Parent Book List

Parents often ask us for guidance in understanding and responding to their children. These titles are highly recommended by PIFS staff, and are available in our main office.

AMES, LOUISE BATES
School Readiness
Don't Push Your Preschooler
Your 1 Year Old (Fun-Loving, 12 to 24 Month Old)
Your 2 Year Old (Terrible or Tender)
Your 3 Year Old (Friend or Enemy)
Your 4 Year Old (Wild and Wonderful)
Your 5 Year Old (Sunny and Serene)
Your 6 Year Old (Loving and Defiant)

The Yale University Gesell Institute resident expert explains your little angel in each stage of his or her development.

BOS, BEV
Before the Basics
Together We're Better
Don't Move The Muffin Tins

These are manuals for early childhood teachers, but contain many words of wisdom for parents as well. Bev makes such good sense.

BROOKS, ANDREE
Children Of Fast Track Parents

COHN, ALFIE
Punished By Rewards

Bev Bos recommends this book to understand the way children build self-esteem, and the ways that rewards can weaken their feelings of self-worth.

ELKIND, DAVID
The Hurried Child (3)
All Grown Up & No Place to Go
Miseducation at a Young Age: Preschoolers at Risk

The Elkind books should be required reading for all Greenwich parents!

FEINGOLD, BEN
Why Your Child Is Hyperactive

FRAIBERG, SELMA
The Magic Years

GARDNER, HOWARD
Multiple Intelligences -Another Bev Bos favorite

GLENN, STEPHEN & NELSEN, JANE
I'm On Your Side
Raising Self -Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World
Raising Children For Success

By the man who originated the "Developing Capable People" courses

FABER, ADELE & MAZLISH, ELAINE
Liberated Parents, Liberated Children:Your Guide To A Happier Family
How To Talk So Your Child Will Listen and Listen So Your Children Will Talk
Siblings Without Rivalry

Adele Faber spoke at PIFS two years ago and parents loved her.

GURIAN, MICHAEL
The Wonder Of Boys

This is a great, great book about why boys are the way they are, and how we can help them

GRANT, JIM
I Hate School

Explanations of school readiness

HALLOWELL, EDWARD
Driven to Distraction
Answers to Distraction

Very helpful books about ADD and ADHD

HEALY, JANE
Failure To Connect

An essential book about the adverse effects of computer use on young children.

KINDLON, DAN & THOMPSON, MICHAEL
Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys

Michael Thompson has spoken at Brunswick. This is an important book for parents and teachers of boys.

MAURICE, CATHERINE
Let Me Hear Your Voice

A mother's story of rescuing two children from autism.

PIPHER, MARY
Reviving Ophelia: Saving The Selves Of Adolescent Girls
The Shelter Of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families

These books have been best-sellers and need no explanation.

POLLACK, WILLIAM
Real Boys
Real Boys should be required reading for parents of teenage and potential teenage boys.

STOWE, VIRGINIA
Tired Of Nagging? 30 Days to Positive Parenting

PIFS' latest speaker was a hit with parents. Who doesn't need help to avoid nagging?

TURECKI, STANLEY
The Difficult Child
This well-known book describes the child and how to help him through the many things that bother him.