Patients and Families

Helpful Books For Parents

Quick reading that will help you and your kids be happy:

Faber, Adele and Elaine Mazlish. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk. Avon Books, 1982.

Faber, Adele and Elaine Mazlish. Siblings Without Rivalry. Avon Books, 1980.

Faber, Adele and Elaine Mazlish. Liberated Parents/Liberated Children: Your Guide to a Happier Family.

Feiden, Karen. Raising Responsible Kids. Prentice Hall Press, NY, 1991.

Wolf, Anthony. It’s Not Fair, Jeremy Spencer’s Parents Let Him Stay Up All Night. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995.

Whitman, Cynthia. Winning the Whining War and Other Skirmishes. Perspective Publishing, LA, 1991.

For parents of teenagers:
Tracy, Louise Felton. Grounded for Life?! Parenting Press Inc., 1994.

Wolf, Anthony. Get Out of My Life, But First, Will You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? Noonday Press, 1991.

To understand more about why children do what they do:
Brazleton, T. Berry. Toddlers and Parents. Dell Publishing, 1974.

Louise Bates Ames and Frances L. Ilg — Series of books by child’s age (ex. Your Two Year Old.) Gesell Institute of Child Development.

Books by Penelope Leach. (ex. Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Five.) Alfred Knop, Inc., 1985.

If your kids aren’t sleeping at night:
Ferber, Richard, MD. Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems. Simon and Schuster, 1985.

Last Update
September 11, 2008

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