ADHD & Hyperactivity
Helping Your Hyperactive/Attention Deficit Child
By John F. Taylor, Ph.D.
Comprehensive and multi-dimensional discussion of therapies, self-esteem, family impact, and more.

Taking Charge of ADHD
By Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D.
Provides new insight into preventing ADHD from becoming a major obstacle in a child’s life.

Behavior
Angry Kids, Frustrated Parents
Practical Ways to Prevent and Reduce Aggression in Your Children
By Terry L. Hyland and Jerry Davis, Ph.D.
Describes five levels of aggressive behavior and teaches parents how to use Crisis Teaching to calm themselves, teach children self-control, and discourage negative behaviors.

Dealing with Your Kids’ 7 Biggest Troubles
By Val J. Peter
Identifies and describes the seven destructive behaviors that can ruin your child’s life: lying, cheating, stealing, sexual acting out, drugs and alcohol, suicide and violence.

Good Friends are Hard to Find
By Fred Frankel, Ph.D.
Parents can use this handbook to learn to help their 5- to 12-year-olds make friends and solve problems with other children.

Kids are Worth it!
Giving Your child the Gift of Inner Discipline
By Barbara Coloroso
Gives parents constructive alternatives to reward and punishment for children of all ages.

The Manipulative Child
By E.W. Swihart, Jr., MD and Patrick Cotter, Ph.D.
Offers a clinically proven program for blocking manipulative behavior.

Parenting for Prevention
By David J. Wilmes
Advocates a positive approach rather than using scare tactics to help children avoid trouble with drugs and alcohol.

Divorce
Divorce is not the End of the World
Zoe’s and Evan’s Coping Guide for Kids
By Zoe Stern and Evan Stern with Ellen Sue Stern
Teenage children of divorced parents, Zoe and Evan offer advice about feelings, adjusting to new rules, dealing with birthdays, living with blended families, and more.

Family Rules
Helping Stepfamilies and Single parents Build Happy Homes
By Jeannette Lofas
Ideas for making meals, bedtime, after school, leisure, and busy mornings orderly, predictable, and manageable.

Protect your Children from the Pain of Divorce
How to Avoid the Legal and Emotional Pitfalls
By Barbara M. Massa
Guides parents through all stages of the separation and divorce process, focusing on potential damage to children.

The Single Mother’s Book
A Practical Guide to Managing Your Children, Career, Home, Finances, and Everything
By Joan Anderson
Stems from the experiences of the author, leader of the Single Mother’s Group, and a single mom herself.

Solo Parenting
Raising Strong and Happy Families
By Diane Chambers
Helps single parents meet not only the needs of their children, but their own needs as well.

Wonderful Ways to be a Stepparent
By Judy Ford and Anna Chase
Offers a helping hand, showing how to transform a difficult arrangement into one filled with love.

Families
Chores without Wars
By Lynn Lott and Riki Intner
Techniques for enlisting the support and cooperation of your entire family.

Raising our Children’s Children
By Deborah Daucette-Dudmon
Explores the social, legal, and emotional issues faced by grandparents as parents.

Learning & Education
7 Strategies for Developing Capable Students
By H. Stephen Glenn, Ph.D. and Michael L. Brock, MA
Outlines seven significant skills through which children can be guided to success in life.

Raising Lifelong Learners
A Parent’s Guide
By Lucy Calkins with Lydia Bellino
Shows mothers, fathers, guardians, and caretakers how their everyday behavior can excite a child’s interest in learning.

Your Home is a Learning Place
For Low-Literacy parents
Reading Level Grade: 3-4
Contains simple activities and strategies that can help parents enhance their children’s learning at home.

New Parents
Baby Basics
A Guide for New Parents
By Ann K. Blocker, RD
A reassuring guide that takes the worry out of first-time parenting and lets you spend time enjoying your brand new baby.

New Father Book
What Every New Father Needs to know to be a Good Dad
By Wade F. Horn, Ph.D. and Jeffrey Resenberg, M.S.W., of the National Fatherhood Initiative
Puts the new father right into the center of action with his newborn, offering real-world fathering tips from experienced dads.

