These are the books we have recommended over and over again. They are tried and true. If you stick with them with whole hearted conviction, it will go a long way in helping you learn skills that will last you (and your children) a lifetime.

Essential Reading

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

By Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

Positive Discipline A-Z: 1001 Solutions to Everyday Parenting Problems (Positive Discipline Library)

By Jane Nelsen Ed.D., Lynn Lott, H. Stephen Glenn

Raising Your Spirited Child, Third Edition: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic

By Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

Discipline

Loving Your Child Is Not Enough: Positive Discipline That Works

By Nancy Samalin, Martha Moraghan Jablow

Siblings

Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too

By Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

Loving Each One Best: A Caring and Practical Approach to Raising Siblings

By Nancy Samalin

ADHD

Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents (Revised Edition) By Russell A. Barkley PhD ABPP ABCN

Paperback

Money

Growing Money: A Complete (and Completely Updated!) Investing Guide for Kids

By Gail Karlitz, Debbie Honig

Death

When Someone Dies

By Sharon Greenlee

Helping Children Grieve: When Someone They Love Dies (Revised Edition) by Huntley. Theresa M. ( 2002 ) Paperback

AUGSBURG BOOKS

You Hold Me and I'll Hold You

By Jo Carson

General Parenting

Are We Having Fun Yet?: The 16 Secrets of Happy Parenting

By Kay Willis, Maryann Bucknum Brinley

You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation

By Deborah Tannen

Boys Will Put You on a Pedestal (So They Can Look Up Your Skirt): A Dad's Advice for Daughters

By Philip Van Munching

Raising Boys

Boys and Girls Learn Differently! A Guide for Teachers and Parents

By Michael Gurian

The Wonder of Boys: What Parents, Mentors and Educators Can Do to Shape Boys into Exceptional Men

By Michael Gurian

Raising Boys, Third Edition: Why Boys Are Different--and How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-Balanced Men

By Steve Biddulph

Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys

By Dan Kindlon, Michael Thompson

Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children

By Michael Thompson, Cathe O'Neill-Grace, Lawrence J. Cohen, Catherine O'Neill Grace

The Good Son: Shaping the Moral Development of Our Boys and Young Men

By Michael Gurian

Raising Girls

Girls A History of Growing Up Female in America

By Penny Colman

A Lesser Life: The Myth of Women's Liberation in America

By Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Born For Liberty - A History Of Women In America

By Sara M. Evans

Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters

By Joann Deak

The Wonder of Girls: Understanding the Hidden Nature of Our Daughters

By Michael Gurian

Boys and Girls Learn Differently! A Guide for Teachers and Parents

By Michael Gurian

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

By Mary Pipher

Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence

By Rosalind Wiseman

Odd Girl Out, Revised and Updated: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls

By Rachel Simmons

miscellaneous

Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive: 10th Anniversary Edition

By Daniel J. Siegel, Mary Hartzell

Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children

By Jean Illsley Clarke, Connie Dawson

Understanding Temperament: Strategies for Creating Family Harmony

By Lyndall Shick