The books outlined below are just a small sample of some of the fabulous reads that we have for parents in our Parent Recource Library located at Keating Elementary. Not familiar with the location of the Parent Resource Library? Just stop by the library and our Librarian can point you in the right direction.
All books are available for parents to sign out.
| Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood
From The Culture Of Hyper-parenting Carl Honore |
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Book Description From the bestselling author of In Praise of Slow comes a fascinating and urgent look at childhood today and how we are raising a generation of overprogrammed, overachieving, exhausted children. For generations of children, growing up was a pretty simple business: you went to school for a few hours a day, you dabbled in hobbies and sports, and the rest of the time you played. |
| So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized
Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids Diane E. Phd Levin |
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Book Description The authors (Levin is a professor of education; Kilbourne, an authority on the effects of advertising) accuse the media of sexualizing children. Constantly, American children are exposed to a barrage of sexual images in television, movies, music and the Internet. They are taught young that buying certain clothes, consuming brand-name soft drinks and owning the right possessions will make them sexy and cool—and being sexy and cool is the most important thing. The authors offer advice on how parents can limit children's exposure to commercialized sex, and how parents can engage kids in constructive, age-appropriate conversation about sex and the media. |
| Breaking the Good Mom Myth: Every
Mom's Modern Guide to Getting Past Perfection, Regaining Sanity, and Raising
Great Kids Schafer |
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Book Description This book explains the psycho-social phenomena of how each person creates their own unique "good mother myth" and then examines why these myths are not only faulty, but could in fact lead to poor parenting, marital disaster and individual crisis. Her years of educating parents around these concepts afford Alyson the skill to take complex ideas and explain them to a lay audience in a compelling and easy to understand way. |
| Einstein Never Used Flash Cards:
How Our Children Really Learn-- And Why They Need to Play More and Memorize
Less Kathy Hirsh-Pasek |
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Book Description Authors and child psychologists Hirsh-Pasek, Golinkoff and Eyer join together to prove that training preschoolers with flash cards and attempting to hurry intellectual development doesn't pay off. In fact, the authors claim, kids who are pressured early on to join the academic rat race don't fair any better than children who are allowed to take their time. |
| The Bully The Bullied And The Bystander
Barbara Coloroso |
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Book Description With the spate of teen suicides and revenge killings of students in schools across North America, schoolyard bullying has become one of the greatest tragedies of our time. Sticks and stones may break bones, but name-calling turns out to be worse. As internationally renowned educator and author Barbara Coloroso points out in The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander, bullying today is crueller and more violent than ever. But breaking the cycle of violence involves more than merely recognizing the presence of bullying; it requires examining why and how a child becomes a bully or the target of a bully. |
| Honey, I Wrecked the Kids: When
Yelling, Screaming, Threats, Bribes, Time-outs, Sticker Charts and Removing
Privileges All Don't Work Alyson Schafer |
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Book Description Bringing the same perceptive and actionable advice that made Breaking the Good Mom Myth an international bestseller, TV host and psychotherapist Alyson Schafer again comes to the rescue of desperate parents everywhere. For those who've tried just about everything to discipline their kids, Honey, I Wrecked the Kids explains why children today really are resistant to traditional parenting methods and how only a new model for winning cooperation really works. |
| Explosive Child: A New Approach
for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible
Children Ross W Greene |
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Book Description A groundbreaking approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other intractable behaviours, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in this field, now updated to include the most recent research. Almost everyone knows an explosive child, one whose frequent, severe fits of temper leave his or her parents standing helpless in their fear, frustration, and guilt. |
| Facts of Life Growing Up Usborne |
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Book Description Growing; what happens at puberty?; how puberty starts; hair; breasts; female sex organs; female sex organs inside the body; periods; male sex organs; sex; contraception; food; exercise; smoking, drinking and other drugs; keeping clean; growing up and your feelings; AIDS. |
| What's Happening to Me for Boys Usborne |
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Book Description A sensitive, detailed and informative guide to male puberty, invaluable for young boys and parents alike, tackling key subjects from physical changes to emotional ones. Bright, stylish original colour illustrations and diagrams reveal everything young boys need to know about the changes they experience as they near puberty. Written in a witty yet factual and clear style that makes this confusing and tricky subject approachable. Written in conjunction with medical and counselling experts. |
