Resources

Some of my favorite books related to parenting teens:

Untangled by Dr. Lisa Damour,

Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls, by Dr. Lisa Damour,

The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents by Dr. Lisa Damour,

Smart but Scattered Teens by Dr. Peg Dawson

Building Boys, Raising Great Guys in a World that Misunderstands Males by Jennifer L. W. Fink

Sensitive: THE Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World by Jenn Granneman & Andre Solo

The Emotionally Intelligent Child, Rachael Katz, MS. ED and Helen Shwe Hadani, PhD

7 Steps to College Success Elizabeth C. Hamblet

Screenwise by Devorah Heitner

The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults, by Frances E. Jensen & Amy Ellis Nutt

The Scaffold Effect: Raising Resilient, Self-Reliant and Secure Kids in an Age of Anxiety by Harold Koplewicz

The Sleep-Deprived Teen, Why Our Teenagers Are So Tired and How Parents and Schools Can Help Them Thrive, by Lisa Lewis

The Good News About Bad Behavior by Katharine Reynolds Lewis

WISE DECISIONS: A Science-Based Approach to Making Better Decisions  by Dr. Jim Loehr and Dr. Sheila Ohlsson

You’ll Make It (and They Will Too): Everything No one Talks About When You’re Parenting Teens by Amy Betters-Midtvedt 

You’re Not a Failure: My Teen Doesn’t Like Me Either by Whitney Fleming

Loving Hard When They’re Hard to Love by Whitney Fleming

What Do I Want to Be When They Grow Up? by Karen Johnson

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