Resources available:

To borrow a video or book, send me a note via kids mail and I'll send it to you. Please return it in a week or two.

Videos available for you to borrow:

How to Talk so Kids will Listen - A set of 6 videos

Topics:

Helping Kids Deal with Their Feelings

Engaging Cooperation

Alternatives to punishment

Encouraging Antonmy

Praise

Freeing Children from Playing Roles

2000 Parent to Parent Parenting For Safe and Drug Free Youth A set of 7 videos/cds

Topics:

Today's Toxic Culture

Put Yourself in the Way

Awareness is your Best Friend

Remember ther Difference

Expect and Inspect

Never Cry Alone

Traps to Avoid

At A Loss For Words - How to help those you care for in a maiscarriage, stillbirth or newborn death expericence.

Footprints on Our Hearts - How to cope after a miscarriage, stillbith or newborn death.

No One Cries the Wrong Way - Helping Children Cope with Grief, Suffering and Death

Dying to be Thin - You can be too thin. The disturbing truth behind anorexia, bulimia and America's body obsession.

How To Help Your Child Succeed in  School - Strategies and guidance for parents of children with ADHD and/or Learning Disabilities.

Learn at Every Turn - This video is packed with ideas that parents can use to reinforce school lessons and stimulate learning at home For families with chidlren ages 4-12.

Books:

The Working Parents Handbook by Katherine Murray

Reflections for Working Parents by Carol A. Turkington

The Essence of Parenting by Anne Johnson and Vic Goodman

The Parent's Toolshop by Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW

Successful Single Parenting by Gary Richmond

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Parenting a Teenager by Kate Kelly

Enter At Your Own Risk 8 Secrets for Parenting threough the Middle SChool Years by Patty Roth

Growing and Changing A Handbook for Preteens by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman (Checked out to parents to use with your preteen.)

A Parent's Guide to Young Adolscents by Bob Hilliard

It's perfectly Normal Changing Bodies, growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health (Checked out to parents to use with your child.)

Girl Stuff A Survival Guide to growing Up by Margaret Blackstone and Elissa Haden Guest (Checked out to parents to use with your child.)

The Care & Keeping of You The Body Book for Girls from the American Girl Library (Checked out to parents to use with your child.)

The "What's Happening to My Body?" Book for Boys by Lynda Madaras (Checked out to parents to use with your child.)

What's Going On Down There Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask by Karen Gravelle

(Checked out to parents to use with your child.)

Keys To Parenting Your Five Year Old by Marti White

Your Five-Year-Old by Louise Bates Ames

Your Six-Year-Old by Louise Bates Ames

Your Seven-Year-Old by Louise BatesAmes

Your Nine-Year-Old by Louise Bates Ames

Your Ten-to Fourteen-Year-Old by Louis Bates Ames

When Your Child is 6-12 by John M. Drescher

Helping Children Cope With Separation and Loss by Claudia Jewett Jarratt

How To Talk So Kids Can Learn By Adele Faer and Elaine Mazlish

Sibling's Without Rivalry by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

Sibling Rivalry by Seymore V. Reit

Syhness by Philip G. Zimbardo

You and Your Only Child by Patrician Nachman

Stess and Your Child by Bettie B. Youngs

The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman

The Unwritten Rules of Friendship Simple Strategies to Help Your child make friends by Natalie Madorsky Elman

Best Friends, Worst Enemies Understanding the Social Lives of Children by Michael Thompson

The Unmotivated Child Helping your underachiever become a successsful student by Natalie Rathvon

The Difficault Child by Stanley Turecki

Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brainbed World by Jeffrey Freed

Understanding Girls with AD/HD by Kathleen G. Nadeau

Answers To Distraction by Edward M. Hallowell

Is Your Child Hyperactive? Inattentive? Impulsive? Distractible? by Stephen Garber

Educational Care by Mel Levine

Keeping A Head In School A student's book about Learning Abilities and Learing Disorders by Mel Levine