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Title: 100 ways to build self-esteem and teach values
Author: diana Loomans with Julia Loomans
ISBN: 1-932073-01-9
Colour: Yellow
Summary: The '100 ways' are the 100 sections, and each section contains dozens of powerful techniques for creating more love and less fear, more joy and less pain, more achievement and less failure in children.

Title: A Volcano In my Tummy
Author: Eliane Whitehouse & Warwick Pudney
ISBN: 0-86571-349-9
Colour: Yellow
Summary: This book is about helping 6 to 15 year olds handle their anger so that they can live successfully, healthily, happly and nonviolently, with motivation, without fear and with good relationships.

Title: ADHD In The Young Child Driven To Redirection
Author: Cathy Reimers, PhD & Bruce A. Brunger
ISBN: 1-886941-32-7
Colour: Yellow
Summary: A guide for parents and teachers of young children with ADHD.

Title: An Indigo Celebration
Author: Lee Carroll and Jan Tober
ISBN: 1-56170-859-3
Colour: Yellow
Summary: More messages, stories and insights from the Indigo Children.

Title: Angry Children, Worried Parents
Author: Sam Goldstein, Robert Brooks & Sharon Weiss
ISBN: 1-886941-58-0
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Seven steps to help families manage anger
Evaluations:
  • "Good ideas which can be simply put into practice. Easy to understand".

Title: Beyond Ritalin
Author: Stephen Garber, Marianne Daniels & Robyn Spizman
ISBN: 0-06-097725-6
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Facts about medication and other strategies for helping children, adolescents and adults with Attention Deficit Disorders

Title: Complete Guide to ADHD
Author: Thom Hartmann
ISBN: 1-887414-52-0
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Learn simple tips and techniques that can change your life. Help for your family at home, school and work.

Title: Confident Parents, Confident Children
Author: Gillian Pugh, Erica De'Ath & Ceilia Smith
ISBN: 1-874579-37-7
Colour: Yellow
Summary: This book looks at the challenges facing parents at the end of the 20th century, at changes in society and in family patterns, at the skills involved in bringing up children, and what could be done to make parenting more enjoyable, more satisfying and better supported.

Title: Creating Kids who Can
Author: Jean Robb and Hilary Letts
ISBN: 0-340-82043-8
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Practical and proven ways to boost their self esteem every day.

Title: Creating Kids Who Can Concentrate
Author: Jean Robb & Hilary Letts
ISBN: 0-340-68201-9
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Proven strategies for beating ADD without drugs

Title: Detoxing Childhood
Author: Sue Palmer
ISBN: 978-0-7528-9010-4
Colour: Yellow
Summary: In Toxic Childhood, the controversial book that started a national debate, Sue Palmer explained the complex web of factors that makes child-rearing today so, difficult. Now, in her latest book, she provides a range of easy-to-follow tips and strategies to help parents solve these problems

Title: Disorganized Children
Author: Samuel M. Stein & Uttom chowdhury
ISBN: 1-84310-148-3
Colour: Yellow
Summary: This book explores the multi-disciplinary approaches, which may successfully address many of the difficulties faced by disorganised children, avoiding labelling and inappropriate medicalisation of problems, which can be managed psychologically or educationally.

Title: Does your child have a hidden disability?
Author: Jill Curtis
ISBN: 0-340-78679-5
Colour: Yellow
Summary: This book guides you through the maze of conflicting advice and offers support to those parents who may need help.

Title: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff…
Author: Richard Carlson
ISBN: 0-340-70801-8
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Simple ways to keep the little things from overtaking your life.

Title: Dreamers, Discoveries & Dynamos
Author: Lucy Jo Palladino
ISBN: 0-345-40573-0
Colour: Yellow
Summary: How to help the child who is bright, bored, and havings problems at school

Title: Growing Great Boys
Author: Ian Grant
ISBN: 978-0-09-192352-5
Colour: Yellow
Summary: 100s of practical strategies for bringing out the best in your son. An essential and easy to follow guide to bringining up boys from vital pre-school years through to the challenging teenage ones.

Title: Holistic Parenting
Author: Lynn Wiese Sneyd
ISBN: 0-658-00306-2
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Holistic Parenting is chock full of information that every parent must know in order to raise helathy, happy kids in today's world.

Title: How To Behave so Your Children Will Too!
Author: Dr. Sal Severe
ISBN: 0-09-182360-9
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Practical strategies to make discipline simple and your life easier.
Evaluations:
  • (1) Wouldn't recommend it - "Did not think it was much good for me. (2) Good content, helpful, informative, easy to read and would recommend it. "Would be helpful for all parents - good practical tips, guidance and skills.

Title: How To Handle A Hard To Handle Child
Author: C. Drew Edwards
ISBN: AF-16
Colour: Yellow
Evaluations:
  • Good content, Helpful, Informative, would recommend it. "Very good information"

Title: How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids W
Author: Adele Fraser & Elaine Mazlish
ISBN: 0-380-81196-0
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know-how you need to be more effective with your children - and more supportive of yourself.
Evaluations:
  • Good content and would recommend it.
  • Helpful and would recommend it. "Easy to follow lessons".

