Parenting Resources

Websites:

Common Sense Media - We rate, educate, and advocate for kids, families, and schools

The Partnership at Drugfree.org:

Advice for Parenting Teenagers - Be prepared for the pre-teen and teenage years. Advice and helpful tips about what is coming next and how to handle the new thing your teenager is doing now.

PBS Parents - Learn more about your child's social life, how to help your kids cope with the challenges, heartbreaks, and the joys of making friends, losing them, and making friends again.


Books:

Positive Discipline by Jane Nelsen Ed.D.


Books available on loan from CEMS Counseling Department

Cliques - Eight Steps to Help Your Child Survive the Social Jungle by Charlene C. Giannetti.

The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids by Madeline Levine

Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World by Rosalind Wiseman

Life Strategies For Teens (Life Strategies Series) by Jay McGraw

Real Boys : Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood by William Pollack

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide by Sean Covey

Get Out of My Life, But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall?: A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager by Anthony E. Wolf

And Words Can Hurt Forever: How to Protect Adolescents from Bullying, Harassment, and Emotional Violence Paperback by James Garbarino (Author of Lost Boys) & Ellen deLara

Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children by Michael Thompson & Cathe O'Neill-Grace

Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Kindlon & Michael Thompson

Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection among Girls by Lyn Mikel Brown

The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander: From Preschool to HighSchool--How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle by Barbara Coloroso