Health Information

American Academy of Pediatrics In-Depth Information on Children’s Health Issues
CDC (Center for Disease Control) Variety of Public Health and Safety Issues
Department of Health and Human Services Parents: Raising Safe, Healthy Kids
Healthy Children.org Wonderful web resource created by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
KidsHealth.com Sections for Parents, Teens & Younger Children
National Institutes of Health: Children’s Health Basics/Latest Research
Rhode Island Department of Health – Health Information Specific to RI
Mayo Clinic Diseases and Conditions

BOOKS

GENERAL PEDIATRICS

Infants and Mothers. BY: T. Berry Brazelton.
Nursing Mother’s Companion. BY: Kathleen Higgins.
Mommy Made. BY: Martha Kimmel.
What To Expect the First Year. BY: A. Eisenberg.
The First Three Years of Life. BY: Burton L. White.
The Secret of Parenting. BY: Anthony Wolf.
Growing Up Happy. BY: Bob Keeshan.
Positive Discipline. BY: Jane Nelson.
Your One-Year-Old: The Fun-Loving, Fussy 12-To 24-Month-Old. BY: Louise Bates Ames and Frances L. Ilg
Your Two-Year-Old: Terrible or Tender. BY: Louise Bates Ames
Your Three-Year-Old: Friend or Enemy. BY: Louise Bates Ames and Frances L. Ilg
Your Four-Year-Old: Wild and Wonderful. BY: Louise Bates Ames
Your Five Year Old: Sunny and Serene. BY: Louise Bates Ames
Your Six-Year-Old: Loving and Defiant. BY: Louise Bates Ames and Frances L. Ilg
Your Seven-Year-Old: Life in a Minor Key. BY: Louise Bates Ames and Carol Chase Haber
Your Eight Year Old: Lively and Outgoing. BY: Louise Bates Ames and Carol Chase Haber
Your Nine Year Old: Thoughtful and Mysterious. BY: Louise Bates Ames and Carol Chase Haber
Your Ten- to Fourteen-Year-Old. BY: Louise Bates Ames and Carol Chase Haber
Child Behavior: The Classic Child Care Manual from the Gesell Institute of Human Development. BY: Francis L. Ilg, Louise Bates Ames, and Sydney M. Baker
Your Child’s Self Esteem. BY: Dorothy C. Briggs.
You and Your Child’s Self Esteem. BY: James M. Harris.
Complete Book of Breastfeeding. BY: Eiger, Marvin and Olds.
The Magic Years. BY: Selma Fraiberg.
Parenting Your Adopted Child. BY: Stephanie Siegel.
What Works with Children. BY: Edited by Marshall P. Duke and Sara B. Duke.
Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Five Years. BY: Steven P. Shelov.
American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child’s Symptoms: The Official Home Reference – Birth through Adolescence. BY: Donald Schiff.
Your Child’s Health: The Parents’ Guide to Symptoms, Emergencies, Common Illnesses, Behavior and School Problems. BY: Barton D. Schmitt.
The Wonder Years: Helping Your Baby and Young Child Successfully Negotiate the Major Development Milestones (hardcover). BY: American Academy of Pediatrics, Tanya Remer Altmann.

BEHAVIOR, PARENTING, AND DISCIPLINE

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk. BY: Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish.
Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too. BY: Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish.
Raising Your Spirited Child Rev Ed: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic. BY: Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
Parenting the Strong-Willed Child. BY: Forehand and Long.
Positive Discipline for Preschoolers, BY: Nelsen, Erwin and Duffy.
1,2,3 Magic. BY: Thomas Phelan.
Whining: 3 steps to stopping it before the tears and the tantrums start. BY: Ricker, Crowder.
Six Point Plan for Raising Happy, Healthy Children. BY: James Rosemont.
PET: Parent Effectiveness Training. BY: Thomas Gordon.
Making Children Mind without Losing Yours. BY: Dr. Kevin Leman.
Beyond Discipline; Parenting that Lasts a Lifetime. BY: Edward D. Christopherson.
Parenting a Child with a Learning Disability. BY: Tuttle and Paquette.
The Loving Parents Guide to Discipline: How to Teach Your Child to Behave With Kindness, Understanding and Respect. BY: Marilyn Gootman.
Loving Each One Best: A Caring and Practical Guide to Raising Siblings. BY: Nancy Samalin and Catherine Whitney.
Raising a Responsible Child; How Parents Can Avoid Indulging Too Much and Rescuing Too Often. BY: Elizabeth Ellis.
The Privileged Child BY: Madeline Levine.
The Wonder Years: Helping Your Baby and Young Child Successfully Negotiate the Major Developmental Milestones (hardcover). BY: American Academy of Pediatrics, Tanya Remer Altmann.
The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children. BY: Ross W. Greene

