Parents Helping Parents
A non-profit, community-based, parent-directed family resource center. PHP provides lifetime guidance, supports and services to children with any special need, their families and the professionals who serve them.
Children and Nature Network
Marin Parents Network
Resources for Parents of Young Children on Parenting & Behavior Problems:
- The Explosive Child (Revised & Updated) by Ross Greene, Ph.D.
- SOS Help for Parents: A Practical Guide for Handling Common Everyday Behavior Problems by Lynn Clark, Ph.D.
- 1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 by Thomas Phelan
- Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child : Eliminating Conflict by Establishing Clear, Firm, and Respectful Boundaries by Robert MacKenzie, Ed.D.
Resources for Young Children on Bullying:
- Just Kidding by Trudy Ludwig
- Enemy Pie by Derek Munson
Bullies Are a Pain in the Brain by Trevor Romain - Bullies to Buddies: How to Turn Your Enemies Into Friends by Izzy Kalman
Resources for Parents of Teenagers:
- Staying Connected to Your Teenager: How to Keep Them Talking to You and How to Hear What They’re Really Saying by Michael Riera
- Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall: A Parent’s Guide to the New
- Teenager, Revised and Updated by Anthony Wolf, Ph.D.
- Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers by Michael Riera
Resources for Sibling Rivalry
- Siblings: You’re Stuck With Each Other, So Stick Together by James Christ & Elizabeth Verdick
- Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together so You Can Live Too by Adele Faber & Mazlish
- Keep the Siblings, Lose the Rivalry by Dr. Todd Cartmell
- Beyond Sibling Rivarly: How to Help Your Children Become Cooperative, Caring, and Compassionate by Peter Goldenthal, Ph.D.
Resources for Families Coping With Divorce:
Books For Children Ages 4 – 6
- Dinosaurs Divorce by Laurene Brown & Marc Brown
- Mama and Daddy’s Bear’s Divorce by Cornelia Maude Spelman
- Two Homes by Claire Masurel
- Standing On My Own Two Feet: A Child’s Affirmation of Love in the Midst of Divorce by Tamara Schmitz
- It’s Not Your Fault, Koko Bear: A Read-Together Book for Parents and Young Children During Divorce by Vicki Lansky
Books For Children Ages 7 – 9
- Kids are Non-Divorceable: A Workbook for Divorced Parents and Their Children by Sara Bonkowski
- Through The Eyes of Children: Healing Stories for Children of Divorce by Janet Johnston, Karen Breunig, Carla Garrity & Mitchell Baris
- What Can I Do: A Book for Children of Divorce by Danielle Lowry
Books For Children Ages 10 – 14
- How To Survive Your Parents’ Divorce: Kids’ Advice to Kids by Gayle Kimball
- It’s Not the End of the World by Judy Blume
- Will Dad Ever Move Back Home? by Paula Hogan
Books For Adults
- Good Parenting Through Your Divorce by Mary Ellen Hannibal
- What About The Kids? Raising Your Children Before, During, and After Divorce by Judith Wallerstein
- Uncommon Sense for Parents With Teenagers by Michael Riera
