Great Reads For Parents
Books that help you build your parenting skills.
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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)
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Dads and Daughters
Joe Kelly (2002)
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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)
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Girl Wars: 12 Strategies That Will End Female Bullying
Cheryl Dellasega, PhD and Charisse Nixon, PhD (2003)
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Queen Bees & Wannabees: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence
Rosalind Wiseman (2003)
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Stressed-Out Girls: Helping Them Thrive in the Age of Pressure
Roni Cohen-Sandler, PhD (2005)
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The Triple Bind: Saving Our Teenage Girls from Today’s Pressures
Stephen Hinshaw, PhD (2009)
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The Underground Guide to Teenage Sexuality: An Essential Handbook for Today’s Teens and Parents
Michael J. Basso (2003)
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Too Much of A Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in an Indulgent Age
Dan Kindlon, PhD (2001)
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Why Do They Act That Way?: A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen
David Walk, PhD (2004)
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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)
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Your Child's Weight: Helping Without Harming
Ellyn Satter, MS, LD, LCSW (2005)
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Your Dieting Daughter
Carolyn Costin (1996)
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You’re Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation
Deborah Tannen (2006)
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Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters, and the Pursuit of Thinness
Margo Maine, PhD (2004)
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Girls on Track
Molly Barker (2004)
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Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
Michael Thompson, PhD (2001)
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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)
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How to Say IT to Girls: Communicating with Your Growing Daughter
Nancy Gruver (2004)
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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)
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“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)
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Worry: Hope and Help For a Common Condition
Edward M. Hallowell, MD (1997)
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Meeting at the Crossroad: Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development
Lyn Mikel Brown & Carol Gilligan (1992)
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The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
Joan Jacobs Brumberg (1997)
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50 Great Tips, Tricks & Techniques To Connect With Your Teen
Debra Hapenny Ciabola, PhD (2003)
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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)
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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)
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101 Way to Help Your Daughter Love Her Body
Brenda Lane Richardson and Elane Rehr (2001)
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Alpha Girls: Understanding the New American Girl and How She is Changing the World
Dan Kindlon, PhD (2006)
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