DEVELOPMENTAL CHALLENGES

Could it be Autism? Guide to the First Signs. BY: Nancy Wiseman.
The Out of Sync Child. BY: Kranowitz, C. Pedigree Publishing. (Explains sensory integration disorders in children with practical suggestions.)
It Takes Two to Talk. BY: Manolson, A. DESCRIPTION: A parent-oriented manual with a wealth of information and strategies for enhancing communication for children with social-communicative challenges. (available at www.hanen.org)
The Child with Special Needs: Encouraging intellectual and emotional growth. Greenspan BY: S.I. & Wieder, S.
Visual strategies for improving communication. BY: Hodgdon, l.

SLEEP

Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child. BY: Marc Weisbluth
Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems. BY: Richard Ferber.
Guide to Your Child’s Sleep. BY: G. Cohen.

VACCINATION INFORMATION

What Every Parent Should Know About Vaccines. BY: Paul Offit, Louis Bell, M.D.
Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine and the Search for a Cure. By: Paul Offit, M.D.

NUTRITION

American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child’s Nutrition: Making Peace at the Table and Building Healthy Eating Habits for Life. BY: William Dietz.
Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family. BY: Ellen Satter.
Coping With a Picky Eater; A Guide for the Perplexed Parent. BY: William G. Wilkoff.

PUBERTY AND TEENS

Reviving Ophelia. BY: Mary Pipher.
Caring for Your Adolescent Ages 12-21. BY: American Academy of Pediatrics.
Your Ten to Fourteen Year Old. BY: Louise Bates Ames.
The Care & Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls (American Girl Library). BY: Valorie Schaefer and Norm Bendell
The What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Sons. BY: Lynda Madaras.
The What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Daughters. BY: Lynda Madaras.
Raising a Thoughtful Teenager. BY: Ben Kamin.
Real Boys: Rescuing our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood. BY: William S. Pollack.
Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write about Their Search for Self. BY: Sara Shandler.
It’s So Amazing: A Book About Eggs, Sperm, Babies, and Family. BY: Robbie Harris.

SEX EDUCATION

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. BY: Linda and Richard Eyre.
When Sex is the Subject. BY: Pamela M. Wilson.
Love and Sex and Growing Up. BY: Eric W. Johnson.
All about Sex: A Family Resource on Sex and Sexuality. BY: Ronald F. Moglia and Jon Knowles.
Five Hundred Questions Kids Ask about Sex and Some of the Answers. BY: Francis Younger.
Sex is More than a Plumbing Lesson: A Parent’s Guide. BY: Patty Stark.
Sex is not a Four Letter Word! Talking with Your Children Made Easier. BY: Patricia Martens Miller.
Belly Buttons are Navels. BY: Mark Schoen.
How Were You Born? BY: Joanna Cole.
Where Did I Come From? The Facts without any Nonsense and with Illustrations. BY: Peter Mayle.
Where Do Babies Come From? BY: Susan Meredith.

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER

Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents. BY: Russell Barkley.
Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood through Adulthood. BY: Edward M. Hallowell.
Beyond Ritalin: Facts about Medication and Other Strategies for Helping Children, Adolescents and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder. BY: Stephen Garber.
Eagle Eyes: A Child’s Guide to Paying Attention. BY: Jeanne M. A. Gehret.
Otto Learns about His Medicine: A Story about Medication for Children with ADHD. BY: Matthew Galvin and Sandra Ferraro.
Jumpin’ Johnny Get Back to Work!: A Child’s Guide to ADHD/Hyperactivity. BY: Michael Gordon, Ph.D.
The ADD Hyperactivity Workbook for Parents, Teachers and Kids. BY: Harvey Parker.
Beyond Ritalin. BY: S. Garber.
Learning Disabilities and ADHD BY: Betty B. Osman.
How to Reach/Teach Children with ADD/ADHD. BY: Sandra Rief
Out of the Fog. BY: Murphy
Daydreamers and Daredevils. BY: Ingersoll

