Throughout your child’s development, and through each Preschool class, you will address significant parenting issues that will both challenge and frustrate you. Through in-depth discussion with your instructor, teacher and peers at monthly parent education meetings, we will address these issues and look at ways of building effective parenting strategies and skills. As we work through specific topics, you will have the opportunity of practicing solutions in the Preschool classroom, with the guidance and understanding of the teacher,the Parent Instructor, and of other parents.
Below is a suggested reading list that covers most of the topics that will be raised through-out you and your child’s involvement in the Preschool. Specific issues can be discussed in more detail at parent ed meetings, or privately, one-on-one with your instructor.
General Parenting
Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, A Sourcebook of Strategies for the First Five Years
by Laura Davis and Janis Keyser
The Six Stages of Parenthood
by Ellen Galinsky
Gesell Institute Books: Your One Year Old, Your Two Year Old, etc.
by Ames & Ilg
Family First
by Dr. Phil McGraw
Raising Compassionate, Courageous Children
by Dr. Janice Cohn
Your Baby & Child from Birth to Age Five
by Penelope Leach
The Ten Greatest Gifts I Give My Children
by Steven W. Vannoy
Positive Parenting and Discipline
Beyond Behavior Management:The Six Life Skills Children Need to Thrive in Today’s World
by Jenna Bilmes
Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline
by Becky A. Bailey, Ph.D.
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Kids Can Cooperate
by Elizabeth Crary
Love & Limits
by Elizabeth Crary
Parenting Tips & Tools
by Elizabeth Crary
Pick Up Your Socks
by Elizabeth Crary
Positive Discipline for Preschoolers
by Jane Nelson Ed. D.
Positive Discipline for the First Three Years
by Jane Nelson Ed. D.
Without Spanking or Spoiling
by Elizabeth Crary
Multiple Intelligences and Emotional Intelligences
The Dance of Anger
by Harriet Goldhor Lerner, Ph.D.
The Heart of Parenting, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child
by John Gottman Ph.D.
How to Raise a Child with a High EQ
by Lawrence E. Shapiro Ph.D.
Multiple Intelligences
by Howard Gardner
Specialized Books
The Highly Sensitive Person
by Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.
Love and Anger, The Parent Dilemma
by Nancy Samalin
Raising a Daughter
by Jeanne Elium and Don Elium
Raising a Son
by Jeanne Elium and Don Elium
Raising Your Spirited Child
by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
Real Boys
by William Pollack, Ph.D.
Remote Control Childhood? Combating the Hazards of Media Culture
by Diane E. Levin
The Shelter of Each Other
by Mary Pipher Ph.D.
Siblings Without Rivalry
by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
The Sleep Book for Tired Parents
by Rebecca Huntley MSW
Television and the Lives of Our Children
by Gloria DeGaetano, M.Ed.
What Should I Tell the Kids?
by Ava L. Siegler, Ph.D.