Recommended Books

• The Continuum Concept
        by Jean Liedloff
  
• The Vital Touch: How Intimate
  Contact With Your Baby Leads to
  Happier, Healthier Development
        by Sharon Heller, Ph.D.
   
• Untouched: The Need for Genuine
  Affection in an Impersonal World
        by Mariana Caplan, M.A.
  
• Touching: The Human
  Significance of the Skin
        by Ashley Montagu
  
• Infant Massage:
  A Handbook for Loving Parents
        by Vimala Schneider McClure
  
• From One Child to Two
        by Judy Dunn
  
• Welcoming Your Second Baby
        by Vicki Lansky
   
• The Baby Book
        by William and Martha Sears
  
• The Birth Book
        by William and Martha Sears
  
• The Pregnancy Book
        by William and Martha Sears
   
• Nighttime Parenting
        by William Sears, Mary White
  
• Mind Over Labor
        by Carl Jones
  
• The Birth Partner
        by Penny Simkin
   
• Attachment Parenting: Instinctive
  Care for Your Baby and Young Child
        by Katie Allison Granju
  
• The Family Bed
        by Tine Thevenin
  
• Magical Child
        by Joseph Chilton Pearce
  
• The Aware Baby:
  A New Approach To Parenting
        by Aletha J. Solter, Ph.D.
  
• Birth Without Violence
        by Frederick LeBoyer
  
• Gentle Birth Choices:
  A Guide To Making Informed Decisions
  About Birthing Centers, Birth Attendants,
  Water Birth, Home Birth, And
  Hospital Birth
        by Barbara Harper, R.N.
  
• Immaculate Deception II
  Myths, Magic and Birth
        by Suzanne Arms
  
• Birthing from Within:
  An Extra-Ordinary Guide to
  Childbirth Preparation
        by Pam England, Rob Horowitz
  
• Spiritual Midwifery
        by Ina May Gaskin
  
• Our Babies, Ourselves:
  How Biology And Culture
  Shape The Way We Parent
        by Meridith F. Small
  
• What Your Doctor May Not Tell You
  About Circumcision: Untold Facts on America's Most Widely Performed
  and Most Unnecessary Surgery
        by Paul M. Fleiss, MD, and
        Frederick M. Hodges, D.Phil.
   

• The Continuum Concept
        by Jean Liedloff
  
• Playful Parenting
        by Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D.
   
• Raising A Thinking Child
        by Myrna B. Shure, Ph.D.
   
• Raising a Thinking Preteen
  The "I Can Problem Solve" Program
  for 8- to 12- Year-Olds
        by Myrna B. Shure, Ph.D.
  
• The Seven Habits of
  Highly Effective Families
        by Steven R. Covey
   
• Parent-Teen Breakthrough:
  The Relationship Approach
        by Myra Kirshenbaum
        and Charles Foster
   
• Your Child's Self Esteem
        by Dorothy C. Briggs
   
• The Vital Touch: How Intimate
  Contact With Your Baby Leads to
  Happier, Healthier Development
        by Sharon Heller, Ph.D.
   
• Untouched: The Need for Genuine
  Affection in an Impersonal World
        by Mariana Caplan, M.A.
  
• Touching: The Human
  Significance of the Skin
        by Ashley Montagu
   
• Infant Massage:
  A Handbook for Loving Parents
        by Vimala Schneider McClure
   
• Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons
  from the Myths of Boyhood
        by William Pollack and Mary Pipher
   
• The Aware Baby:
  A New Approach To Parenting
        by Aletha J. Solter, Ph.D.
   
• Helping Young Children Flourish
        by Aletha J. Solter, Ph.D.
   
• Mitten Strings for God:
  Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry
        by Katrina Kenison
        and Melanie Marder Parks
   
• When Your Kids Push Your Buttons
        by Bonnie Harris
   
• I Love You Rituals
        by Becky A. Bailey, Ph.D.
   
