Brigidine College
 Library

 

Recommended Reading Material

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Why gender matters by Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.

Gender differences have major implications for best practices in education and also for effective parenting.

 

Girlosophy: a soul survival kit by Anthea Paul

A soul survival kit is a blueprint for life for all young women that urges each to find their own individual truth.

 

No Body’s perfect: stories by teenagers about body image, self-acceptance, and the search for identity by Kimberly Kirberger

 

The secret of happy children by Steve Biddulph

The author stresses the importance of  parent-child communication from babyhood to teens.

 

 

Adolescence: A guide for parents by Michael Carr-Gregg and Erin Shale

Suggestions for good parenting - open communication, strategies to deal with teenage issues such as depression and eating disorders and techniques to enable teenagers to become resilient adults **

 

 

Chasing ideas: the fun of freeing your child’s imagination by Christine Durham

As this book suggested stimulating your child’s imagination and curiosity can provide children with a love of seeking new ideas. **

 

 

Getting on with others: how to teach your child essential social skills by John Cooper **

 

 

Raising girls: understanding how girls are different – and how to help them grow up happy and strong by Gisela Preuschoff  **

 

Surviving Year 12: A sanity kit for students and their parents  by Michael Carr-Gregg.

Carr-Gregg one of Australia’s leading adolescent psychologists uses humour to guide students and their parents through all the stresses of Year 12.

 

 

Teen stages: how to guide their journey to adulthood by Elizabeth and Ken Mellor
The authors are internationally renowned parent educators who suggest that teenagers grow through six very different developmental stages and need lots of time and attention within a controlled environment.

 

**These books are published by Fisher Press and endorsed by Curriculum Corporation