Parenting Books

I finally got a list together of my Parenting Books.

Without further ado:

GENERAL HEALTH:

1. How to Raise a Healthy Child…In Spite of Your Doctor, Robert S. Mendelsohn
2. Wise Woman Herbal Childbearing Year, Susan Weed
3. The Healthiest Kid in the Neighborhood, Sears & Sears
4. A Mother’s Guide to Raising Healthy Children Naturally, Sue Frederick
5. Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health, Susan B. Roberts & Melvin B. Heyman
6. Homeopathy for Pregnancy, Birth & Your Baby’s First Year, Miranda Castro

BABY BOOKS:

1. The Baby Sleep Book, Sears & Sears
2. The Baby Book, Sears & Sears
3. The No-Cry Sleep Solution, Elizabeth Pantley
4. Sleepless in America, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

DISCIPLINE BOOKS:

1. Positive Discipline, The First Three Years, Jane Nelsen, Cheryl Erwin & Roslyn Duffy
2. The Discipline Book, Everything You Need to Know to Have a Better-Behaved Child – From Birth to Age Ten, Sears & Sears
3. Unconditional Parenting, Alfie Kohn (hardcover and paperback)
4. Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline, The 7 Basic Skills Turning Conflict into Cooperation, Becky A. Bailey
5. The Happiest Toddler on the Block, Harvey Karp
6. Raising Your Spirited Child, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka (I have 2 copies; one 1998 and one 2006)
7. Liberated Parents, Liberated Children, Your Guide to A Happier Family, Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
8. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
9. How to Talk So Teens Will Listen & Listen So Teens Will Talk, Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
10. Siblings Without Rivalry, Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
11. Whole Child/Whole Parent, Polly Berrien Berends
12. Common Sense Discipline, Dr. Roger Allen & Ron Rose
13. Kids are Worth It! Barbara Coloroso
14. Playful Parenting, Lawrence J. Cohen
15. Parenting Your Out-Of-Control Teenager, Scott P. Sells
16. Ten Most Troublesom Teen-age Problems and How to Solve Them, Lawrence Bauman
17. Now I Know Why Tigers Eat Their Young, Dr. Peter Marshall
18. Raising a Thinking Preteen, Myrna B. Shure
19. Get Out of My Life, but first could you drive me and Cheryl to the mall? Anthony E. Wolf
20. Between Parent & Child, Dr. Haim G. Ginott
21. Active Parenting of Teens, Michael Popkin
22. Parent Efffectiveness Training, Dr. Thomas Gordon

GENERAL PARENTING:

1. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, Stephen R. Covey
2. Last Child in the Woods, Saving Our children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, Ricahrd Louv
3. Attachment, John Bowlby
4. Real Boys, William Pollack
5. Driven to Distraction, Edward M. hallowell & John J. Ratey
6. Baby Days, Barbara Rowley

CHILD DEVELOPMENT:

1. Bright Start; Understand and Stimulate your child’s development from birth to 5 years, Dr. Richard C. Woolfson
2. No Contest, The Case Against Competition, Alfie Kohn

SPEECH

1. Late Talking Children, Thomas Sowell
2. The Einstein Syndrome, Tomas Sowell

HOMESCHOOLING RELATED:

1. The Unprocessed child, Living Without School, Valerie Fitzenreiter
2. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Homeschooling, Marsha Ransom
3. Slow & Steady Get Me Ready, June R. Oberlander
4. A Parent’s Guide to Montessori Play & Learn, Lesley Britton
5. The How and Why of Homeschooling, Ray E. Ballmann