Parents Of Teens
Adolescence
The Survival Guide for Parents and Teenagers
By Elizabeth Fenwick and Dr. Tony Smith
Helps both parents and teenagers survive the turbulent but exciting years of adolescence

Better Homes & Gardens New Teen Book
An A-to-Z Guide for Parents of 9- to 16-Year-Olds
By Wade F. Horn and Carol Keough
Offers problem-solving tips to help parents through the ups and downs of discipline, peer pressure, and much more.

Field Guide to the American Teenager
A Parent’s Companion
By Michael Riera and Joseph Di Prisco

How to talk to Teens about Really Important Things
Specific Questions and Answers and Useful things to Say
By Charles Schaefer, Ph.D. and Theresa DiGeronomo, M.Ed.
Offers parents a commonsense approach to knowing just what to say to teens and how and when to say it.

The Myth of Maturity
What Teenagers Need from Parents to Become Adults
By Terri Apter
Debunks outdated and misguided ideas about maturity.

Our Last Best Shot
Guiding our Children through Early Adolescence
By Laura Sessions Stepp
Helps parents navigate this critical age with their children.

 Teens in Turmoil
A Path to Change for Parents, Adolescents, and Their Families
By Carol Maxym, Ph.D. and Leslie B. York, M.A.
Offers real solutions and hope to parents who are discouraged

The Ten Most Troublesome Teen-age Problems
And How to Solve Them
By Lawrence Bauman with Robert Riche
With wisdom, suggestions, and illuminating family stories, gives you the tools you need to reach your teenager.

Wonderful Ways to Love a Teen
By Judy Ford
Tools to guide you in the art of relating to your teenager.

Reading & Math
101 Ways to Help Your Child Learn to Read and Write
Practical and enjoyable ideas for parents to help their kids develop reading & writing skills using everyday activities.
Spanish Version too!

Growing Up Reading
Learning to Read through Creative Play
By Jill Frankel Hauser
Shows busy parents how to build on two basic principals of learning to read: a child’s natural curiosity and a parent’s unique ability to influence that curiosity.

How to Teach Your Dyslexic Child to Read
A Proven Method for Parents and Teachers
By Bernice H. Baumer
Discusses learning disabilities and reveals how a dyslexic child should be taught from kindergarten through third grade.

Really Reading
10 Simple and Effective Methods to Develop Your Child’s Love for Reading
Offers engaging and creative activities for parents to do at home with your children to show them how much fun reading can be.

When Adolescents Can’t Read
Methods and Materials that Work
By Mary E. Curtis and Ann Marie Longo
Explains a remedial program for adolescents who are behind in reading as much as six grade levels.

Your Child can be a Great Reader
Improving Skills and Developing a Lifetime Love of Books
By Ricki Linksman, M.Ed.
Short, fun activities to do at home to help your child overcome every kind of reading problem.

Self-Esteem
200 Ways to Raise a Girl’s Self-Esteem
By Will Glennon
Simple advice and useful ideas for parents who want to help their daughters build positive self-images and develop to their full potential.

Self-Esteem
A Family Affair
By Jean Illsley Clarke
A blueprint for building a foundation of self-esteem in your child, at home, using the everyday interactions that occur between parents and children.

Basic Social Skills for Youth
A Handbook from Boys Town
Youth learn eight basic social skills, and the behavioral steps that lead to each skill.

A Good Friend
By Ron Herron and Val J. Peter
Gives children advice in such areas as the basics of conversation and friendship "do’s and don’ts."

One to One
Personal Counseling for Teens
Three audio cassettes offer teens advice for the real world on drugs, dating, suicide, faith, abuse, pain and suffering, from the caring professionals at Boys Town.

Our Boys Speak
Adolescent Boys Write about their Inner Lives
By John Nikkah
Revealing collection of essays, poems, diary entries, and stories covering topics from sex and dating to violence and video games.  

Preteen Pressures
8 guidebooks for young teens on street violence, stress, death, child abuse, alcohol, AIDS, divorce, & drug abuse

Real Boys’ Voices
By William S. Pollack, Ph.D. with Todd Shuster
The daily worlds and thoughts of young adolescent boys

Talking Points
4 books that look at some of the  issues facing today’s teens: Alcohol, Eating Disorders, Family Violence, and Divorce.

