Forty Carrots' Favorite Parenting Books

Resources for Parents & Educators

 

General

Caring for Your Baby and Young Child, American Academy of Pediatrics

Louise Bates Ames Series of Books: Your One-Year–Old through Your Ten-to-Fourteen YearOld

The Irreducible Needs of Children, Brazelton and Greenspan

Darn Good Parenting, Jan Faull

Your Baby, Your Child, Penelope Leach

Touchpoints: The Essential Reference, T. Berry Brazelton

Between Parent and Child, Hiam Ginott

Take Back Your Kids, William Doherty

Bullying

The Bully, The Bullied, and the Bystander: From Preschool to High School, Barbara Colorosso

Communication

Nurturing Resilience In Our Children, Dr. Robert Brooks

Discipline

Kids Are Worth It!, Barbara Coloroso

NO: Why Kids – of All Ages – Need to Hear It and Ways Parents Can Say It, Dr. David Walsh
Discipline

Raising a Self-Disciplined Child, Dr. Robert Brooks

There's Gotta Be A Better Way: Discipline That Works!, Becky Bailey

Without Spanking or Spoiling, Elizabeth Crary

Children: The Challenge, Rudolph Dreikurs

Discipine Without Shouting or Spanking, Jerry Wyckoff and Barbara Unell

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Faber & Mazlish

Feelings

Dealing with Disappointment: Helping Kids Cope When Things Don’t Go Their Way, Elizabeth Crary

Kid, Parents, and Power Struggles, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

First Feelings, Stanley Greenspan

Newborns

Darn Good Advice, Baby, Jan Faull

Siblings

Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too, Faber & Mazlish

Sleep

Sleepless In America, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

Temperament

Raising Your Spirited Child, Mary Sheedy-Kurcinka

Living With The Active Alert Child, Linda Budd

Know Your Child: An Authoritative Guide for Today's Parents, Chess, Stella & Alexander Thomas

Toilet Teaching

Mommy, I Have to Go Potty, Jan Faull