Summer Must-Reads

Summer is the season for digging your toes in the sand and burying your nose in a good book. To make the most out of your reading respites, here are seven titles to help you up your parenting game.

Talking Points

The ‘ultimate parenting bible’

Written by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, experts on communication between parents and children, “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk” includes insights, suggestions and methods to solve common problems and build foundations for lasting relationships.

Love Languages

Build a love that lasts

In “The 5 Love Language of Children,” New York Times best-selling author Gary Chapman shows you how to speak to your child’s love language in order to help you assist your child in successful learning, correct and discipline more effectively, and build a foundation of unconditional love for your child.

Raise Them Up

Develop a trusting relationship

Learn to give your child the gift of independence with “Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World” by H. Stephen Glenn and Jane Nelson. The book offers up-to-date information to offer you inspiring and workable ideas for developing a trusting relationship with your child and helping your child become a responsible adult.

Keep Calm

Welcome in the peace

Author Sheila McCraith offers “Yell Less, Love More,” a guidebook to happier parenting. She introduces readers to the “orange rhino,” a person that parents with warmth and determination, and who doesn’t charge with words when angry, impatient, or simply in a bad mood.

Life Skills

What we ought to be teaching

In “Mind in the Making” by Ellen Galinsky, learn the “seven essential life skills every child needs,” including focus and self control, perspective taking, communicating, making connections, critical thinking, taking on challenges, and self-directed engaged learning.

Love & Logic

Raise kids ready for the real world

Renowned authors Foster Cline and Jim Fay offer parents tools to raise self-confident, motivated children in “Parenting with Love & Logic.” Learn how to parent effectively while teaching your children responsibility and character. Also learn to establish healthy control through easy-to-implement steps without anger, threats, nagging or power struggles.

Body Talk

For the well-being of your teen

It’s been more than 20 years since author Robie Harris released “It’s Perfectly Normal,” the definitive guidebook about puberty and sexual health for kids and teens. Today, the book has been updated with information on such subjects as safe Internet use, gender identity and contraception. It continues to give young people the information they need to make responsible and healthy decisions.

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