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9 Ways to Bring Out the Best in You & Your Child - by Maggie Reigh

This book is filled with practical ideas to help you empower their children to be responsible, resilient children.

10 Most Common Mistakes Good Parents Make - by Kevin Steede

This wise and practical book explains how to develop effective parenting skills and become actively involved in the lives of your children. You’ll learn the hidden power of consistency, constructive discipline, open communication, and a positive attitude.

A Family Guide: Seven Steps to Help Your Child Worry Less - by Sam Goldstein, Kristy Hagar, Robert Brooks

This book provides helpful information and ideas for parents whose children worry too much. It provides seven steps that you can work through to help your child develop coping strategies and increased confidence.

Babyproofing Your Marriage ByL Stacie Cockrell, Cathy O’Neill & Julia Stone

Babyproofing Your Marriage takes on the most contentious issues: the tit-for-tat arguments over the division of labor (scorekeeping), managing the demands of the in-laws and outlaws, the oxymoron of the family vacation, and perhaps that most combustible of all post-baby squabbles – the dwindling sex life (otherwise known as the Hound Dog/Ice Queen Vortex). It gets to the heart of why men and women see things so differently (He thinks, "Hey, look at me -- I'm doing a great job, taking care of the baby on a Sunday morning and letting my wife sleep in!" She thinks, "God, he does such a half-ass job – sipping his coffee and reading the paper while our son is sitting in a water-balloon diaper watching Baby Einstein on repeat play!") -- in the name of building mutual understanding and finding that elusive path to compromise (and maintaining a sense of humor on four hours sleep a night).

Becoming the Parent you want to be: A sourcebook of strategies for the first five years – by Laura Dave & Janis Keyser

This book provides nine principles for parenting, information about children’s feelings, dealing with difficult behaviour, social learning, family relationships and other issues.

From Crib To Kindergarten, The Essential Child Safety Guide - Dorothy Drago

In this essential guide, an eminent child safety specialist explains how to reduce the risk of childhood injury at home and beyond. 

Girls will be Girls:  Raising Confident & Courageous Daughters - by JoAnn Deak

This author describes challenges girls face from 6 to 16, and provides information on raising confident daughters.

Happily Married with Kids:  It's NOT Just a Fairy Tale - by Carol Ummel Lindquist

How to overcome the stress of having a new baby, adjust to your new roles, and enjoy it!

Have A New Kid by Friday By: Dr. Kevin Leman

Today's kids are unionized, and they've got a game plan to drive you up the wall. But you don't have to let them call the shots. If you picked up this book, you did so for a reason. You'd like to see a few things--or many--change in your house. Have a New Kid by Friday is a game plan guaranteed to work. All it takes is sticking to some simple strategies--strategies any parent can carry out. I'll be blunt. You've got a big job to do and a short window in which to do it. If you believe that you are to be in healthy authority over your child, this book is for you. If you don't, put it down right now and buy another. After you read Have a New Kid by Friday, you'll tell yourself, "I can't wait for my kids to misbehave. I'm ready for them!" I promise. Let the fun begin. . . .

Help! Around the House - by Don Aslett

A unique team approach to cleaning that your family can adapt today.  This essential book outlines strategies that really work, including how to: involve the entire family, make clean-up fun, get critical jobs done no matter now busy you are and how to cut maintenance to a minimum. 

Home Child Care: A Caregiver's Guide -  by Lee Dunster

An essential guide for anyone providing home child care or thinking about it.  Includes information on setting up your home, finding families, recording keeping and income tax, communication with parents, nutrition and so much more. 

How to Raise a Family on Less Than Two Incomes: The Complete Guide to Managing Your Money Better So You Can Spend More Time With Your Kids - by Denise Topolnicki

Using her expertise in the area of money, this mother writes about how she learned to control where their money went so she could work part-time.

How to Raise an Amazing child the Montessori Way - by Tim Seldin

A practical parenting program to help build a calm and happy home life with your child, from birth through six years of age, based on Montessori school methods. 

