Great Reads For Parents

Books that help you build your parenting skills.

Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships
Ruth Bell

Doing It Right: Making Smart, Safe, and Satisfying Choices about Sex
Bronwen Pardes

How to Talk with Teens about Love, Relationships, and Sex
Amy Miron

Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era
Boston Women's Health Book Collective

What if someone I know is gay? Answers to Questions about What it Means to be Gay and Lesbian
Eric Marcus

Almost Grown: Launching Your Children from High School to College
Patricia Pasick, M.Ed., PhD (1998)
Review on Amazon

Dads and Daughters
Joe Kelly (2002)
Review on Amazon

Get Out of My Life But First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl To The Mall?: A Parent’s Guide to the New Teenager
Anthony Wolf, PhD (2002)
Review on Amazon

Girl Wars: 12 Strategies That Will End Female Bullying
Cheryl Dellasega, PhD and Charisse Nixon, PhD (2003)
Review on Amazon

Queen Bees & Wannabees: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence
Rosalind Wiseman (2003)
Review on Amazon

Stressed-Out Girls: Helping Them Thrive in the Age of Pressure
Roni Cohen-Sandler, PhD (2005)
Review on Amazon

The Triple Bind: Saving Our Teenage Girls from Today’s Pressures
Stephen Hinshaw, PhD (2009)
Review on Amazon

The Underground Guide to Teenage Sexuality: An Essential Handbook for Today’s Teens and Parents
Michael J. Basso (2003)
Review on Amazon

Too Much of A Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in an Indulgent Age
Dan Kindlon, PhD (2001)
Review on Amazon

Why Do They Act That Way?: A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen
David Walk, PhD (2004)
Review on Amazon

Why Girls Talk and What They’re Really Saying: A Parent’s Survival Guide to Connecting with Your Teen
Susan Morris Shaffer & Linda Perlman Gordon (2005)
Review on Amazon

Your Child's Weight: Helping Without Harming
Ellyn Satter, MS, LD, LCSW (2005)
Review on Amazon

Your Dieting Daughter
Carolyn Costin (1996)
Review on Amazon

You’re Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation
Deborah Tannen (2006)
Review on Amazon

Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters, and the Pursuit of Thinness
Margo Maine, PhD (2004)
Review on Amazon

Girls on Track
Molly Barker (2004)
Review on Amazon

Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
Michael Thompson, PhD (2001)
Review on Amazon

In the Company of Women: Indirect Aggression Among Women: Why We hurt Each Other and How to Stop
Pat Heim, PhD and Susan Murphy, PhD, MBA (2001)
Review on Amazon

How to Say IT to Girls: Communicating with Your Growing Daughter
Nancy Gruver (2004)
Review on Amazon

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Lives of Adolescent Girls
Mary Pipher, PhD (1994)
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Ophelia’s Mom: Loving and Letting Go of Your Adolescent Daughter
Nina Shandler, EdD (2001)
Review on Amazon

“I’m Like, So Fat!”: Helping Your Teen Make Healthy Choices about Eating and Exercise in a Weight-Obsessed World
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, PhD
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Crazy Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap!
Edward M. Hallowell, MD (2006)
Review on Amazon

Worry: Hope and Help For a Common Condition
Edward M. Hallowell, MD (1997)
Review on Amazon

Meeting at the Crossroad: Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development
Lyn Mikel Brown & Carol Gilligan (1992)
Review on Amazon

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
Joan Jacobs Brumberg (1997)
Review on Amazon

50 Great Tips, Tricks & Techniques To Connect With Your Teen
Debra Hapenny Ciabola, PhD (2003)
Review on Amazon

Staying Connected to Your Teenager: How to Keep Them Talking to You and How to Hear What They’re Really Saying
Michael Riera, PhD (2003)
Review on Amazon

The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries about the Teenage Brain Tell us About Our Kids
Barbara Strauch (2003)
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How Much is Enough: Everything You Need to Know to Steer Clear of Overindulgence and Raise Likeable, Responsible and Respectful Children
Jean Illsely Clare, PhD (2004)
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Surviving Ophelia: Mothers Share their Wisdom on Navigating the Tumultuous Teenage Years
Cheryl Dellassega, PhD (2001)
Review on Amazon

101 Way to Help Your Daughter Love Her Body
Brenda Lane Richardson and Elane Rehr (2001)
Review on Amazon

Alpha Girls: Understanding the New American Girl and How She is Changing the World
Dan Kindlon, PhD (2006)
Review on Amazon

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