For Parents:
General Baby/Young Child Care:
- The American Academy of Pediatrics New Mother’s Guide to Breastfeeding: Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition
- The Happiest Baby on the Block; Fully Revised and Updated Second Edition: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
- Caring for Your Baby and Young Child, 5th Edition: Birth to Age 5
Spirited/Emotional Children:
- The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
- Raising Your Spirited Child, Third Edition: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic
- Your Defiant Child: Eight Steps to Better Behavior, 2nd Edition
- 1-2-3 Magic: 3-Step Discipline for Calm, Effective, and Happy Parenting
Children and Adolescents with Sensory Challenges:
- Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Processing Issues, Revised Edition
- The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder (The Out-of-Sync Child Series)
- The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun, Revised Edition: Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder
- The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up: Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder in the Adolescent and Young Adult Years
Children with ADHD:
Sleep:
- The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night
(This book does contain a section about co-sleeping as safely as possible. Please note this is not encouraged by te author, the AAP or LPA due to the risk of SIDS or suffocation. However, the book contains many other useful strategies for sleep.) - Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, 4th Edition: A Step-by-Step Program for a Good Night’s Sleep
Dealing with a Difficult Diagnosis:
- Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
(This book deals not only with medical diagnoses, but also with children who have other big differences with their families such as sexual orientation, religion, etc.)
For Kids:
Bringing Home a Sick or Premature Sibling:
Friend or Sibling with Trisomy 21
Understanding Kids with Disabilities
Sleep Fears
Self Confidence, Early School Age
Sensory/Asperger Challenges, Age 6+
Puberty:
- It’s Not the Stork!: A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends (The Family Library)
- It’s So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families (The Family Library)
- It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (The Family Library)
- The Boy’s Body Book: Fourth Edition
- The Care and Keeping of You: The Body Book for Younger Girls, Revised Edition
