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Stratford Resources – General Parenting

10 Most Common Mistakes Good Parents Make:  - 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.

Attachment Parenting – Katie Allison Granju

Attachment parenting encourages mothers and fathers to fully accept their babies' developing needs.  Consistent parental responsiveness to these needs leads to happy and emotionally well-balanced children.  This book gives advice from paediatricians, lactation consultants and anthropologists, as well as words of wisdom from hundred of parents, and an exhaustive list of resources.  It’s a hand-on reference that allows you to confidently and joyfully develop a secure bond with your young children.

(The) Attachment Parenting Book - William Sears & Martha Sears

A commonsense guide to understanding and nurturing your baby,  this book clearly explains the seven “Baby B’s” that form the basis of this increasingly popular style: bonding, breastfeeding, baby wearing, balance, bedding close to baby, belief in the signal value of baby’s cry, and beware of baby trainers.  It provides all the information you need to achieve your most important goal as a new parent: to know your child, to help your child feel right, and to enjoy parenting.

Boost Your Child’s Self-Esteem: Simple, Effective Ways to Build Children’s Self-respect and Confidence - Karin Ireland

This book offers parents powerful and simple ways to build a child’s self-esteem and individual confidence, while encouraging a healthy regard for the needs and opinions of others.  It shows how to develop a foundation of integrity and inner strength – one that will protect children and help them to navigate life’s daily challenges.

(The) Bully, The Bullied and the Bystander - Barbara Coloroso

This book explains how parents and teachers can work together to help break the cycle of violence.  It deals with every age from preschool to high school.

Bully Proofing Your Child – Cara Garrity, Ph.d, Mitchell Baris,Ph.d,

By helping your child develop an effective strategy for dealing with bullying, you can reduce the chances that he or she will be a target and circumvent the bully/victim dynamic.  This step by step guide will help you to create a bully proof plan with your child. 

Choices in Child Care: What’s Best for Your Child?  - Suzanne Laird

This book explains how to choose the best child care for your children. It shows you what to look for, what to ask, and how to judge the various options - from day homes and nurseries to day care and nannies. It contains easy to use checklists, which can be taken along when choosing a child care centre.

(The) Canadian Adoption Guide - A Family at Last - Judith Wine

This is a practical handbook for those considering adoption as a way to create their family. It is the first book to focus on the Canadian adoption process. Adopting a newborn through the government requires an average wait of more than six years. By actively pursuing a private adoption, the author was holding her son within nine months. This book shares the knowledge gathered during her journey.

(The) Family Virtues Guide: Simple Ways to Bring out the Best in our Children and Ourselves. - Linda Kavelin Popov, Dan Popov & John Kavelin

This book shows parents and teachers how to learn the language of integrity and self-esteem, to understand the five roles a parent plays, to discover ways to introduce sacred time into family life and to help children make moral choices.

(The) Five Love Languages of Children – Gary Chapman, Ph. D

Every child expresses and receives love best through one of the following 5 communication styles: quality time, gifts, words of affirmation, acts of service and physical touch.  Learn how to detect your child’s style…………..

Helping The Child Who Doesn’t Fit In  - Stephen Nowicki & Marshall P. Duke

This book offers parents, teachers, and caregivers a guide to the puzzle of social rejection and its relationship to nonverbal interaction.

How much is enough? – Jean Illsley Clarke

Everything you need to know to steer clear of overindulgence and raise likeable, responsible and respectful children.

Keys to Parenting Multiples - Karen Gromada & Mary Hurlburt

Originally titled Keys to Parenting Twins, this book is an expanded new edition that also speaks to parents of triplets and other multiple births. Here are reliable guidelines for nurturing multiples.

Keys to Parenting Your Anxious Child – Katharina Manassis

Why are some children anxious and how do their anxieties develop?  An expert answers these questions as she describes various kinds of anxiety-related behaviour commonly observed in children.  Here’s a practical guide that shows parents how to recognize a child’s anxieties, and offers specific advice on how to help a child within the context of the family and school environment.  It also discusses when to seek professional help.  

Loving Each One Best: A Caring and Practical Approach to Raising Siblings – Nancy Samalin    

This book offers a guide for coping 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 feelings.

Nurture by Nature – Paul and Barbara Tieger

An insightful look on how to raise happy, healthy, responsible children through the insights of personality type.

Parenting the Fussy Baby and High-Need Child – William & Martha Sears

The authors offers 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 Tips from the Pros – McIntyre Media Inc

This dvd offers helpful advice from the experts – leading child psychologists outline effective strategies to help manage your child’s temper tantrums and teach your kids how to cope with their own emotions. 

Parenting Wit & Wisdom - 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 treasury of quick tips and solid advice on both the basics of parenting and helping kids in times of loss, grief, and change.

Parenting Young Children – Don Dinkmeyer, Gary McKay, James Dinkmeyer, Joyce Mckay, Don Dinkmeyer Jr.

This book outlines the effective STEP parenting program.  It offers tools to tackle the special challenges of parenting infants, toddlers and preschoolers. It is packed full of real life examples. The book discusses topics such as: understanding young children, building self-esteem, and listening and talking to your child.

(The) Parent’s Handbook – Don Dinkmeyer

The Parent’s Handbook is one of the country’s most popular parenting guides that can help you meet the challenges of raising a family.  It’s full of easy-to-understand skills you can use today such as listening, understanding, discipline, co-operation and more.

Playful Parenting: A bold new way to nurture close connections, solve behaviour problems, and encourage children’s confidence - Lawrence J. Cohen

This book is a complete guide to raising strong, confident children. It covers games, activities, and playful interactions that parents can enjoy with children of all ages. It also includes illuminating chapters on how to use play to cope with sibling rivalry, and how play can become a part of loving discipline. Playful Parenting will make you laugh even as it makes you wise in the ways of being a happy, effective, enthusiastic parent.

Positive Discipline – A-Z – 1001 Solutions to Everyday Parenting Problems – Jane Nelsen

Millions of parents have come to trust the Positive Discipline series which covers practical solutions to such parenting challenges that deal with sibling rivalry, bedtime hassles, anger, school problems, chores, eating problems and many more.   

Raising Adopted Children: Practical, Reassuring Advice for every Adoptive Parent – Lois Ruskai Melina                                                                                                    

The author draws on the latest research to guide parents through all stages of their child’s development. She addresses the pressing adoption issues, such as open adoption, international adoption and transracial adoption and answers parents’ most frequently asked questions.

Raising Boys - Steve Biddulph

This book looks at the most important issues in boys' development, from birth to manhood.  He discusses how to give boys the warm, strong parenting that they need.  He brings his humour, honesty and practical knowledge of families to the vital task of raising our sons.

Raising Confident Girls: 100 tips for parents and teachers - Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer

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

Raising Confident Boys: 100 tips for parents and teachers - Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer

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.

Real Boys' Voices- William S. Pollock

In this book, the author explores the secret struggles and passions of adolescent boys in their own words.  We hear from boys and young men in big cities and small towns who share compelling, extraordinarily candid stories about the issues and dilemmas they face every day.  This is an invaluable eye-opening book for teenage boys and girls, their parents and teachers and all the people in their lives. 

Seven Steps to Help Your Child Worry Less – Sam Goldstein, Ph.D.                                   

When worry get outs of control and causes a child to become overly fearful, anxious and stressed, parents need to find ways to help their child cope.  This book provides a seven step program that parents can use to help their child worry less.

Talking to Your Kids About Sex - Lauri Berkenkamp and Steven Atkins

This book takes a common sense, practical approach to helping parents talk to their children about a topic that makes many people uncomfortable.  It helps parents understand what children of particular ages are ready to know, what they should know, and how to tell them.

Welcoming your second Baby – Vicki Lansky

Helpful tips and advice to set the stage for a smooth transition when welcoming a second baby into your family.

Why boys are different – Dr. Bonnie Macmillan

This book explains how and why boys are different and what you can do to make the most of their potential.

Why Don’t They Like Me? – Susan M. Sheridan

This book speaks to the issue of helping your child make and keep friends.   It is a big part of a child’s life and when problems arise, parents don’t always know how to help.  The author offers practical, fun approaches to showing your child age-appropriate social skills such as starting conversations, joining in, co-operating, expressing feelings, controlling anger and more.

Please look through the children's book section and the video/DVD section for more resources on specific topics.

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