How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk - by Adele Faber

This book offers innovative ways to solve common problems.  You will learn how to cope with your child's negative feelings - frustration, disappointment, anger and much more. 

It's Your Room! A Decorating Guide for Real Kids - by Janice Weaver

This fun and functional guide to decorating and design covers everything they don't tell you on those home-improvement shows - from choosing colors that complement each other to using textures and shapes that spice up your space. 

Just Because it's not wrong doesn't make it right - by Barbara Coloroso

This book shows parents how to nurture and guide children's ethical lives from toddlerhood through the teen years using everyday situations at home, at school, in social settings and in the world at large. 

Kids are Worth It! - by Barbara Coloroso

This book examines the difference between encouragement and rewards, discipline and punishment. Parents will learn how to empower and influence their children instead of controlling them and trying to "make them mind" – teaching them how to think, not just what to think. It examines the approaches and the methods of three typical family types – the brick wall, the jellyfish and the backbone. It includes two new chapters: one dealing with the triangle of influence and another that talks about  the impact of threats, punishments, bribes, and rewards on the parent-child relationship.

Kids, Parents & Power Struggles By: Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

Every family experiences power struggles, but these daily tugs-of-war are not inevitable. KIDS, PARENTS, AND POWER STRUGGLES presents strategies for getting to the root of the emotions and needs that can create these conflicts. At the same time, the author discusses how such tussles can teach your child essential skills, like how to be assertive rather than aggressive and how to solve problems.

Love, Magic & Mudpies - Raising your kids to feel loved, be kind and make a difference -by Bernie Siegel, M.D.

Love is necessary for our survival and is the key ingredient for both the parent and the child.  Children see the magic in everything, and loving parents can and will experience so many magical moments while raising their children. 

Loving Each One Best - A Caring and Practical Approach to Raising Siblings - by Nancy Samalin

This book offers a guide for coping for parents with more than one child. The author reveals how other parents have coped and offers creative solutions to problems ranging from sibling rivalry to getting kids to go to bed on time. The book also addresses the parents’ feelings as well as the children’s.

Over 100 Tips for Parents and Teachers – Raising Happy Kids – By Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer

A book containing tools and tactics for nurturing self-confidence and self-reliance in children of all ages.

Parenting the Fussy Baby and High-Need Child - by William & Martha Sears, MD

The authors offer practical advice to parents who need it the most.  They cover the full spectrum of parental concerns with reassuring practical information.  They discuss topics such as: creative ways to soothe a fussy baby, facts on medical causes of infant fussiness and methods for helping high need children go to bed and sleep through the night. 

Parenting With Wit & Wisdom - by Barbara Coloroso

This book takes the wit and wisdom of each of Barbara Coloroso’s full length books, Kids Are Worth It and Parenting Through Crisis and combines them into a portable treasure of quick tips and solid advice on both the basics of parenting and helping kids in times of loss, grief, and change.

Partnership Parnting – How Men & Women Parent Differently – Why it Helps Your Kids & Can Strengthen Your Marriage By: Kyle Pruett, MD & Marsha Kline Pruett, PhD

A groundbreaking exploration of how men and women uniquely parent and communicate with their children, and why kids need both influences

Perfect Parenting - The Dictionary of 1000 Parenting Tips - by Elizabeth Pantley

This practical book provides many ideas for situations that you may have with your children. Using an A to Z format, it is easy to look up the issues that pertain to you.

Praising Boys Well - Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer

This book provides 100 practical tips for parents and teachers alike on how to take advantage of opportunities for praising boys well in everyday situations.

Praising Girls Well - Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer

This book provides 100 practical tips for parents and teachers alike on how to take advantage of opportunities for praising girls well in everyday situations.

Raise Your Child without Raising your Voice - Sarah Chana Radcliffe

A book filled with techniques all parents need to maintain a peaceful, happy and healthy home.  Inside this essential guide you will find solutions to everyday parenting challenges including bedtime, homework and responsibilities.

Raising an Optimistic Child - Bob Murray

In this book you will learn how to bring about life long happiness in your child and protect them from the pain and damage of depression.

