Parenting Library

• Artificial Maturity: Helping Kids Meet the Challenge of Becoming Authentic Adults
  Dr. Tim Elmore is the founder of Growing Leaders, an organization that teaches middle school, high school, and college students how to become “authentic leaders.” He has presented internationally, written more than 25 books, and ...
• Co-Dependency: Put the “I” in Independence
  Where is your power center? Is it in you or in other people or circumstances? Paradoxically, controlling people ...
• OCD and Homeschooling
  After reading many of John Holt’s books in college and subsequently working with him in Boston, I became committed to the homeschooling movement. This ...
• Finding Love (and Marriage) as a Single Mom
  You may remember the chant from childhood: First comes love, Then comes marriage, Then comes the baby ...
• Healing Those Stubborn Emotional Wounds
  Mary was experiencing low self-esteem and worthlessness. She’d say her eyes were "broken faucets." She’d cry often, and would easily ...
• OCD: When Once is Not Enough
  “Say good-night mommy, say good-night,” pleaded Johnny every night. It wasn’t as if he had not already ...
• Taking OCD to College? Build a Support System
  With students heading off to college this month, I can’t help but ...
• Parenting Well Means Being Well Prepared
  The International Day for Disaster Reduction is October 12. And my thoughts are turning more that direction than toward Halloween ...
• How to Raise Emotionally Healthy Children
  Codependency causes much unhappiness. Research shows that codependency is learned in families and passed on ...
• 10 Fantasies to Examine Before Choosing to Become a Parent
  Contemplating parenthood can be like entering the field of poppies ...
• Pride & Joy: A Guide to Understanding Your Child’s Emotions and Solving Family Problems
  "Pride & Joy" is a wonderful resource for caretakers who are looking for a parenting book that stands out from the myriad of others. Kenneth Barish, a child psychologist and professor at Cornell University, encourages parents ...
• Why Friends Disappear When Crisis Turns Chronic
  It’s a common experience: Something goes wrong in a family. A child is diagnosed ...
• Is School a Healthy Place for Your Child?
  It continues to amaze me that contemporary parents who are so concerned ...
• Talk to Me First: Everything You Need to Know to Become Your Kids’ “Go To Person” About Sex
  Sex has become so prevalent in America in recent years that not only is it casually accepted, it is commonplace. With just a few clicks, any child can access an unending world of pornography on his ...
• OCD and Humor
  Obsessive-compulsive disorder often is portrayed as a quirky, cutesy, bothersome at most, illness. This couldn’t be further from the truth. ...
• Starting a New School Year Following a Summer of Change
  Kids’ backpacks don’t only contain their lunches and homework. If their lives aren’t stable, their cares ...
• 5 Wrong Reasons for Going to College
  It’s the summer before college. You’ve been preparing for it for years -- studying, researching ...
• Through the Unknowable: Family Life with Depression, Alcohol, and Love
  Self-help books about how to cope with loss or trauma typically tend to fall into one of two simple categories: those which are written by professionals, and those which aren’t. The former tend to be ...
• Helping Your Child Transition from Elementary to Middle School
  Sixth grade graduation in my community is a big deal. At each elementary school, the kids put ...
• OCD and Hyper-responsibility
  One of the driving forces behind obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an inflated sense of responsibility, known as hyper-responsibility. Those who suffer from ...
• What is Emotional Abandonment?
  Many people don’t realize that they’re feeling emotionally abandoned or that they did as a child. They may ...
• Symptoms of Teen Substance Abuse
  Addiction is defined as the continued use of a mood-altering substance or behavior despite adverse consequences, or a neurological impairment leading to ...
• What Everyone Needs to Know About Postpartum Psychosis
  Even though postpartum psychosis is rare -- affecting about 1 to 2 ...
• Double Time: How I Survived – and Mostly Thrived – Through the First Three Years of Mothering Twins
  Jane Roper and her husband wanted to get pregnant. They were in their early 30s and finally felt ready. So Roper went off the pill, and the couple, as she puts it, gave it the ...
• How to be a Friend Indeed to a Friend in Need
  Friendship is easy when friends ...