Drill Sergeants
and Consultants |
This book discusses
parenting styles and the messages each style sends |
Bells Elementary |
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Parenting |
Helping Your Socially
Vulnerable Child |
This book provides a
clinically proven set of coping tools and social strategies that you can
tailor to your child’s unique social and emotional needs to promote
confidence, independence and social ease. |
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Parenting |
I’m not Your Friend, I’m
Your Parent |
This book discusses the
various pressures and difficulties of being a parent and offers techniques on
how to set the boundaries your kids need…and really want. |
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Parenting |
It Takes a Parent |
This book discusses the
culture of pushover parents, how it is hurting our children and what to do
about it |
Cottageville Elementary |
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Parenting |
Making Children Mind without
losing yours |
This book equips parents
with seven principles of Reality Discipline along with questions and answers
and real-life examples to guide parents |
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Parenting |
Nanny 911 |
The nannies from the hit
television show, Nanny 911, share their wisdom with overwhelmed parents
desperate for foolproof parenting advice at their fingertips. |
Northside Elementary |
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Parenting |
Organizing the Disorganized
Child |
This book offers solutions
to the messy backpack problem and morning and nighttime routines as well as
ways to improve study skills, note-taking, and time
management skills. |
Northside Elementary |
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Parenting |
Parenting the Strong Willed
Child |
Whether it is not following
instructions, temper tantrums, or other disruptive behaviors, this book
brings you effective strategies for improving your child’s behavior with
lasting results. |
Cottageville Elementary |
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Parenting |
Parenting with Love and
Logic |
After laying out the
principles of “Love and Logic,” the authors provide “parenting pearls,” which
are strategies for applying the method to actual situations such as back-seat
battles in the car, homework, and keeping bedrooms clean. |
Northside Elementary |
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Parenting |
Raise Them Up |
The real deal on reaching
unreachable kids |
Ruffin Middle |
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Parenting |
Raising Children You Can
Live With |
This book gives you answers
to parenting questions, provides phrases to use in difficult situations,
instructs how to turn sour interactions into pleasant ones and outlines
specific strategies for success. |
Bells Elementary |
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Parenting |
Raising Kids Who Care |
Raising kids who care about
themselves, their world and each other |
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Parenting |
Raising Respectful Children
in a Disrespectful World |
Sound advice that will transform
your family into responsible citizens |
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Parenting |
Raising Unselfish Children
in a Self-Absorbed World |
This book reassures parents
that it is never to late to reshape your child’s
heart and discusses how to gently “bump” them off center to focus on others. |
Bells Elementary |
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Parenting |
Raising your Spirited Child |
This book will help you
understand your child’s – and your own – temperamental traits, discover the
power of positive, rather than negative, labels, copy with the tantrums and
power struggles, and plan for success. |
Bells Elementary |
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Parenting |
Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn |
From iPods to smartphones to Facebook,
today’s youth are more plugged in than ever before and it’s becoming
increasingly clear that they do not respond to traditional teaching
methods. What should parents and
educators expect, socially and academically, from their wired children? |
Colleton Middle, |
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Parenting |
Screamfree Parenting |
Whether you scream at your children
or not, you no doubt feel anxious about them and their choices. You worry how they’ll turn out. This book show you
how to positively control all your reactive responses to the anxieties of
parenting. |
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Parenting |
Siblings without Rivalry |
This book guides the way to
family peace and tranquility with humor and compassion for both parents and
children. |
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Parenting |
Teaching Kids to care:
Nurturing Character and Compassion |
This book illuminates each
of five essential touchstones (interdependence, connection, perspective,
gratitude and inspiration) to offer parents a fresh and comprehensive
framework with which to raise kids who care about each other. Simple suggestions to reinforce lessons in
3 minutes, 3 hours, or 3 days. |
Northside Elementary |
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Parenting |
The 7 Worst Things (good)
Parents Do |
This book examines the seven
most ineffective and self-defeating behaviors that parents display again and
again with suggestions of how you, the parent, can change those behaviors
immediately. |
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Parenting |
The Five Love Languages |
Kids desperately want to
know how much you love them. But if
you don’t know their special “love languages,” you might as well be speaking
gibberish. Every child (and adult)
expresses and receives love best through one of five communication styles
(quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of services, physical
touch). |
Cottageville Elementary,
Black Street Early |
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Parenting |
The Kazdin
Method for Parenting the Defiant Child |
This book shatters decades worth of myths about child rearing and leads
parents through a new method of leading your children. |
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Parenting |
The Successful Child |
No doubt your child’s
well-being is of paramount importance to you.