| What's Happening to Me for Girls Usborne |
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Book Description A sensitive, detailed and informative guide to female puberty, this book will prove invaluable for both young girls and their parents alike, tackling key subjects from the physical changes that occur at this time to practical matters, such as buying your first bra. Bright, original colour illustrations and diagrams reveal everything young girls need to know about the changes they will experience as they approach puberty. The stunning artwork is accompanied by witty, yet clear and informative factual text that helps to demystify this often confusing and tricky subject. Approved by a team of top-notch consultants, this remarkable and reassuring book is entertaining, approachable and authoritative. |
| Why Shouldn't I Eat Junk Food? Usborne |
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Book Description This is an informative guide to two of the hottest debates surrounding children today: Junk food and healthy eating. Written in a conversational style, this book offers children an approachable source of information on key subjects such as food labelling, the effects of eating too much junk food, the importance of a varied diet and how food is grown. It is accompanied by the witty and vibrant illustrations of Adam Larkum. It is written in conjunction with child nutrition experts. |
| Roots of Empathy Mary Gordon |
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Book Description Mary Gordon creates a rich, rewarding classroom experience that fosters empathy within children. Bringing babies and children together creates a symbiotic loving environment that reduces aggression in children while increasing tolerance and emotional literacy. An interactive experience for parents, teachers, and children, the Roots of Empathy program aims to solve current and future problems in our society by teaching emotional literacy now. In "Roots of Empathy", the innovative, inspired book based on her groundbreaking research and success in actual classroom situations, Mary Gordon shares her vision of a nation of compassionate and caring children who will pass on their legacy of empathy to their own children. |
| How to Talk So Kids Will Listen
& Listen So Kids Will Talk Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish |
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Book Description How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk is an excellent communication tool kit based on a series of workshops developed by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. Faber and Mazlish (coauthors of Siblings Without Rivalry) provide a step-by-step approach to improving relationships in your house. The "Reminder" pages, helpful cartoon illustrations, and excellent exercises will improve your ability as a parent to talk and problem-solve with your children. The book can be used alone or in parenting groups, and the solid tools provided are appropriate for kids of all ages. |
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The New Speaking Of Sex: What Your Children Need To Know And When They Need To Know It
Meg Hickling |
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Book Description This updated and expanded version of the bestselling More Speaking of Sex continues to deliver no-nonsense facts in a humorous yet "scientific" manner. With new chapters related to the Internet and to multi-faiths, parents will find the latest and greatest information about sexual health. Hickling gently dispels misconceptions and unhealthy beliefs about sex by telling humorous stories from over 25 years of her experience working with children, families, teachers, and other professionals, and provides helpful information, guidelines, and examples. |
| Helping Your Kids Cope With Divorce
The Sandcastles Way M. Gary Neuman |
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Book Description Divorce is painful and confusing. Perhaps now more than ever, you want to give your child all the love, support, and guidance he or she needs, but everything seems harder and more complicated. Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way can help. Based on Gary Neuman''s phenomenally successful Sandcastles program, which has helped more than fifty thousand children cope with divorce, this warm, empathetic guide shows you: How to build a co-parenting relationship |
| Deceptively Delicious Jessica Seinfeld |
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Book Description It has become common knowledge that childhood obesity rates are increasing every year. But the rates continue to rise. And between busy work schedules and the inconvenient truth that kids simply refuse to eat vegetables and other healthy foods, how can average parents ensure their kids are getting the proper nutrition and avoiding bad eating habits?As a mother of three, Jessica Seinfeld can speak for all parents who struggle to feed their kids right and deal nightly with dinnertime fiascos. |
| The Read-Aloud Handbook Jim Trelease |
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Book Description This book is about more than reading aloud. It’s about time that parents, teachers, and children spend together in a loving, sharing way. (The Washington Post) The Read-Aloud Handbook promises to give parents, teachers, and all others who care about children, reading, and the pursuit of happiness new inspiration. (The Denver Post) |
