Articles

In this section you can download the PDFs of articles written by our members on a variety of topics relating to the journey of self and other discovery. Feel free to copy and/or distribute them, including the appropriate attribution if you do.

Books for Parents and Families

Self-esteem

• Self-Esteem - A Family Affair by Jean Illsley Clarke
• How to Give Your Child a Great Self-Image by Dr. Debora Phillips with Fred Bernstein
• Keep Talking Mother-Daughter Guide to the Pre-Teen Years by Lynda Madison, Ph.D.
• "Why Doesn't Anybody Like Me?" A Guide to Raising Socially Confident Kids by Hara Estroff Morano
• Reviving Ophelia - Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher, Ph.D.
• Growing a Girl - 7 Strategies for Raising a Strong, Spirited Daughter (birth to 12 years) by Dr. Barbara Mackoff
• Real Boys by William Pollack, Ph.D.
• A Fine Young Man: What Parents, Mentors and Educators Can do to Shape Adolescent Boys into Exceptional Men by Michael Gurian
• Perfectionism by Miriam Adderholt-Elliott

Difficult Kids and ADHD

• Moving Beyond ADD/ADHD by Rita Kirsch Debroitner and Avery Hart
• The Difficult Child by Stanley Turecki, M.D.
• Parenting a Child with a Behavior Problem by Penny Paquette and Cheryl Gerson Tuttle, M.Ed.
• Driven to Distraction (from childhood through adulthood) by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. and John J. Ratey, M.D.
• Survival Strategies for Parenting your ADD Child by George T. Lynn
• Bodily Harm: The Breakthrough Healing Program for Self-Injurers by Lader and Conterio

Divorce

• "Why Did You Have to Get a Divorce? And When Can I Get a Hamster?" A Guide to Parenting Through Divorce by Anthony W. Wolf, Ph.D.
• Difficult Questions Kids Ask [and are too afraid to ask] About Divorce (for toddlers-teenagers) by Meg F. Schneider and Joan Zuckerberg, Ph.D.
• Voices of Children of Divorce by Dr. David Royko

General Parenting Books

• Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
• How to Talk So Kids Will Learn by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
• Emotionally Intelligent Parenting by Maurice J. Elias, Ph.D., Steven E. Tobias, Psy.D., and Brian S. Friedlander, Ph.D.
• 1-2-3 Magic by Thomas W. Phelan, Ph.D.
• Stepfamily Realities by Margaret Newman
• Parenting Toward Solutions by Linda Metcalf, Ph.D.
• When Mothers Work by Jan K. Peters

Death and Grieving

• Living with Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• On Children and Death by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• Questions and Answers on Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• Working it Through by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• Coping When a Parent Has Cancer by Linda Strauss
• My Mommy Has Cancer by Carolyn Stearns-Parkinson
• How to Help Children Through a Parent's Serious Illness by Kathleen McCue
• My Family is Living with Cancer by Marco Products
• The Perfect Stranger's Guide to Funerals and Grieving Practices edited by Stuart M. Matlins
• The Grieving Child by Helen Fitzgerald
• The Grieving Teen by Helen Fitzgerald
• Talking to Children About Death by Earl Grollman