Favorite Resources for Parents of Teens

Parenting Approaches for Teens

  • Parent as Coach: Helping Your Teen Build a Life of Confidence, Courage and Compassion by Diana Haskins Sterling (2001)
  • Parent/Teen Breakthrough: The Relationship Approach . . . to End Battles with Your Pre-Teens and Teens by Mira Kirshenbaum and Charles Foster Ph.D. (1995)
  • Parenting Teens with Love and Logic:  Preparing Adolescents for a Responsible Adulthood by Foster Cline MD and Jim Fay  (1993)
  • Positive Discipline for Teenagers: Empowering Your Teen and Yourself Through Kind and Firm Parenting by Jane Nelson Ed.D. and Lynn Lott (2000)
  • Uncommon Sense for Parents of Teenagers by Michael Riera Ph.D. (2004)

Addressing Risky Behavior

  • Lonely, Sad and Angry: How to Help Your Unhappy Child by Barbara Ingersoll Ph.D. and Sam Goldstein Ph.D. (2001)
  • The Sex Lives of Teenagers: Revealing the Secret World of Adolescent Boys and Girls by Lynn E Ponton MD (2001)
  • Date Rape Backlash: Media and the Denial of Rape
  • *Deadly Persuasion: The Advertising of Alcohol and Tobacco with Jean Kilbourne
  • *Dream Worlds 2: Desire, Sex and Power in the Music Industry
  • *Game Over: Gender, Race and Violence in Video Games
  • Selling Addictions and Deadly Persuasion: The Advertising of Alcohol and Tobacco
  • *Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies and Alcohol with Jean Kilbourne/Jackson Katz. Focuses on the normalization of alcohol abuse despite that its use leads to deaths, sexual assaults, and violence among our youth.
  • Teen Sexuality in an Age of Confusion
  • *Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity with Jackson Katz

Financial Education

  • No More Frogs to Kiss: 99 Ways to Give Economic Power to Girls by Joline Godfrey (1999)
  • Smart Kid, Rich Kid and Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kyosaki (2001) (2002)
  • Start Smart: Money Management for Teens. How to save, spend and protect your cash. www.fdic.gov

Coming of Age

  • Prairie Star Coming of Age Program. Contact Beth Brownfield at bethbrown@aol.com