Raising a Thinking Child:  Help Your Young Child to Resolve Everyday Conflicts and Get Along with Others - by Myrna B. Shure

This workbook helps you to teach children to solve problems. It addresses conflicts that occur in different areas of the home, and provides many activities to do.

Raising Confident Boys - Elizabeth Hartely

This book provides 100 practical, effective tips for readers who want to help the boys in their lives accomplish important goals and feel good about themselves. It teaches parents and teachers how to take advantage of the opportunities in everyday situations to bolster a boy’s self-image.

Raising Confident Girls - Elizabeth Hartely

This book provides 100 practical, effective tips for readers who want to help the girls in their lives accomplish important goals and feel good about themselves. It teaches parents and teachers how to take advantage of the opportunities in everyday situations to bolster a girl’s self-image.

Strategies for Stay-at-Home Parents - by Kristine Berggren

This book addresses creating a lifestyle that works for your family, including managing schedules, finances and much more.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families - by Stephen R. Covey

This book takes the 7 habits of highly effective people and adapts them to show how you can build a strong, loving family. From developing a family mission statement to celebrating diversity and putting family first, this book will motivate you.

The Best Things Parents Do - by Susan Isaacs Kohl

You will love this book for it's more than 40 brief essays that help us remember what is really important.  Each piece concludes with a few questions or an idea to help you articulate the best things you do, so you can do more of them. 

The Mister Rogers Parenting Book: Helping to Understand Your Young Child - by Fred Rogers

This book addresses everyday experiences (mealtimes, fears), first experiences (toilet learning, adapting to child care) and special challenges (adopting, dealing with death).

The Mother of All Parenting Books - by Ann Douglas

This book is a comforting instruction manual for the day-to-day adventures that await you.  Packed with practical strategies, handy checklists and parent-tested advice, this comprehensive, down-to-earth guide is a breath of fresh air for moms and dads.

The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart - by Jan Hunt

This book promotes attachment parenting – an approach that advocates for children and helps children to be confident and loving human beings.

The Pampered Child Syndrome: How to recognize it, how to manage it, and how to avoid it - by Dr. Maggie Mamen

This guide for is for parents and educators who work with children who are used to getting what they want. It provides practical advice for managing it and preventing it.

The Parent’s Handbook: STEP (Systematic training for effective parenting) - by Don Dinkmeyer,

This book provides practical guidance in raising children. It discusses understanding yourself and your beliefs, encouraging your child, helping children cooperate, and discipline that makes sense. This book provides many examples to help you talk through what you would do in similar situations.

The Power of Positive Talk - Words to Help Every Child Succeed - by Douglas Block, M.A.

This book addresses the importance of affirmation. It also addresses positive talk for specific ages and for children with special needs.

The Stay-at-Home Parent Survival Guide – by Christina Baglivi Tinglof

This book addresses the stress of being at home all day with the kids, and provides ideas for indoor and outdoor activities, place to take the kids, how to develop a support system or playgroup, handling your finances, and much more.

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Parenting

Forget quicksand and shark attacks… childrearing is the truly terrifying activity. Parents face an everchanging parade of perils, from the cradle through the teenage years. Here are illustrated, step-by-step instructions that tell you what to really expect when your worst-case scenario is all in the family.

Toddler's First Steps:  A Best Chance Guide to Parenting Your Six-Month to Three-Year-Old - by the Government of British Columbia

This book addresses the importance of the early years, your child’s nutrition, health and safety as well as parenting a toddler.

Trouble-Free Travel with Children: Helpful hints for parents on the go - by Vicki Lansky

This book addresses planning, eating en route, entertaining children as well as tips for planes, trains and buses.

You Make a Difference - by Ayala Manolson

This book provides the tools for adults to engage in intimate, supportive interactions with preschool-age children. It helps to improve the communication between adults and kids. 

 

 

 


Perth Care For Kids is committed to supporting the importance of early childhood education and development by offering a variety of flexible, quality programs and services for children, families and caregivers.

We are proud to be the host agency for the Perth-Middlesex Early Years Centres.