• Magical Child
        by Joseph Chilton Pearce
   
• Theraplay: Helping Parents and
  Children Build Better Relationships
  Through Attachment-Based Play
        by Ann M. Jernberg
        Phyllis B. Booth
   
• The Family Bed
        by Tine Thevenin
   
• Raising Resilient Children
        by Robert Brooks, Ph.D.
        and Sam Goldstein, Ph.D.
   
• Nighttime Parenting
        by William Sears, Mary White
   
• Beyond the Rainbow Bridge:
  Nurturing our children
  from birth to seven
        by Barbara Patterson
   
• The Irreducible Needs Of
  Children: What Every Child Must
  Have To Grow, Learn and Flourish
        by T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.
        and Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.

• Listening To Children
  (series of 8 small booklets)
        by Patty Wipfler
  Crying
  Healing Children's Fears
  Setting Limits With Children
  Tantrums and Indignation
  Reaching For Your Angry Child
  Supporting Adolescents
  Playlistening
  Special Time
   
• Everyday Blessings:
  The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
        by Myla and John Kabot-Zinn
  
• Siblings Without Rivalry
        by Faber & Mazlish
  
• Child/Family Wellness
        by Meryn G. Callander
        & John W. Travis, M.D.
        (Free online book)

• It's all about WE:
  Rethinking Discipline Using Restitution
        by Diane Gossen
  
• Easy To Love, Difficult To Discipline:
  The 7 Basic Skills for Turning
  Conflict into Cooperation
        by Becky A. Bailey, Ph.D.
   
• For Your Own Good:
  Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing
  and the Roots of Violence
        by Alice Miller
  
• High Risk:
  Children Without
  A Conscience
        by Magid and McKelvey
  
• Tears and Tantrums:
  What to Do When
  Babies and Children Cry
        by Aletha J. Solter, Ph.D.
  
• Building The Bonds of Attachment:
  Awakening Love In Deeply
  Troubled Children
        by Daniel A. Hughes
  
• Theraplay: Helping Parents and
  Children Build Better Relationships
  Through Attachment-Based Play
        by Ann M. Jernberg
        Phyllis B. Booth
   
• Playful Parenting
        by Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D.
  
• Punished by Rewards:
  The Trouble with Gold Stars,
  Incentive Plans, A's, Praise,
  and Other Bribes
        by Alfie Kohn
  
• Raising Your Spirited Child
        by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
   
• Kids, Parents and Power Struggles
        by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
  
• The Explosive Child:
  A New Approach for
  Understanding and Parenting
  Easily Frustrated, Chronically
  Inflexible Children
        by Ross W. Greene
  
• The Out-Of-Sync Child:
  Recognizing and Coping With
  Sensory Integration Dysfunction
        by Carol Stock Kranowitz
        and Larry B. Silver
   

• Miseducation:
  Preschoolers at Risk
        by David Elkind
  
• Learning All The Time
        by John Holt
  
• Escape From Childhood
        by John Holt
  
• Dumbing Us Down
        by John Taylor Gatto
  
• Walking On Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution
        by Derrick Jensen
  
• Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School
        by Grace Llewellyn & Amy Silver
  
• The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
        by Grace Llewellyn
   
• Seven Times the Sun:
  Guiding Your Child Through
  the Rhythms of the Day
        by Shea Darian
  
• The Children's Year: Crafts & Clothes
  for Children and Parents to Make
        by Stephanie Cooper,
        Christine Fynes-Clinton
        and Marye Rowling
   
• Earthways: Simple Environmental
  Activities for Young Children
        by Carol Petrash, Donald Cook
   
• Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots:
  Gardening Together With Children
        by Sharon Lovejoy
  
• Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
        by John Taylor Gatto

• Getting the Love You Want
        by Harville Hendrix
   
• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen
  and Listen So Kids Will Talk
        by Faber & Mazlish
   

Personal Growth

• The Power of Now
        by Eckhart Tolle
   
• Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting
        by Lynn Grabhorn

Magazines and Periodicals

• Mothering Magazine
  
• Kindred Magazine
  One Family - One World