Parenting Teens: Resource List

Books for Teens

• Life Strategies for Teens; by Jay McGraw; Fireside Books, 2000

Books for Adults

• A Parent's Guide To The Teen Years: Raising Your 11 to 14 Year Old In The Age of Chat Rooms and Navel Rings; by Susan Panzarine; Facts On File, 2000
• "But I'm Almost 13!" An Action Plan for Raising a Responsible Adolescent; by Kenneth Ginsburg; Contemporary Books, 2002
• Closing the Gap: A Strategy for Bringing Parents and Teens Together; by Jay McGraw; Fireside, 2001
• Crisis-Proof Your Teenager; by Kathleen McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman; Bantam Books, 1991.
• Get Out of My Life, But First Could You Take Me and Cheryl to the Mall?; rev ed; by Anthony Wolf, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002
• The Good Enough Teen: Raising Adolescents with Love and Acceptance (Despite How Impossible They Can Be); by Brad Sachs; Perennial Currents, 2005
• Launching Years: Smart Parenting During Senior Year to College Life; by Laura Kastner; Three Rivers Press, 2002
• Mom, I Hate My Life! Becoming Your Daughter's Ally Through the Emotional Ups and Downs of Adolescence; by Sharon Hersh, 2004
• Stop Negotiating With Your Teen: Strategies for Parenting Your Angry, Manipulative, Moody, or Depressed Adolescent; by Janet Edgette ; Perigee, 2002
• How to Parent Your "Tweenager"; Understanding the In-Between Years of Your 8 to 12-Year Old; by Mary M. Simon; T. Nelson, 1995
• I'm Not Mad, I Just Hate You! A New Understanding of Mother-Daughter Conflict; by Roni Cohen-Sandler; Penguin, 2000
• Now I Know Why Tigers Eat Their Young; by Peter Marshall; Prima Publ. 1994
• Parenting Teenagers; by Don Dinkmeyer and Gary D. McKay; American Guidance Service, 1998.
• Parenting Teens With Love & Logic; by Foster Cline; Pinon Press, 1992
• Positive Discipline for Teenagers: Empowering Your Teens and Yourself Through Kind and Firm Parenting; by Jane Nelsen; Prima, 2000
• Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence; by Rosalind Wiseman; Crown, 2002
• Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman; Jeanne Elium; Ten Speed Press, 1994
• Raising a Son: Parents and the Making of a Healthy Man; by Jeanne Elium; Celestial Arts, 1997
• The Roller-Coaster Years: Raising Your Child Through the Maddening Yet Magical Middle School Years; by Charlene Giannetti; Broadway Books, 1997
• Please Stop the Rollercoaster! How Parents of Teenagers Can Smooth Out the Ride; 2nd ed; by Sue Blaney; ChangeWorks Publ, 2004
• Staying Connected to Your Teenager: How to Keep Them Talking to You and How to Hear What They're Saying; by Michael Riera; Perseus, 2003
• The Roller-Coaster Years: Raising Your Child Through the Maddening Yet Magical Middle School Years; by Charlene Giannetti; Broadway Books, 1997
• Take Out Your Nose Ring, Honey, We're Going to Grandma's: Hanging In, Holding On and Letting Go of Your Teen; by Barbara Cooke; Unlimited Publ, 2003
• The Teenage Body Book; by Kathleen McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman; Simon & Schuster, 1999.
• Trust Me Mom, Everyone Else is Going!; by Roni Cohen-Sandler; Viking, 2002
• Uncommon Sense For Parents With Teenagers; by Michael Riera; Celestial Arts, 1995
• Using your Values to Raise Your Child to Be an Adult You Admire; by Harriet Heath; Parenting Press, 2000
• The Wonder of Boys: What Parents, Mentors and Educators Can Do to Shape Boys into Exceptional Men; by Michael Gurian; Putnam, 1997
• Yes, Your Teen is Crazy: Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind; by Michael Bradley; Harbor House, 2003
• When We're in Public, Pretend You Don't Know Me: Surviving Your Daughter's Adolescence So You Don't Look Like and Idiot and She Still Talks to You; by Susan Borowitz; Warner Books, 2003
• When the Breast Fairy Comes: A Parent's Survival Guide to Raising Girls; by Stacey Roberts; Positive Image Publ, 2000
• Why Do They Act That Way? A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen; by David Walsh; Free Press, 2005
• Yes Your Teen is Crazy! Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind; by Michael Bradley; Harbor Press, 2002
• You Can't Scare Me - I Have a Teenager! A Parent's Basic Survival Guide; by Thomas Stacy; Child & Family Press, 2005
• Your Adolescent: Emotional, Behavioral and Cognitive Development from Early Adolescence Through the Teen Years; by David Pruitt; American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; HarperCollins, 1999

Other Resources

Search Institute
Telephone: 800-888-7828
http://www.search-institute.org/

National Parent Information Network
Telephone: 800-583-4135