What’s Right for Me?
By Ron Herron and Val J. Peter
Enhances a teenager’s ability to empathize with other people and to take responsibility for his or her own behavior and future success.

Who’s in the Mirror?
By Ron Herron and Val J. Peter
Offers an easy and effective method of problem solving, which is particularly useful in dealing with negative peer pressure.

Teen Pregnancy
Everything you need to Know about Teen Fatherhood
By Eleanor H. Ayer
For middle-school students, this book helps young men prepare for the emotional, psychological, and financial concerns of fatherhood.

Everything you need to Know about Teen Motherhood
By Jane Hamamerslough
For middle-school students, this book provides helpful information about options and facts for each situation.

Coping with Teen Parenting
By Kay Beyer
Helps high-school students over the bumps of being a teen parent with experienced advice about basic parenting.

Toddlers & Young Children
601 Ways to be a Good Parent
By Michele Elliott
A practical handbook on raising children ages 4-12.

Common Sense Parenting
By Roy Burke, Ph.D., and Ron Herron
Rated "outstanding" by the Parent Council, this book, presents effective parenting techniques with lots of examples and 16 valuable social skills.
Spanish version, too

How to Talk to your Kids about Really Important Things
By Charles Schaefer, Ph.D. and Theresa DiGeronomo, M.Ed.
Helps parents find the words to talk to their kids and answer their questions with sound and age-appropriate answers.

Normal Children Have Problems, too
By Stanley Turecki, MD
Illustrates a wide range of normal problems and solutions.

Raising Boys
Why Boys are Different – and how to help them become Happy and Well-Balanced Men
By Steve Biddulph
Looks at the most important issues in boys’ development and discusses the warm, strong parenting that boys need.

Toilet Training
By Vickie Lansky
Hundreds of practical, parent-tested ideas guaranteed to take the trauma out of toilet training.

Touchpoints
The Essential Reference
By T. Berry Brazelton, MD
Offers parents sympathy and insight into the emotional, behavioral, cognitive and physical development of children birth through 6 years old.

Videos
ADHD: What can we do?
By Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D.
A 37-minute video introducing the most effective techniques for managing ADHD in the classroom, at home, and on family outings.

Boys Town Video Series for Parents
Each of the 11 videos in this series presents a common parenting problem or challenge, such as peer pressure, problem solving, and self-esteem, as well as effective parenting techniques to handle each situation.

DUI – Dead in 5 Seconds
A realistic portrayal of drinking and its effects on people whose lives have been affected by drunk driving accidents

Health and Social Issues
6-part series for teens on AIDS, drugs and alcohol, gangs, healthy lifestyles, resisting peer pressure, and dysfunctional families

Learning about Growing Up
3-volume series of insights from students, everyday people, doctors, counselors and teachers: From Boyhood to Manhood, From Girlhood to Womanhood, Sex & Responsibility  

Sex and Love
What’s a Teenager to Do?
Religion-based discussion of chastity and abstinence

Sex Talk
Sex, Love and Responsibility
Facts about unplanned pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS, and birth control 

Talking about Sex
A Guide for Families
A resource for “finding the words” to talk about sex with kids in the context of clear family values

When a Kid is Gay
Chronicles the struggles and support of a group of gay youth in Worcester, MA 

Spanish Language Books
Querida Mama, Querido Papa
Escrito desde el corazon de tu bebe
By Marie Foss Hafen
Easy-to-read advice for the new parent.

101 Ways to Help Your Child Learn to Read and Write
Practical and enjoyable ideas for parents to help their kids develop reading & writing skills using everyday activities.

La Crianza Practica de los Hijos
Spanish Edition
Translated by Margarite Cardenas
Rated "outstanding" by the Parent Council, this book, presents effective parenting techniques with lots of examples and 16 valuable social skills.

This special collection of parenting materials has been made possible with funding from Carroll County Family Connection Authority.

If you would like to make a donation to help enrich this important collection, or if you would like to suggest a good parenting resource to add to the collection, please contact:
Vickie Fulbright, Coordinator
Carroll County Family Connection Authority
601 Maple Street
Carrollton, Georgia 30117
(770) 214-2080
(770) 214-2085 (Fax)
vickie.fulbright@carrolltoncityschools.net