The Go-To Mom’s Personal Favorites

Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child, Gottman, (1998)

Kids, Parents and Power Struggles, Kurcinka, Mary Sheedy (2001)

How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk, Faber, A., (1995)

Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards And Punishments to Love And Reason, Kohn, A., (2005)

Playful Parenting, Lawrence J. Cohen (2002)

Between Parent and Child: The Bestselling Classic That Revolutionized Parent-Child Communication, Dr. Haim G Ginott, Alice Ginott, (2003)

Parents Under Siege: Why You Are the Solution, Not the Problem, in Your Child's Life, Garbarino, J. & Bedard, C. (2001)

Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education, Sobel, David (1996)

Last Child In The Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder, Louv, R., (2005)

Bringing Up Baby: Three Steps to Making Good Decisions in Your Child’s First Years, Dombro & Lerner (2005)

Parenting From the Inside Out: How a Deeper Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive, Siegel D., (2001)

The Whole Parent: How to Become a Terrific Parent Even if You Didn’t Have One, Wesselman, D., (1998)

Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: Transforming Parent-child Relationships from Reaction And Struggle to Freedom, Power And Joy , Aldort, ( 2006)

The Epidemic:  The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive Parenting and the Resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish Children, Shaw, Robert (2004)

How Children Learn, Caldwell & Holt, (1995)

Got The Baby, Where's The Manual?!? Respectful Parenting From Birth Through The Terrific Twos, Baum, (2007)

Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn and Why they Need to Play More and Memorize Less, Hirsh-Pasek & Golinkoff (2003)

Mommy Guilt: Learn To Worry Less, Focus On What Matters Most, And Raise Happier Kids, Pflock, and Devra Renner, (2005)

Baby on Board: Becoming a Mother Without Losing Yourself - A Guide for Moms-to-Be, Jay & Kovarick, (2007)

The Moms on Call Guide to Basic Baby Care: The First 6 Months, Hunter & Walker, (2007)

And Baby Makes Three, Gottman & Schwartz Gottman, (2007)

Parenting From Your Heart: Sharing the Gifts of Compassion, Connection and Choice, Kashtan, I (2005)

What Babies Say Before They Can Talk: The Nine Signals Infants Use to Express Their Feelings, Holinger, P. (2003)

The Parent's Toolshop: The Universal Blueprint for Building a Healthy Family, Pawel, (2000)

Smart Love: The Compassionate Alternative to Discipline That Will Make You a Better Parent and You Child a Better Person, Pieper & Pieper, (1999)