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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
  • Crisis-Proof Your Teenager; by Kathleen McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman; Bantam Books, 1991.
  • How to Live With Your Teenager II: A Question and Answer Guide; by Peter H. Buntman and E.M. Saris; Ballantine Books, 1990.
  • How to Parent Your "Tweenager"; Understanding the In-Between Years of Your 8 to 12-Year Old; by Mary M. Simon; T. Nelson, 1995
  • Parenting Teenagers; by Don Dinkmeyer and Gary D. McKay; American Guidance Service, 1998.
  • Parenting Teens With Love & Logic; by Foster Cline; Pinon Press, 1992
  • 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
  • The Teenage Body Book; by Kathleen McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman; Simon & Schuster, 1999.
  • 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
  • When the Breast Fairy Comes: A Parent's Survival Guide to Raising Girls; by Stacey Roberts; Positive Image Publ, 2000
  • The Wonder of Boys: What Parents, Mentors and Educators Can Do to Shape Boys into Exceptional Men; by Michael Gurian; Putnam, 1997
  • 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
Internet: http://npin.org

Compiled by Catherine Smith, MLS, medical librarian at the Family Health Library, The Children's Hospital, Denver, CO.
This content is reviewed periodically and is subject to change as new health information becomes available. The information is intended to inform and educate and is not a replacement for medical evaluation, advice, diagnosis or treatment by a healthcare professional.
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