Recommended Books & Websites

There are a number of excellent readings and resources available regarding parenting
recommended by Austin Child Guidance Center staff.

Recommended Parent Books:

ADHD

  • Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete Authoritative Guide for Parents (Revised Edition) by Russell Barkley

Communication

  • How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
  • Kids Cooperation: How to Stop Yelling, Nagging, and Pleading and Get Kids to Cooperate by Elizabeth Pantley

Defiance

  • The Explosive Child: A New Approach to Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Childrenby Ross Green
  • How to Deal With Your Acting Up Teenagerby Robert T. Bayard, Ph.D. and Jean Bayard, Ph.D.
  • The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child: With No Pills, No Therapy, No Contest of Willsby Allen Kazdin

Discipline

  • 1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 (123 Magic)by Thomas Phelan

Divorce

  • Boys and Girls Book about Divorceby Richard A. Gardner, M.D.
  • Keys to Single Parentingby Carl Pickhardt, Ph.D.
  • The Parents Book About Divorceby Richard A. Gardner, M.D.

Sibling Rivalry

  • Siblings without Rivalryby Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

Young Children’s Books about Moods and Feelings:

Below are a list of books for children to read or for parents to read to them. Be sure to check out your library

  • Attention, Girls! A Guide to Learn All About Your ADHD by Patricia O. Quinn
  • Mind Over Basketball: Coach Yourself to Handle Stressby Jane Weierbach and Elizabeth Phillips-Hershey
  • My Mom and Dad Dont Live Together Anymore: A Drawing Book For Children of Separated or Divorced Parentsby Judith Aron Rubin, Ph.D.
  • How to Take the Grrrr Out of Anger by Elizabeth Verdick and Marjorie Lisoviskis
  • Jessica and the Wolf: A Story for Children Who Have Bad Dreamsby Ted Lobby, MSW
  • A Terrible Thing Happened: A Story for Children Who Have Witnessed Violence or Traumaby Margaret M. Holmes
  • I Want Your Moo: A Story for Children About Self-Esteem by Marcella Bakur Weiner and Jill Neimark
  • HUGSby Jez Alborough
  • When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angryby Molly Bang
  • The Way I Feelby Janan Cain
  • The Brand New Kidby Katie Couric
  • Baby Facesby Dutton
  • Sad Days, Glad Days: A Story About Depressionby Dewitt Hamilton
  • On Monday When It Rained by Cherryl Kachenmeister
  • Today I Feel Silly: And Other Moods That Make My Dayby Jamie Lee Curtis
  • What Are YOU So Grumpy About?By Tom Lichtenheld
  • Where the Wild Things Areby Maurice Sendak
  • My Many Colored Daysby Dr. Seuss
  • Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Dayby Judith Viorst
  • Love and Kissesby Sarah Wilson

Recommended Websites: