Reading for Parents

General Pediatrics

1. What Works with Children - Edited by Marshall P. Duke and Sara B. Duke. Our own Dr. Levine has contributed to this book (see page 153)! It contains wonderful advice, wisdom and reflections from people who have devoted their careers to kids. Published by Peachtree Publishers
   
2. Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Five Years - Steven P. Shelov (Ed), et al, Bantam, Doubleday, Dell
   
3. American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child’s Symptoms: The Official Home Reference - Birth through Adolescence, Donald Schiff (Ed), et al, Villard Books
   
4. Your Child’s Health: The Parents’ Guide to Symptoms, Emergencies, Common Illnesses, Behavior and School Problems - Barton D. Schmitt, Bantam Books
   
5. Partners in Good Health (video) - University of Texas Medical School, available in English, Spanish and Vietnamese, 713-690-0461
6. Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Nurse Advice Line - 404-250-kids (5437) - Resource for after hours advice on sick kids.  Also offers audio library on multiple topics.
7. Family Library of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston - 404-315-2611 and Max Brown Family Library of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite 404-250-2591
8. Waking Up Dry - Howard J. Bennett, MD on Enuresis, American Academy of Pediatrics
9. The Wonder Years: Helping Your Baby and Young Child Successfully Negotiate the Major Development Milestones (hardcover) - American Academy of Pediatrics, Tanya Remer Altmann (Editor) Publisher, Bantam Books.  From America's most trusted pediatric authority comes an indispensable, easy-to-use guide to helping your baby and young child flourish in the first five years of life physically, mentally, and emotionally.
10. Could it be Autism? Guide to the First Signs - Nancy Wiseman, MD
    

Vaccination Information

1. What Every Parent Should Know About Vaccines - Paul Offit, Louis Bell, M.D. This is a great short book that reviews specific vaccines and the diseases they prevent.
2. Six Common Misconceptions and How To Respond To Them - CDC, is another book that targets the most common misconceptions in the antivaccine literature and offers sensible responses.

Nutrition

1. American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child’s Nutrition: Making Peace at the Table and Building Healthy Eating Habits for Life - William Dietz (Ed), et al, Villard Books
   
2. Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family - Ellen Satter, Kelcy Press
   
3. Coping With a Picky Eater; A Guide for the Perplexed Parent - William G. Wilkoff, Fireside
   
4. Also:
• American Dietetic Association Nutrition Hotline, 8A-8P EST, 1-800-366-1655
• Eating disorders, 24 hour, 1-800-382-2832

Parenting and Discipline

1. PET: Parent Effectiveness Training - Thomas Gordon, New American Library Trade
   
2. Making Children Mind without Losing Yours - Dr. Kevin Leman, Fleming H. Revell Co.
   
3. Beyond Discipline; Parenting that Lasts a Lifetime - Edward D. Christopherson, Overland Press, Inc.
4. Parenting a Child with a Learning Disability - Tuttle and Paquette, by Doubleday.
5. The Loving Parents Guide to Discipline: How to Teach Your Child to Behave-With Kindness, Understanding and Respect - Marilyn Gootman, Berkley Publishing Company
   
6. Loving Each One Best: A Caring and Practical Guide to Raising Siblings - Nancy Samalin and Catherine Whitney, Bantam Books
   
7. Raising a Responsible Child; How Parents Can Avoid Indulging Too Much and Rescuing Too Often - Elizabeth Ellis, Carol Publishing Corp.
8. The Privileged Child - Madeline Levine, Ph.D., HarperCollins Publishing, New York
9. The Wonder Years: Helping Your Baby and Young Child Successfully Negotiate the Major Develpmental Milestones (hardcover) - American Academy of Pediatrics, Tanya Remer Altmann (Editor), Bantam Books.  From America's most trusted pediatric authority comes an indispensable, easy-to-use guide to helping your baby and yound child flourish in the first five years of life - physically, mentally, and emotionally.
   

Puberty and Teens

1. Reviving Ophelia - Mary Pipher, Ballantine Books
   
2. Caring for Your Adolescent Ages 12-21 - American Academy of Pediatrics Staff
   
3. Your Ten to Fourteen Year Old - Louise Bates Ames, et al, Delacorte Press
   
4. The What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Sons and The What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Daughters- Lynda Madaras, et al, Newmarket Press
   
5. Raising a Thoughtful Teenager - Ben Kamin, Plume
   
6. The Care and Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls - Valorie Lee Schaefer, Pleasant Company Publications
   
7. Real Boys: Rescuing our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood - William S. Pollack, Owl Books
   
8. Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write about Their Search for Self - Sara Shandler, Harperperrenial Library
   
9. It's So Amazing: A Book About Eggs, Sperm, Babies, and Family - Robbie Harris, Candlewick Press, Cambridge, MA
   
10. Also:
• Do It Now Foundation (behavioral health issues), e-mail @ doitnow123@earthlink.net
• Eating Disorder, 1-800-382-2832

Sex

1. How to Talk to Your Kids about Sex: It’s Best to Start Early but it’s Never too Late- A Step-by-Step Guide for Every Age - Linda and Richard Eyre, Golden Books Publishing Company
   
2. When Sex is the Subject - Pamela M. Wilson, Network Publications
   
3. Love and Sex and Growing Up - Eric W. Johnson, J.B. Lipincott Company
   
4. All about Sex: A Family Resource on Sex and Sexuality - Ronald F. Moglia and Jon Knowles, Random House
   
5. Five Hundred Questions Kids Ask about Sex and Some of the Answers - Francis Younger, Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Ltd.
   
6. Sex is More than a Plumbing Lesson: A Parent’s Guide - Patty Stark, ACCESS Publishers Network
   
7. Sex is not a Four Letter Word! Talking with Your Children Made Easier - Patricia Martens Miller, The Crossword Publishing Company
   
8. Belly Buttons are Navels - Mark Schoen, Prometheus Books
   
9. How Were You Born? - Joanna Cole, Wilmer, Inc.
   
10. Where Did I Come From? The Facts without any Nonsense and with Illustrations - Peter Mayle, Carol Publishing Group
    
11. Where Do Babies Come From? - Susan Meredith, EDC Publishing
    
12. What Kids Want to Know about Sex and Growing Up - Video produced by The Children’s Television Network, (available in most Blockbuster Videos Community Service Section for free).

Attention Deficit Disorder and Learning Disabilities

1. Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents - Russell Barkley, Guilford Press
   
2. Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood through Adulthood - Edward M. Hallowell, Simon and Schuster
   
3. Beyond Ritalin: Facts about Medication and Other Strategies for Helping Children, Adolescents and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder - Stephen Garber, et al, Harper Collins Press
   
4. The Misunderstood Child: Understanding and Coping with Your Child’s Learning Disabilities - Larry Silver, Times Books
   
5. It’s Nobody’s Fault: New Hope and Help for Difficult Children and Their Parents - Harold S. Koplewicz, Times Books
   
6. Eagle Eyes: A Child’s Guide to Paying Attention - Jeanne M. A. Gehret, Verbal Images Press
   
7. Otto Learns about His Medicine: A Story about Medication for Children with ADHD - Sandra Ferraro, Magination
   
8. Jumpin’ Johnny Get Back to Work!: A Child’s Guide to ADHD/Hyperactivity - Michael Gordon, Ph.D., GSI Publications
   
9. The ADD Hyperactivity Workbook for Parents, Teachers and Kids - Harvey Parker, Impact Publications
   
10. Parenting a Child with Learning Disabilities: A Practical Empathetic Guide - Cheryl Gerson Tuttle, Lowell House
    
11. The Gift of Dyslexia: Why Some of the Smartest People Can’t Read and How They Can Learn - Ronald D. Davis, et al, Perigee
    
12. No One to Play With - Betty Osmon, Academic Therapy Publication
    
13. The Don’t-Give-Up Kid and Learning Differences - Jeanne M. A. Gehret, Verbal Images Press
    
14. Parents’ Guide to Attention Deficit Disorder and Parents’ Guide to Learning Disabilities - Stephen B. McCarney and Angela M. Bauer, Hawthorne Educational Services
    
15. All Kinds of Minds: A Young Student’s Book about Learning Abilities and Learning Disorders - Melvin D. Levine, Educators Publishing Service
    
16. Keeping A Head in School: A Student’s Book About Learning Abilities and Learning Disorders - Melvin D. Levine, Educators Publishing Service
    
17. Parenting a Child with a Learning Disability - Tuttle and Paquette, by Doubleday.
18. S. Garber, Beyond Ritalin, Harper
19. Betty B. Osman, Learning Disabilities and ADHD, John Wiley and Sons, Inc
20. Stephen Nowicki and Marshall Duke, Helping the Child Who Does Not Fit In, Peachtree Publishers
21. Sandra Rief, How to Reach/Teach Children with ADD/ADHD, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
22. Also
• Learning Disabilities Association of America, 412-341-2282
• CHADD-Children with Hyperactivity and Attention Deficit Disorder, local chapters: Cobb, Cherokee, Decatur/Dekalb: 770-381-8687, North Atlanta: 770-394-5970. Web address: www.chadd.org

Asthma, Allergies and Eczema

1. Children with Asthma: A Manual for Parents - Thomas Plaut, M.D., Pedipress
   
2. A Parents Guide to Asthma - Nancy Sander, Doubleday
   
3. I’m Tougher Than Asthma - Alden and Siri Carter, Albert Whitman and Co.
   
4. The Asthma Attack by Bo B. Bear - Charlotte Casterline, Info-All Book Co.
   
5. Sportsercise: A School Story about Exercise-Induced Asthma - Kim Gosselin, JayJo Books
   
6. The Lion Who Had Asthma - Jonathan London, Albert Whitman and Co.
   
7. All About Asthma - William and Vivian Ostrow, Albert Whitman and Co.
   
8. One Minute Asthma, What You Need to Know - Thomas F. Plaut, M.D., Pedipress, Inc.
   
9. Also:
• Scottish Rite Asthma Education Center, 404-250-2654
• American Academy of Allergy and Asthma www.aaaai.org
• Food Allergy Network-1-800-929-4040
• American Lung Association-1-800-Lung-USA
• Allergy and Asthma Foundation-1125 15th Ave., N.W., Suite 502, Washington, D.C. 20005, 1-800-7-Asthma
• Allergy and Asthma Network/Mothers of Asthmatics-3554 Chain Bridge Rd., Suite 200, Fairfax, VA 22030, 1-800-878-4403
• Lung Line, National Jewish Medical and Research Center 1-800-222-lung (5864)
  

Family Stresses

1. Alcoholism:  An Elephant in the Living Room, by Marion H.Typpo and Hill M. Hastings, Compcare Publishing.  Hands-on workbook designed to help readers 4-8 understand their own feelings about having an alcoholic parent.
2. Dear Kids of Alcoholics, by Lindsey Hall and Leigh Cohm Gurze Design and Books, tells readers 8-17 about life with an alcoholic parent through the eyes of school-aged child.
3. Different Like Me:  A Book for Teens Who Worry about Their Parent's Use of Alcohol/Drugs, by Evelyn Leite and Pamela Espeland, Johnson Institute, A book about life with a parent who abuses alcohol or drugs that answers common questions frankly and empowers readers with a reassuring message.
4. Everything You Need to Know About An Alcoholic Parent, by Nancy Shuker, Rosen Publishing Group,  A realistic look at what alcoholism is, it's efect on the family and ways to find help and hope.
5. Divorce:  The Parents Book about Divorce, by Richard Gardner, M.D., Bantam Books, Timeless information for parents contemplating divorce.
6. The Boys and Girls Book about Divorce, by Richard Gardner, M.D., Bantam Books, Describes in simple and reassuring terms the emotional and practical issues of divorce.
7. Pet Loss, by Herbert A. Nueburg, Ph.D & Arlene Fischer, a thoughtful guide for adults and children, a must for animal lovers dealing with the loss of a pet.
8. Goodbye, Friend, by Gary Kowalski, Healing wisdom for anyone who has ever lost a pet.
9. The Loss of a Pet, by Wallace Sife, Ph.D, a guide to coping with the grieving process when a pet dies.