Helping Teenagers & Parents Deal with the Pressures and Stress of the High School Years

• How To Be a High School Superstar by Cal Newport
• College Admissions Together: It Takes a Family by Steven Roy Goodman & Andrea Leiman
• Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be by Frank Bruni
• You Are Not Special: …..And Other Encouragements by David McCullough
• Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain by Daniel Siegel
• Your Defiant Child: Eight Steps to Better Behavior by Russell Barkley
• Parenting with Love and Logic by F. & J. Fay Cline
• Parenting Teens with Love and Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood by F. & J. Fay Cline
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families by S. Covey
• Parenting Teenagers: Systematic Training for Effective Parenting by D. Dinkmeyer & G. McKay
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweek
• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by A. Faber & E. Mazlish
• Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots & Wings by M. Kenneth & R. Ginsburt
• Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World: Seven Building Blocks for Developing Capable Young People, by S. Glenn & J. Nelson
• Boys and Girls Learn Differently: A Guide for Teachers and Parents by Michael Gurian
• The Wonder of Girls by Michael Gurian
• The Wonder of Boys by Michael Gurian
• Second Shelter: Family Strategies for Navigating Therapeutic Boarding Schools and Residential Treatment Centers by R. Haid & E. Donnelly
• Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children by Daniel Hughes
• The Parent Playbook by Russell Hyken
• Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow by G. Keck & R. Kupecky
• Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishment to Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn
• The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage are Creating a Generagion of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids by Madeline Levine
• How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success by Julie Lythcott-Haims
• Teens in Turmoil: A Path to Change for Parents, Adolescents and their Families by C. Maxym & L. York
• An Unchanged Mind: The Problem with Immaturity in Adolescence by John McKinnon
• To Change a Mind: Parenting to Promote Maturity in Teenagers by John McKinnon
• When Parents Love Too Much: Freeing Parents & Children to Live their Own Lives by M. Meyerson & L. Ashner
• The Blessings of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children by Wendy Mogel
• Blessing of a B Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers by Wendy Mogel
• Positive Discipline for Teenagers: Empowering Teens and Yourself through Kind and Firm Parenting by J. Nelson & L. Lott
• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by K. Patterson
• Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from Myths of Boyhood by William Pollack
• College that Change Lives: 40 Schools that Will Change the Way You Think About College by Laren Pope
• Power and Compassion: Working with Difficult Adolescents and Abused Parents by Jerome Price
• The Journey of the Heroic Parent: Your Child’s Struggle and the Road Home by Brad Reedy
• The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids by Alexandra Robbins
• Raising NLD Superstars: What Families with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities Need to Know About Nurturing Confident, Competent Kids by Marcia Rubinstein
• Boys Themselves by Michael Ruhlman
• The Good Enough Child: How to Have an Imperfect Family and Be Perfectly Satisfied by Brad Sachs
• The Good Enough Teen: Rising Adolescents with Love and Acceptance (Despite How Impossible They can Be) by Brad Sachs
• Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences by Leonard Sax
• Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men by Leonard Sax
• Girls on the Edge by Leonard Sax
• Parenting Your Out of Control Teenager: 7 Steps to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love by Scott Sells
• Parenting from the Inside Out: 10^th Anniversary edition: How a Self-Understanding Can Help you Raise Children by D.J. Siegel & M. Hartzell
• Not By Chance Tim Thayne
• How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough
• The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children’s Moral and Emotional Development by Richard Weissbourd
• Parenting Your ADD Child: A No-Nonsense Guide for Nurturing Self-Reliance and Cooperation by Craig Weiner

The Transition from High School to College

For Students

• The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College by Harlan Cohen

For Parents

• Letting Go by Karen Coburn
• When Your Kids Go To College – A Parent’s Survival Guide by Carol Barkin
• Almost Grown – Launching Your Child From High School To College by Patricia Pasick
• Emptying the Nest: Launching Your Young Adult Toward Success and Self-Reliance by Brad Sachs
• The Naked Roomate: For Parents Only: A Parent’s Guide to the New College Experience by Harlan Cohen