LEARNING DISABILITIES

Complete Learning Disabilities Handbook. BY: Joan Harwell.
A Parent’s Guide to Learning Disabilities: Understanding and Helping Your Child. BY: A D’Antoni, D. Minifie, E. Minifie.
1001 Ways to Improve Your Child’s School Work. BY: Lawrence Greene.
Smart Kids with School Problems. BY: Priscilla Vail.
Learning Styles. BY: Priscilla Vail.
The School Survival Guide for Kids with LD. BY: R. Cummings, G. Fisher.
Home is a Learning Place: A Parent’s Guide to Learning Disabilities. BY: H. Weiss, M. Weiss.
The Complete Learning Disabilities Directory. BY: Grey House Publishing.
Parenting a Child with a Learning Disability. BY: Tuttle and Paquette.
The Misunderstood Child: Understanding and Coping with Your Child’s Learning Disabilities. BY: Larry Silver.
It’s Nobody’s Fault: New Hope and Help for Difficult Children and Their Parents. BY: Harold S. Koplewicz.
No One to Play With. BY: Betty Osmon.
The Don’t-Give-Up Kid and Learning Differences. BY: Jeanne M. A. Gehret.
Parents’ Guide to Attention Deficit Disorder and Parents’ Guide to Learning Disabilities. BY: Stephen B. McCarney and Angela M. Bauer.
Helping the Child Who Does Not Fit In. BY: Stephen Nowicki and Marshall Duke.

INDIVIDUAL LEARNING STYLES

All Kinds of Minds: A Young Student’s Book about Learning Abilities and Learning Disorders. BY: Melvin D. Levine.
Keeping A Head in School: A Student’s Book About Learning Abilities and Learning Disorders. BY: Melvin D. Levine.
Educational Care. BY: Melvin D. Levine.
A Mind at a Time. BY: Melvin D. Levine.
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. BY: Howard Gardner

READING SKILLS

Classroom Success for the LD and ADD Child. BY: Suzanne Stevens.
Parenting a Struggling Reader: A Guide to Diagnosing and Finding Help for Your Child’s Reading Difficulties. BY: Susan L. Hall and Louisa Moats.
The Gift of Dyslexia. BY: Ron Davis.
Overcoming Dyslexia in Children, Adolescents and Adults. BY: Dale R. Jordan.
About Dyslexia: Unraveling the Myth. BY: Priscilla Vail.
The Many Faces of Dyslexia. BY: M. Rawson.
Dyslexia: The Language Disability That Can Be Overcome. BY: Orton Dyslexia Society.
Dyslexia: Especially for Parents . BY: Orton Dyslexia Society.
Overcoming Dyslexia. BY: Sally Shaywitz.

ASTHMA, ALLERGIES AND ECZEMA

Children with Asthma: A Manual for Parents. BY: Thomas Plaut.
A Parent’s Guide to Asthma. BY: Nancy Sander.
I’m Tougher Than Asthma. BY: Alden and Siri Carter.
The Asthma Attack by Bo B. Bear. BY: Charlotte Casterline.
Sportsercise: A School Story about Exercise-Induced Asthma. BY: Kim Gosselin.
The Lion Who Had Asthma. BY: Jonathan London.
All About Asthma. BY: William and Vivian Ostrow.
One Minute Asthma, What You Need to Know. BY: Thomas F. Plaut.
American Academy of Allergy and Asthma www.aaaai.org BY:
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
Lung Line, National Jewish Medical and Research Center 1-800-222-lung (5864)

ALCOHOLISM

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.)
Dear Kids of Alcoholics BY: Lindsey Hall and Leigh Cohm Gurze Design and Books. (tells readers age 8-17 about life with an alcoholic parent through the eyes of a school-aged child.)
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.)
Everything You Need to Know About An Alcoholic Parent BY: Nancy Shuker, Rosen Publishing Group. (A realistic look at what alcoholism is, its effect on the family and ways to find help and hope.)