Parent Resource Center
The Parent Resource Center has books, videos, and games, to be loaned to parents for a checkout period of two weeks. Information is available on parenting, discipline, homework, learning disabilities, special needs, giftedness, adolescence, curriculum support, and more.
In order to check out a book, parents may visit the Parent Resource Center, located in room 37, near the cafeteria.
You can view the list of available book titles for each category by selecting the links below:
Discipline
Positive Discipline A-Z: 1001 Solutions to Everyday Parenting Problems. Nelsen, Jane; Lynn Lott; and H. Stephen Glenn
Setting Limits: How to Raise Responsible, Independent Children by Providing Clear Boundaries. Mackenzie, Robert J.
Positive Discipline for Single Parents: A Practical Guide to Raiding Children Who Are Responsible, Respectful, and Resourceful. Nelsen, Jane; Cheryl Erwin; Carol Delzer
Positive Discipline. Nelsen, Jane
Learning Disabilities
Learning Disabilities A Family Affair. Osman, Betty B.
What Do You Mean I Have Learning Disability? Dwyer, Kathleen M.
Extraordinary Children Ordinary Lives Stories Behind Special Education Case Law. Martin, Reed
The Out-of-Sync Child; Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder. Kranowitz, Carol Stock
The Misunderstood Child A Guide for Parents of Learning Disabled Children. Silver, Larry B.
Otto Learns About His Medicine A Story about Medication for Children with ADHD. Galvin, Matthew (picture book)
Parenting
Ending the Homework Hassle: Understanding, Preventing, and Solving School Performance Problems. Rosemond, John
Raising Your Spirited Child; A guide for parents whose child is more intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent, energetic. Kurcinka, Mary Sheedy
The Out-of-Sync Child; Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder. Kranowitz, Carol Stock
…and I thought I knew how to Communicate! Fresh Choices in Relating. Dilley, Josiah
Help is on the way for: Schoolwork. Berry, Marilyn
It’s O.K. to Say No! A Parent/Child manual for the Protection of Children. Lenett, Robin with Bob Crane
The Misunderstood Child A Guide for Parents of Learning Disabled Children. Silver, Larry B.
How to Help Your Child With Homework: Every caring parent’s guide to encouraging good study habit and ending the Homework Wars. Radencich, Marguerite C.; Jeanne Shay Schumm
When Good Kids Do Bad Things: A Survival Guide for Parents. Levine, Katherine Gordy
Children: the Challenge. Dreikurs, Rudolph and Vicki Soltz
Liberated Parents Liberated Children: Your Guide to a Happier Family. Faber, Adele and Elaine Mazlish
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk. Faber, Adele and Elaine Mazlish
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. Borowitz, Susan
Get Out of My Life, But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? Wolf, Anthony E.
Single Mothers Raising Sons. Reed, Bobbie
How to Father a Successful Daughter. Marone, Nicky
Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles. Kurcinka, Mary Sheedy
“I Think I Can, I Know I Can!” Isaacs, Susan and Wendy Ritchey
The Parent’s Handbook: Systematic Training for Effective Parenting. Dinkmeyer, Don and Gary D. McKay
A Guide for Caring Teachers and Parents: The Impossible Child. Rapp, Doris J. with Dorothy Bamberg
The Difficult Child. Turecki, Stanley with Leslie Tonner
When Your Child is Afraid. Schachter, Robert and Carole Spearin McCauley
The Challenging Child. Greenspan, Stanley I. with Jacqueline Salmon
The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon. Elkind, David
Best Friends, Worst Enemies Understanding the Social Lives of Children. Thompson, Michael and Catherine O’Neill Grace with Lawrence J. Cohen
Reading
Every Child Ready to Read: Literacy Tips for Parents. The Lee Pesky Learning Center
Like Sound Through Water: A Mother’s Journey Through Auditory Processing Disorder. Foli, Karen J.
Getting Ready To Read. Boegehold, Betty D.
Reading Aids Through the Grades: A guide to Materials and 440 Activities for Individualizing Reading Instruction. Mueser, Anne Marie
Miscellaneous
Beyond the Bake Sale An Educator’s Guide to Working With Parents. Henderson, Anne T., Carl L. Marburger, Theodora Ooms
New Directions in Parent Involvement. Fruchter, Norm; Anne Galletta; J. Lynne White
Wonders of Science. Berger, Melvin
Conquering Depression. Sturgeon, Wina
How to Break Your Addiction to a Person. Halpern, Howard M.
Resources for Creative Teaching in Early Childhood Education. Flemming, Bonnie Mack; Darlene Softley Hamilton; JoAnne Deal Hicks
Green Thumbs A Kid’s Activity Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Gardening. Carlson, Laurie
What to Do with the Kids on a Rainy Day… Katz, Adrienne
A Touch of Wonder. Gordon, Arthur
Reading Readiness. Hoffman, Joan
Honey and Salt. Sandburg, Carl
Video
Kids and Nutrition. Bernstein, Patty
Drugs—Why This Plague? Johnson
Don’t Put Your Dreams on Hold With Drugs. Hard Choices
Read to Me. International Reading Association
Ebony National PTA Guide to Student Excellence
The Future Is Now
Coming to Terms
Wiggle Works. Scholastic Beginning Literacy System
A Gift For Life. The American Council for Drug Education
Safe Surfin’. Broad Street Productions
