Family Resources
Recommended books on parenting, technology and wellbeing.
Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls gives girls, parents and educators proven and innovative strategies for navigating social dynamics online, as well as brand new classroom initiatives and step-by-step parental suggestions for dealing with conventional bullying. Including the latest research and real-life stories, Odd Girl Out continues to be the definitive resource on the most pressing social issues facing girls today.
Odd Girl Speaks Out is a collection of wonderful accounts of the inner lives of adolescent girls. Candid and disarming, creative and expressive, and always exceptionally self-aware, these poems, songs, confessions, and essays form a journal of American girlhood. They show us how deeply cruelty flows and how strongly these girls want to change.
Odd Girl Out helped girls find their voices; Odd Girl Speaks Out helps them tell their stories.
Quiet Power: The Strengths of Introverted Kids challenges the way we see introverts and the way introverts see themselves with a focus on kids -- school, extracurriculars, family life, and friendship. This insightful, accessible, and empowering book, illustrated with amusing comic-style art, will be eye-opening to extroverts and introverts alike.
There's a guide at the end of the book for parents and teachers.
Bully Proof: Practical Strategies is designed to provide parents, educators, and coaches with concepts, story telling, and practical strategies to help guide children on the path to let go of fear and embrace personal growth. Children can build strong, ethical character traits that go way beyond being competent with bullies.
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness is a must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech-and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.
Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the "collective action problems" that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.
The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World is packed with surprising facts, a graphic novel, interactive challenges, secrets that tech leaders don’t want kids to know, and real-life anecdotes from young adults who regret getting smartphones at a young age and want to help the next generation avoid making the same mistakes.
But this isn’t just a book about what not to do. It’s a bold, optimistic, and practical guide to growing into your most authentic, confident, and adventurous self. Readers won’t just discover how to avoid becoming the next Anxious Generation. They’ll learn how to become amazing.
Books to add:
Gift of Self Esteem — confirm author with Susan … is this a workbook?
Kids These Days, Jody Carrington (CPL) (Owl’s Nest Books)
Thriving with ADHD Workbook for Kids: 60 Fun Activities to Help Children Self-Regulate, Focus, and Succeed, Kelli Miller (not at CPL) (Owl’s Nest Books)
Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope with Explosive Feelings, Christine Fonseca (CPL) (Owl’s Nest Books)
Other ideas (first link is to CPL, second link is to Owl’s Nest :)
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up A Generation For Failure - Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt (CPL) or purchase at Owl’s Nest Books
My Brain Needs Glasses: ADHD Explained to kids - Vincent Annick (CPL) or purchase at Owl’s Nest Books
Rest, Play Grow: Making Sense of Preschoolers (or Anyone Who Acts Like One) - Deborah MacNamara (CPL) or purchase at Owl’s Nest Books
Say More: Consent Conversations For Teens - Kitty Stryker (CPL) or purchase at Owl’s Next Books
The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Live Better, Feel Better - Jenny Anderson (CPL) or purchase at Owl’s Next Books
Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions Into Adulthood - Lisa Damour (CPL) or purchase at Owl’s Next Books
The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents - Lisa Damour (CPL) or purchase at Owl’s Next Books
The Anxiety Audit: 7 Sneaky Ways Anxiety Takes Hold and How To Escape Them - Lynn Lyons (CPL) or purchase at Owl’s Nest Books
** currently linking book images to Amazon.ca … could change to link to a local bookstore?