| By Golly, Molly, You're Right Bobby Hawley |
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Book Description Were you ever bullied as an adult? A child? Maybe you or your child is being bullied right now. I think we have all had some experiences with this issue. Remember the hurt, the pain, the embarrassment, or the humiliation that was suffered? If you recall this, then By Golly, Molly, You’re Right is a must for you or your child to read. When Molly entered daycare she was a happy, outgoing little girl. Her experiences here turned her into a withdrawn, fearful little girl who became a target for bullies. As the years passed Molly’s shyness and fears attracted taunting, teasing and, on occasion, even physical attacks by other children. Molly moved to a new town and a new school when she was in grade five. Molly thought this might give her a fresh start but the first morning in the playground her worst fears were realized when she came face to face with Jessica. Jessica took very little time to zero in on Molly’s vulnerabilities and encourage others to reject her before they got to know the real Molly. Molly’s self-esteem was being crushed. Molly knew that this time she had to find a solution to her dilemma if she were to ever bring back the Molly who was left behind in daycare. You will be amazed at Molly’s solution when you read this story. |
| Easing the Teasing Judy S. Freedman |
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Book Description Easing the Teasing is a crucial reference for parents and educators who want to help teasing victims acquire the coping skills necessary to manage these painful incidents. Easing the Teasing provides elementary and junior high school kids with a repertoire of strategies to deflect and discourage teasing--including positive self-talk; ignoring; visualization; reframing the tease; complimenting or agreeing with the teaser; using humor; simply saying, "So?"; and asking adults for help. |
| Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson |
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Book Description Boys suffer from a too-narrow definition of masculinity, the authors assert as they expose and discuss the relationship between vulnerability and developing sexuality, the "culture of cruelty" boys live in, the "tyranny of toughness," the disadvantages of being a boy in elementary school, how boys' emotional lives are squelched, and what we, as a society, can do about all this without turning "boys into girls." "Our premise is that boys will be better off if boys are better understood--and if they are encouraged to become more emotionally literate," the authors assert. As a tool for change, Kindlon and Thompsom present the well-developed "What Boys Need," seven points that reach far beyond the ordinary psychobabble checklist and slogan list. |
| The Family Virtues Guide | |
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Book Description Simple Ways to Bring Out the Best in Our Children and Ourselves When you witness a small child haul off and smack another child unprovoked, the theory of innate morality seems to lose all validity. Moral education has always been the domain of religion, and Linda Kavelin Popov has culled 52 universal virtues from the world's religions, one for each week of the year. The resulting Family Values Guide is a workbook for the moral education of children that transcends differences of religion or culture. Each week, the book suggests, a family should gather to discuss a different virtue from the book, such as love, generosity, or patience, and the parents then emphasize the virtue for the following days, capitalizing on appropriate moments for education. |
| The Complete Idiot's Guide to Reading with Your Child | |
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Book Description Bring out the reader in every child. This one-of-a-kind guide helps parents raise their kids to be readers for life. Includes tips for moms and dads (even when English isn’t their first language) along with the other adults in their lives, suggests great titles to be read aloud, apart, and together, from birth to high school, and much, much more. |
| Child's Play: Rediscovering the
Joy of Play in Our Families and Communities by Silken Laumann |
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Book Description From one of Canada’s most inspiring and gifted sports heroes, an urgently needed guide to getting our kids active and healthy. Like many of us, Silken Laumann’s fondest childhood memories are of play: staying outside until that final call for dinner, neighbourhood-wide games of Capture-the-Flag and road hockey that went on for hours. But as a parent, Silken knows the world has changed. We are afraid to let our children out of sight, our streets don’t feel safe, neighbours don’t know and rely on each other like they used to. While we recognize the need for our kids to be active, our fears, along with our busy lives and the enormous societal pressure to (simultaneously) make athletes, academics, and artists out of our children, have led us to schedule their every activity, driving them to and from soccer practice, piano lessons, tutorials. We have forgotten just how important unstructured play is for our children’s development and well-being: It keeps kids healthy, creative and active; it teaches them valuable life skills and, most importantly, it lets our kids be kids, worry-free, unfettered. Child’s Play is a call for action, a guide to reconnecting with our kids, and a blueprint for building safe, supportive communities and healthy schools. Above all, it’s a book of simple ideas for parents desperate for change. |