Parenting Books

The following are books that our staff and parents have recommended as books that have been helpful with parenting issues.

** Books for loan in Somerset Academy Parent Library

** Celebrate! An Anti-Bias Guide to Enjoying Holidays by Julie Bisson

Child Behavior: The Classic Childcare Manual from the Gesell Institute of Human Development by Frances L. Ilg & Louise Bates Ames

** Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline: The 7 Basic Skills for Turning Conflict into Cooperation by Becky Bailey

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

The Successful Child: What Parents Can Do to Help Kids Turn Out Well by William Sears, MD and Martha Sears, RN 

** Your Child’s Growing Mind by Jane M. Healy PhD

Your One Year Old, also Your Two Year Old, Your Three Year Old, etc. by Louise Bates Ames and Frances Ilg from The Gesell Institute Child Development Series

Your Self-Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child’s Natural Abilities from the Very Start by Magda Gerber & Alison Johnson

** Boys by Dan Hodgins

** Get Over It by Dan Hodgins

**Managing Emotional Mayhem by Dr. Becky Bailey

**Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings by Dr. Laura Markham

**Conscious Discipline by Dr. Becky Bailey

**I Love You Rituals by Dr. Becky Bailey

**Boys: Changing the Classroom, Not the Child by Dan Hodgins