Parent Library

In an effort to continue to educate ourselves & our families, we have assembled a Parent Library. This library is composed with numerous books regarding subjects like discipline, nutrition, changing bodies, and philosophies in bringing up your child in today’s environments. We encourage our parents to stop by the front counter and use this library as a resource. All we ask is that if you want to take a book home, you write your name on the card located inside of the front of the book, and put the card in the card catalogue box under the title of the book. Listed below are just a few of the books that we have recently added to the library. ​

It’s OK NOT To Share
Parenting can be such an overwhelming job that it’s easy to lose track of where you stand on some of the more controversial subjects at the playground (What if my kid likes to rough house—isn’t this ok as long as no one gets hurt? And what if my kid just doesn’t feel like sharing?). In this inspiring and enlightening book, Heather Shumaker describes her quest to nail down “the rules” to raising smart, sensitive, and self-sufficient kids. Drawing on her own experiences as the mother of two small children, as well as on the work of child psychologists, pediatricians, educators and so on, in this book Shumaker gets to the heart of the matter on a host of important questions. Hint: many of the rules aren’t what you think they are!

The Explosive Child
Screaming, swearing, crying, hitting, kicking, spitting, biting…these are some of the challenging behaviors we see in kids who are having difficulty meeting our expectations. These behaviors often leave parents feeling frustrated, angry, overwhelmed, and desperate for answers. In this fully revised and updated book, Dr. Ross Greene helps you understand why and when your child does these things and how to respond in ways that are non-punitive, non-adversarial, humane, and effective.

Conscious Discipline
Conscious Discipline is a comprehensive self-regulation program that integrates social-emotional learning and discipline. This approach has become a long time leader in the integration of classroom management with social emotional learning, utilizing everyday events as the curriculum and addressing the adult’s emotional intelligence as well as the child’s. Conscious Discipline empowers adults to consciously respond rather than to react to daily conflict, transforming it into an opportunity to teach critical life skills.

UNBORED Games
UNBORED Games has all the smarts, creativity, and DIY spirit of the original UNBORED (“It’s a book! It’s a guide! It’s a way of life!” -Los Angeles Magazine), but with a laser-like focus on the activities we do for pure fun: to while away a rainy day, to test our skills and stretch our imaginations-games. There are more than seventy games here, 50 of them all new, plus many more recommendations, and they cover the full gambit, from old-fashioned favorites to today’s high-tech games. The book offers a gold mine of creative, constructive fun: intricate clapping games, bike rodeo, Google Earth challenges, croquet golf, capture the flag, and the best ever apps to play with Grandma, to name only a handful. Gaming is a whole culture for kids to explore, and the book will be complete with gaming history and interviews with awesome game designers.

Let Them Play
Children’s play is focused, purposeful, and full of learning. As children play, they master motor development, learn language and social skills think creatively, and make cognitive leaps. This (un)curriculum is all about supporting child-led play, trusting children as capable and engaged learners, and forgoing packaged curriculums and prescribed activities. Let Them Play explains the guiding principles of an (un)curriculum and how it gives children the freedom to play, includes suggestions to create spaces that promote healthy development and learning, and supports those who believe in the learning power of play.

It’s Not About The Broccoli
You already know how to give your children healthy food, but the hard part is getting them to eat it. After years of research and working with parents, Dina Rose discovered a powerful truth: when parents focus solely on nutrition, their kids – surprisingly – eat poorly. But when families shift their emphasis to behaviors – the skills and habits kids are taught – they learn to eat right. Every child can learn to eat well, but only if you show them how to do it. Dr. Rose describes the three habits – proportion, variety, and moderation – all kids need to learn, and gives you clever, practical ways to teach these food skills. With It’s Not About The Broccoli you can teach your children how to eat and give them the skills they need for a lifetime of health and vitality.

It’s Perfectly Normal
For two decades, this universally acclaimed book on sexuality has been the most trusted and accessible resource for kids, parents, teachers, librarians, and anyone else who cares about the well-being of tweens and teens. Now, in honor of its anniversary, It’s Perfectly Normal has been updated with information on subjects such as safe and savvy Internet use, gender identity, emergency contraception, and more. Providing accurate and up-to-date answers to nearly every imaginable question, from conception and puberty