Parent Resources

Parenting

• Raising Kids - Your Essential Guide to Everyday Parenting - Sheri Glucoft Wong LCSW, Olaf Jorgenson EdD

• What Do You Say? How to Talk with Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home - Dr. William Stixrud and Ned Johnson

• How to Talk so Kids will Listen & Listen So Kids will Talk - Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

• The Art of Talking with Children: The Simple Keys To Nurturing Kindness, Creativity, And Confidence In Kids - Rebecca Rolland, EdD

• Overcoming Parental Anxiety: Rewire Your Brain to Worry Less & Enjoy Parenting More - Debra Kissen PhD, Micah Ioffe PhD, Hannah Romain LSCW

• Send Me Into the Woods Alone: Essays on Motherhood - Erin Pepler 

• The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children - Ross Green PhD 

Co-Parenting

• Your Place or Mine? Practical Advice for Developing a Co-Parenting Arrangement After Separation  - Charlotte Schwartz

Technology/Digital Literacy

• The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun & Freedom in a Screen Filled World - Jonathan Haidt and Catherine Price

• The Tech Solution: Creating Healthy Habits for Kids Growing up in a Digital World - Shimi Kang MD

• 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High Tech World - Jean Twenge PhD

• Parenting in the Screen Age: A Guide for Calm Conversations - Delaney Rushton MD

• How to Break up with your Phone: The 30 Day Digital Detox Plan - Catherine Price

• Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again - Johann Hari 

• The Fabulous Friend Machine - Nick Bland (children's book) 

Mental Health & Wellness 

• Calming Your Child: De-escalating Tantrums, Anxiety, Aggression, and Other Challenging Behaviour - Dame Sue Bagshaw MD, Michael Hempseed

• Helping your Anxious Child: A Step-by-Step Guide for Parents: Ronald Rapee PhD, Ann Wignall DPsych, Susan Spence PhD, Heidi Lyneham PhD

• Lets Talk About Anxiety: A Guide to Help Adults Talk to Kids About Worries - Sharon Selby

• Stop Walking on Eggshells for Parents: How To Help Your Child (of Any Age) With Borderline Personality Disorder Without Losing Yourself - Randi Kreger, Christine Adamec MBA, Daniel S. Lobel PhD

• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness - Jonathan Haidt

Development

• The Whole Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind - Daniel J. Siegel MD, Tina Payne Bryson PhD

• The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become And How Their Brains Get Wired - Daniel J. Siegel MD, Tina Payne Bryson PhD

Indigenous Authors

• Indigenous Writes: A guide to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Issues in Canada - Chelsea Vowel

• Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit - Marie Battiste

• All Our Relationship: Finding the Path Forward - Tanya Talaga

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer

• 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality - Bob Joseph

• Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City - Tanya Talaga

• Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning Through Ceremony - By Sara Davidson and Robert Davidson​

Many more Fictional and Non Fiction books by Indigenous Authors can be found on the               SD63 Indigenous Education Site. 

Teenage Years

• The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents - Lisa Damour PhD

• Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through The Seven Transitions Into Adulthood - Lisa Damour PhD

• Brainstorm: The Power And Purpose Of The Teenage Brain - Daniel J. Siegel MD

• The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better - Jenny Anderson, Rebecca Winthrop

Outdoors

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• 1000 Hours Outside: Activities to Match Screen Time with Green Time - Ginny Yurich

• How to Raise A Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature - Scott D Sampson

• Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out Of The House And Radically Engaged With Nature - Steven Rinella

• Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder - Richard Louv

Friendship

• Let's Talk About Friendship: A Guide to Help Adults Talk With Kids About Friendship - Casey O'Brien Martin

• Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers - Gordon Neufeld

Racism/Justice

• Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting guide - Britt Hawthorne

• Wayi Wah! Indigenous Pedagogies: An Act for Reconciliation and Anti-Racist Education - Jo Chrona

• All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward - Tanya Talaga

• A Mind Spread Out on the Ground: Anti-Indigenous racism, colonial history, poverty, violence, mental illness, and the connections between all of them - Alicia Elliott 

Gender Issues

• Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive In An Era Of Increased Anxiety, Depression, And Social Media - Donna Jackson Nakazawa

• What girls Need: How to raise Bold, Courageous, and Resilient Women - Marisa Porges, Phd

Grief & Loss

• A Parent's Guide to Managing Childhood Grief: 100 Activities for Coping, Comforting & Overcoming Sadness, Fear & Loss - Katie Lear, LCMHC, RPT, RDT

• Giving Hope: Conversations with Children about Illness, Death and Loss - Elena Lister MD, Michael Schwartzman PhD, Lindsey Tate

Climate Anxiety

• Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Anxiety: Britt Wray

• A guide to Eco-Anxiety: How To Protect The Planet And Your Mental Health - Anouchka Grose

• Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet - Hannah Ritchie

• The Climate Optimist Handbook: How to Shift the Narrative on Climate Change and Find the Courage to Choose Change - Anne Therese Gennari

• A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How To Keep Your Cool On A Warming Planet - Sarah Jaquette Ray

• Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis - Elin Kelsey