Title: How to Talk so Teens will Listen & Listen so Teens
Author: Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
ISBN: 1-85340-857-3
Colour: Yellow
Summary: In this revolutionary, must-have book for parents, these best selling authors turn their down to earth, respectful approach to parenting to the specific troubles of the teenage years.

Title: Hyperactive Child
Author: Belinda Barnes and Sally Bunday
ISBN: 0-9545933-1-6
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: a practical self help guide for parents, teachers and health professionals

Title: Hyperactive Child
Author: Belinda Barnes & Irene Colquhoun
ISBN: 0-7225-3531-7
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a practical self help guide for parents

Title: Is That My Child?
Author: Dr. Robin Pauc
ISBN: 0-7535-1064-2
Colour: Yellow
Summary: In the biggest breakthrough in history of learning difficulties, this book explains the cause of Developmental Delay Syndromes, uses simple, east-to-follow tips to show you how to greatly reduce the risk of your child suffering, and gives advice on what can be done to treat those children that do.

Title: Liberated Parents, Liberated Children
Author: Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
ISBN: 1-85340-707-0
Colour: Yellow
Summary: An invaluable guide to bringing out the best in relationshiops between parents and children, from the bestselling authors of Siblings Without Rivalry and How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk.

Title: Make Your Child Brilliant
Author: Bernadette Tynan
ISBN: 978-1844-00-579-6
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Uncovering your child's hidden gifts.

Title: Manhood
Author: Steve Biddulph
ISBN: 009189481-6
Colour: Yellow
Summary: From the bestselling author of Raising Boys, a clear and practical road map for men wanting to enrich their lives, and for parents wanting the best future for their sons.

Title: Marching To A Different Tune
Author: Jacky Fletcher
ISBN: 1-85302-810-X
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Diary about an ADHD Boy.

Title: No More ADHD
Author: Dr. Mary Ann Block
ISBN: 0-9665545-3-1
Colour: Yellow
Summary: 10 steps to help improve your child's attention and behaviour without drugs.

Title: Positive Parenting
Author: Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer
ISBN: 0-7493-1501-6
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Raising children with self-esteem

Title: Raising A Thinking Child
Author: Myrna B. Shure Ph.D
ISBN: 0-671-53463-7
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Help your young child to resolve everyday conflicts and get along with others.

Title: Raising Cain
Author: Dan Kindlon & Michael Thompson
ISBN: 0-14-027970-9
Colour: Yellow
Summary: A long-needed insight into the psyche of boys. Every parent, teacher or anyone who wants boys to flourish, should read this book.

Title: Siblings Without Rivalry
Author: Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
ISBN: 1-85340-630-9
Colour: Yellow
Summary: This is a comprehensive guide with practical guidelines and examples for how to cope with, and deflect, sibling rivalry.

Title: Sleep Better!
Author: V. Mark Durand
ISBN: 1-55766-315-7
Colour: Yellow
Summary: A guide to improving sleep for children with special needs.

Title: Sleeping Like A Baby
Author: Avi Sadeh
ISBN: 0-300-08824-8
Colour: Yellow
Summary: A sensitive and sensible approach to solving your child's sleep problems

Title: Supernanny
Author: Jo Frost
ISBN: 0-340-89516-0
Colour: Yellow
Summary: How to get the best from your children

Title: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families
Author: Stephen R. Covey
ISBN: 0-684-86008-2
Colour: Yellow
Summary: This book offers previous lessons in creating and sustaining a strong family culture in a turbulent world.

Title: The ADD/ADHD Checklist
Author: Sandra Rief, M.A.
ISBN: 0-13-762395-X
Colour: Yellow
Summary: An easy reference for parents and teachers

Title: The ADHD Parenting Handbook
Author: Colleen Alexander-Roberts
ISBN: 0-87833-862-4
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Practical advice for parents from parents. Proven techniques for raising hyperactive children without losing your temper
Evaluations:
  • Re-inforces knowledge from other sources and outlines coping strategies well.

Title: The Care And Feeding Of Indigo Children
Author: Doreen Virtue
ISBN: 1-56170-846-1
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Indigo children are bright, intuitive, strong-willed, and sometimes self destructive individuals. They are often labeled (and misdiagnosed) as having ADD or ADHD because they won't comply with established rules and patterns,and they may exhibit behavioural problems at home and at school.
Evaluations:
  • (1) Liked, good content, helpful, informative, easy to read, practical and would recommend it. "I'm a clairvoyant, psychic medium and healer myself so enjoyed it immensely - confirmed what I already knew about myself and family. (2) Liked, good content, informative, would recommend it. "Some interesting ideas, some difficult to follow. Definitely a 'take what you need' book".