Yet you alone cannot determine who your child will become. There are myriad forces beyond your control
that shape your child’s development.
How best can you, as your child matures, refrain his trust and exert a
positive influence? |
Bells Elementary |
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Parenting – Mom |
I was a Really Good Mom
Before I Had Kids |
Fresh from the front lines
of motherhood comes a book that uncovers the guilty
secrets of moms today. This book
diagnoses the craziness and offers real solutions ,
so that mothers can step out of the madness and learn to love motherhood as
much as they love their kids. |
Cottageville Elementary |
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Single Parenting |
Raising Great Children on
Your Own |
Raising kids on your own is
hard work. This book provides
practical and proactive ideas that you can use to guide your kids, take care
of yourself, build strong connections, manage your household and make good
decisions. |
Cottageville Elementary |
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Single Parenting |
Single Parenting that Works |
Discover six keys that will
transform your perspective as a single-parent and help you create a plan
tailored to you and your family. |
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Stepfamily |
Keys to Successful
Step-Fathering |
A commonsense practical
guide to help step-fathers ease into their role. This book has suggestions
for getting along with stepchildren, building lasting relationships, managing
conflict, establishing authority and communicating in a positive way so that
you can fully enjoy the rewards of being a stepfather. |
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Stepfamily |
Living in a stepfamily
Without Getting Stepped On |
This book discusses how a
stepfamily can blend a family without breaking it and come out of the process
not only a survivor, but a winner. |
Colleton Middle |
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Stepfamily |
Stepmotherhood |
How to survive without
felling frustrated, left out, or wicked.
This book brings together countless insights and sound advice based on
the latest research and interviews with experts in the field. |
Ruffin Middle |
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Stepfamily |
The Smart Step-Family |
This book explains the myth
of the blended family and provides practical realistic solutions to the
issues that stepfamilies face. |
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Stepfamily |
The Smart Step-Mom |
In today’s complicated
stepfamily, the stepmom often doesn’t know where to turn for help. This book offers hope, encouragement and
practical information you need for the stepmom journey. |
Northside Elementary |
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Teenagers |
20 Tough Questions Teenagers
Ask…And 20 Tough Answers |
An answer guide, without the
lecture, to some of teenager’s toughest questions. |
Ruffin Middle |
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Teenagers |
A Parents Guide to Helping
Teenagers in Crisis |
The crises teens face range
from something as mild as getting caught cheating to getting in trouble with
the law. It may be your child in
crisis or a friend of your child, which is affecting your teen as well. Either way, when crisis happens, you want
to be prepared. In addition to
learning appropriate responses to crisis, you will learn how to prevent some
of these issues – and how to get professionals involved when you need them |
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Teenagers |
And Words Can Hurt Forever –
How to Protect Adolescents from Bullying, Harassment, and Emotional Violence |
This book uncovers the
staggering extent and consequences of schoolyard bullying and classroom
hostility, flat-out contradicting the nursery rhyme that “words can never
hurt you.” This book teaches parents
to accept reality, challenge old beliefs and ally with other parents to take
on the school system. |
Colleton Middle |
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Teenagers |
Be a Parent, Not a Pushover |
A guide to raising happy,
emotionally healthy teens. This book
explains in plain English how to find balance between giving your child
freedom and discipline, love and limits. |
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Teenagers |
Conversations on the Go |
Clever questions to keep
teens and grown ups talking. |
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Teenagers |
Dad, If You Only Knew… 8
Things Teens want to tell Their Fathers (But Don’t) |
It doesn’t matter if you
have the most picture perfect, ideal-in-ever-way
teen or one who’s full swing in rebellion.
