Books for Parents of Children from 13 years to 19 years:
Parenting Skills
 
The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap by Alvin Rosenfeld, MD and Nicole Wise
ISBN 312263392
Alvin Rosenfeld, MD, founder of National Family Night, and journalist Nicole Wise present the concept of hyper-parenting: endless extra-carriucular activities, appointments, and to-do lists and fears of one's child's under-achievement and find ways to encourage raising happy and emotionally healthy children.
To find out more about this topic, read Parenting Strategy Nine: Create Space for Joy, Humor and Spirit
  Loving Each One Best: A Caring and Practical Approach to Raising Siblings by Nancy Samalin
ISBN 553378341
Parenting expert and author Nancy Samalin says that when parents ask how they can get their children to listen more, she replies: “The answer is simple to understand, difficult to do. It’s talk less. Whatever you can say in a paragraph, say in a sentence. What you can say in a sentence, say in a word.”
To find out more about this topic, read Parenting Strategy Three, Listen, Talk and Guide With Lofe: Communication That Works.
 
Growing Up Again - Second Edition: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children by Connie Dawson and Jane Illsley Clarke
ISBN 1568381905
Clarke and Dawson use Erik Erikson's Stages of Development as a way to understand your child and find ways to nurture both them and yourself.
To find out more about this topic, read Erik Erikson's Stages Recognize Life as Opportunities to Grow
  The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon (3rd edition) by David Elkind
ISBN 0201039664
Elkind warns of the dangers of allowing your child to grow up too fast and offers advice on how to protect their childhood.
 
New Skills for Frazzled Parents: The Instruction Manual That Should Have Come With Your Child by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
ISBN 1886554021
Dr. Amen is a neuroscientist, psychiatrist and Director of the Amen Clinic. This manual is based on his parenting course. Amen has done extesive study on brain scaning and imagery.
  Love & Limits: Guidance Tools for Creative Parenting by Elizabeth Crary
ISBN 1884734049
Crary provides tools for parenting to help set limits and avoid powerstruggles in a way that is respectful of childrens' feelings. She uses a STAR principal (S-stop and focus; T-think of ideas; A-act effectively; R-review, revise, reward) as a way to problem solve.
 
Dealing With Disappointment: Helping Kids Cope When Things Don't Go Their Way
by Elizabeth Crary
ISBN 1884734758
Crary's guide encourages parents to help children aquire their own skills for dealing with disappointment. Helping them learn problem-solving, self-comfort, and what to do next is the best way to help them cope.
 
Using Your Values to Raise Your Child to Be an Adult You Admire by Harriet Heath, Ph.D.
ISBN 1884734367
In this book, Heath helps parents articulate and model their values for their children. Worksheet and examples guide parents through this process so that parents can in turn impart their values to their children.
 
Zen Parenting: The Art of Learning What You Already Know by Judith Costello and Jurgen Haver
ISBN 1589040171
Costello and Haver are the founders and editors of Parenting with Spirit, a magazine dedicated to examining child rearing from a spiritual perspective. Using short stories, they illustrate Zen concepts and provide examples on how to incorporate them into your parenting.
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