Title: The Difficult Child
Author: Dr. Stanley Turecki
ISBN: 0-7499-1488-2
Colour: Yellow
Summary: How to understand and cope with your temperamental 2-6 year old

Title: The Einstein Syndrome
Author: Thomas Sowell
ISBN: 0-465-08140-1
Colour: Yellow
Summary: In addition to the latest scientific findings about late-talking children, it is packed with deep compassion, uncommon wisdom and unusually helpful no-nonsense practical advice for parents of late-talking children.

Title: The Explosive Child
Author: Ross W. Greene, Ph.D
ISBN: 978-0-06-077939-9
Colour: Yellow
Summary: A new approach for understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children.

Title: The Gift of ADHD
Author: Lara Honos-Webb, PhD
ISBN: 1-57224-389-9
Colour: Yellow
Summary: How to transform your child's problems into strengths.

Title: The Good Child Guide
Author: Dr. Noel Swanson
ISBN: 1-85410-704-6
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Informal, witty and admirably clear, this book offers a superbly comprehensible step by step method for understanding the reasons for children' behaviour, reasserting parental control and encouraging them to behave well again.

Title: The Indigo Children 10 yrs later
Author: Lee Carroll & Jan Tober
ISBN: 978-1-84850-077-8
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Bright,intelligent,strong willed and active, the Indigo children were seen as part of a spiritual revolution, the children of a new age of psychic growth and understanding. Ten years later the Indigo children are now Indigo teenagers finishing school, start work and facing entirely new challenges.

Title: The Mislabeled Child
Author: Brock Eide, M.D., M.A., & Fernette Eide, M.D.
ISBN: 1-4013-0225-4
Colour: Yellow
Summary: How understanding your child's unique learning style can open the door to success.

Title: The Myth Of Laziness
Author: Dr. Mel Levine
ISBN: 0-7432-4865-1
Colour: Yellow
Summary: How kids and parents can become more productive.

Title: The Pampered Child Syndrome
Author: Maggie Mamen
ISBN: 1-84310-407-5
Colour: Yellow
Summary: How to recognise it, how to manage it and how to avoid it.

Title: The Procrastinating child
Author: Rita Emmett
ISBN: 1-904132-21-9
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Emmett provides strategies for breaking through a child's defence mechanisms or reluctance to talk and for establishing rules and guidelines that encourage young children and teenagers alike to face obligations in a timely way.

Title: The Secret of Happy Children
Author: Steve Biddulph
ISBN: 0-7225-3669-0
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Helps you with parent-child communication from babyhood to teens. It has received widespread praise as a book which gives you heart to be more yourself as a parent - stronger, more loving, more definite, more relaxed.

Title: The Social Toddler
Author: Helen & Clive Dorman
ISBN: 1-903275-38-5
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Understanding toddlers, and why they do the things they do

Title: Understanding 12-14 year olds
Author: Margot Waddell
ISBN: 1-84310-367-2
Colour: Yellow
Summary: The book provide practical and sensitive support for parents to help them relate to and communicate with their child at a difficult time of transition.

Title: Understanding ADHD
Author: Dr. Christopher Green
ISBN: 0-09-181700-5
Colour: Yellow
Summary: A parent's guide to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children.

Title: Understanding ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia & Dyspraxi
Author: Professor Colin Terrell & Dr. Terri Passenger
ISBN: 1-903474-27-2
Colour: Yellow
Summary: This book is published in association with The British Medical Association and it describes the four most common disorders of childhood

Title: Understanding Girls With ADHD
Author: K.G. Nadeau, E.B. Littman & P.O.Quinn
ISBN: 0-9660366-5-4
Colour: Yellow
Summary: This book is for parents, teachers and other professionals who want to learn how to recognise and help girls with ADHD. Checklists for preschool, elementary, middle and high school levels are provided to help identify girls with ADHD.

Title: What Do You Really Want For Your Children?
Author: Wayne W. Dyer
ISBN: 0-380-73047-2
Colour: Yellow
Summary: This book reveals how to help your kids take charge of their own happiness with many useful strategies parents can use to help your child.

Title: What Kids Need To Succeed
Author: Peter L. Benson, Judy Galbraith & Pamela Espeland
ISBN: 1-57542-030-9
Colour: Yellow
Summary: Proven, practical ways to raise good kids.

Title: Whatever!
Author: Gill Hines & Alison Baverstock
ISBN: 0-7499-2723-2
Colour: Yellow
Summary: A down to earth guide to parenting teenagers. A practical guide to help teenagers, their parents and the whole family - with tried and tested strategies for every situation, which you can put into practice immediately.

Title: When You Worry About the Child You Love
Author: Edward Hallowell
ISBN: 9-780684-83285
Colour: Yellow
Summary: A reassuring guide to solving your child's emotional and learning problems.

Title: When Your Kids Push Your Buttons
Author: Bonnie Harris
ISBN: 0-7499-2439-X
Colour: Yellow
Summary: This book shows that it is your own attitudes and perceptions, rather than your child's behaviour, that spark your anger - and your ideas ofhow your child should behave are often based on your own relationship with your parents.

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