That teen you love is a “riddle wrapped in a mystery”. No father can know what his teen is really
thinking. Get an open, honest glimpse
inside the teen mind. |
Colleton Middle |
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Teenagers |
Distractions: Real Talk
about Gangs, Drugs, Violence and Sex |
Raw truth from a man who has
experienced the distractions which youth are going through today. Parents and youth can learn from the
authors past. |
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Teenagers |
Get Out of My Life, but
first could you drive me and Cheryl to the mall? |
A parents
guide to the new teenager. Gives
parents a road map to the rocky and ever changing terrain of contemporary
adolescence. |
Ruffin Middle |
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Teenagers |
Girl in the mirror – Mothers
and Daughters in the Years of Adolescence |
This book teaches us that our
daughters’ adolescence isn’t a time to be gotten through or survived; instead
it is a tremendous opportunity not just to foster social, emotional and
intellectual growth, but to forge new connections between us and our
daughters. Explores the ways in which
our own parenting skills must evolve as our daughters move into a new stage
of growth. |
Ruffin Middle |
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Teenagers |
How to Survive Your Teenager |
Congratulations! Yu have a
teenager. Hundreds of parents who have
been there before you share stories, strategies, anecdotes, and advice, humor
and wisdom on critical survival topics. |
Ruffin Middle |
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Teenagers |
Just Say Know: Talking with
Kids about Drugs and Alcohol |
This book gives parents,
educators and health professionals, powerful tools to talk with kids about how
alcohol and other drugs interact with their minds and bodies. Includes information on a wide range of
drugs in a simple, easy to read format. |
Colleton Middle |
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Teenagers |
My Life as a Middle School
Mom: My Kids May Be Deductible, But They’re Still Taxing |
An A to Z guide for frazzled
parents raising adolescents. |
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Teenagers |
Parent to Parent: A humorous
look at the teen scene |
Nothing soothes like humor,
and this clever collection of poetry is guaranteed to reduce your “drive
crazy by teenagers” stress level |
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Teenagers |
Positive Discipline for
Teenagers: Empowering your Teen and Yourself Through Kind and Firm Parenting |
This book shows you how to
break the destructive cycle of guilt and blame and work toward greater
understanding and communication with your adolescents. |
Colleton Middle |
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Teenagers |
Staying Connected to Your
Teenager – How to keep them talking to you and to hear what they’re really
saying |
A book of sage advice that will help frustrated parents
reconnect with their teenager and keep that connection even in today’s
often-crazy world. |
Colleton Middle |
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Teenagers |
Take Out Your Nose Ring,
Honey, We’re Going to Grandma’s |
This book is a reassuring
antidote to today’s epidemic of negative stereotypes about teenagers: a
collection of real-life inspiring and amusing stories from scores of true
experts, POA’s. parents of
adolescents. How to hang in, hold on
and let go of your teen. |
Colleton Middle |
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Teenagers |
The Sacred Flight of the
Teenagers: A Parent’s Guide to Stepping Back and Letting Go |
Parents discover how to help
their teenagers accept themselves, become independent, and grow into
responsible adults. |
Colleton Middle |
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Teenagers |
The Second Family: Dealing
with Peer Power, Pop Culture, The Wall of Silence and Other challenges of
Raising today’s Teens |
This book uses real-life,
sometimes graphic examples to bare the truth about the world of adolescence
today and to illuminate the new set of rules by which kids operate. |
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Teenagers |
The Teen Whisperer: How to
Break through the Silence and Secrecy of Teenage Life |
More than just a plan to
rein in bad behavior, this book deconstructs the emotional barriers that
adolescence has placed between you and your child, helping you work with teens
on their level – instead of simply treating them as subordinates. Both you and your teen will learn to offer
each other mutual respect and kindness as you work together to heal the
troubled hearts of your family. |
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Teenagers |
Totally Wired: What Teens
and Tweens are Really Doing Online |
An inside guide to what
teens are really doing on the Internet and with technology today. Includes topics such as social networking,
blogging, cyberbullying, and much more! |
Ruffin Middle |
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Teenagers |
Unhappy Teenagers – A way
for parents and teachers to reach them |
This book provides a
groundbreaking method that all parents can use with confidence and love to
keep a strong relationship with their child. |
Ruffin Middle |
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Teenagers |
Why Do They Act That Way? A
survival guide to the adolescent brain for you and your teen |
This book explains exactly
what happens to the human brain on the path from childhood into adolescence
and adulthood. Includes sample
dialogues that help teen and parent talk civilly and constructively with each
other, behavioral contracts and Parent Survival kits for advice on issues
such as curfew, disrespectful language and actions and bullying. |
Ruffin Middle |
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Teenagers |
Yes, Your Teen Is Crazy –
Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind |
This book clearly explains
how parents can encourage and guide their kids through the tumultuous teenage
years. |
Colleton Middle |