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Reading books for parents

Source: Real-life issues for a parents resource guide, 2012 Nevus Outreach Conference, (updated as of 8/31/15), Allison D. Hurwitz, LPC, LSW, MSW, MA, ATR

  • How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
  • Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings By Kenneth Ginsburg
  • The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children from Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience by Martin Seligman
  • The Blessing Of A Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant ChildrenBy Wendy Mogel
  • The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness: Five Steps to Help Kids Create and Sustain Lifelong Joy By Edward Hallowell
  • Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling (available as of 9/15/15 on Amazon)
  • Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of ChildrenBy Michael Thompson, Catherine O’Neill-Grace, Lawrence Cohen
  • Raising Self Reliant Kids in a Self-Indulgent World By H. Stephen Glenn and Jane Nelsen
  • Pursuing the Good Life: 100 Reflections on Positive Psychology By Christopher Peterson
  • Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Soloman
  • Kiss that Frog!: 12 Great Ways to Turn Negatives into Positives in Your Life and Work by Brian Tracy

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