PARENT EDUCATION BOOKS

 
CV CAN currently stocks several parent education books.  Please peruse the list below for the book that meets your current needs.  If you are interested in ordering one, please contact Traci Cross at 510-537-3335 x1936 or via email.

1. Tribe Apart: A Journey into the heart of American Adolescence $14.00
   The book challenges conventional expectations about masculinity; based upon the author’s research at Harvard Medical School
2. Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood $15.00
   The book challenges conventional expectations about masculinity; based upon the author’s research at Harvard Medical School
3. Real Boys Workbook: The Definitive Guide to Understanding and Interacting $16.00
   -With Boys of All Ages
4. Reaching Up For Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America $12.50
   A moving report that describes the emotional lives of boys.
5. I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression $15.00
   This gender study explores how “typically” male problems are really attempts to escape depression.
6. Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys $15.00
   The authors shed light on the destructive emotional training our boys receive and make a compelling case that emotional literacy is the most valuable gift we can offer our sons.
7. Who’s Raising Your Child: Battling the Marketers for Your Child’s Heart and Soul $13.00
   The authors offer timely advice to parents on how to mitigate the effects of a materialistic, poisonous culture, and to raise kids who care less about things and more about people.
8. It’s Not Fair, Jeremy Spencer’s parents let him stay up all night! $12.00
   Author Wolf’s groundbreaking book focuses o the most difficult challenges of parenting -- setting limits and making demands.
9. Get Out of My Life, but first could you drive me and Cheryl to the Mall? $12.00
   Author Wolf argues that today’s teenagers do act differently than their parents did at the same age (and thus, parents must come up with a new parenting approach).
10. Why Did You Have to Get a Divorce? And When Can I get Hamster?: $15.00
    A Guide to Parenting Through Divorce
11. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls $14.00
    This still very popular read examines why more American adolescent girls are prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempt more than ever before.
12. Queen Bees and Wannabes:  $15.00
    Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence.
13. Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, & the Confidence Gap $15.00
    Inspired by an American Association of University Women survey that showed a steep decline in confidence as girls reach adolescence, Author Orenstein set out to explore the obstacles girls face -- in school, in the home, and in our culture.
14. Fast Food Nation:  $14.00
    The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
15. Fatland:  $13.00
    How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
16. The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander: $14.00
    From Preschool to High School How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle of Violence
17. Nobody Knew What To Do: A Story About Bullying $14.00
18. Your Child: Bully or Victim?: Understanding and Ending Schoolyard Tyranny $13.00
    This book offers hands-on help for parents to stop bullying before it becomes serious, whether your child is the victim or the bully
19. Adolescent Drug & Alcohol Abuse: How to Spot is, Stop It, & Get Help for Your Family $18.00
    Offers parents, professionals, and family members information on how to spot the signs of abuse in a teenager and overcome family confusion, denial, and excuses, in order to get adolescents the help they need.
20. Buzzed: The Straight Facts about the Most Used and Abused Drugs $17.00
    from Alcohol to Ecstasy Updated and revised, here is the second edition of the essential, most accessible source for understanding how drugs work and their effects on body and behavior----from alcohol to Ecstasy.
21. Choices and Consequences: What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs $15.00
    Written for parents, teachers, family doctors, mental health professional, school guidance counselors, and anyone else who cares about teenagers, it describes a step
    -by-step process called intervention that you can use to stop a teenager’s harmful involvement with chemicals.
22. Dirty: A Search for Answers Inside America’s Teenage Drug Epidemic $15.00
    Venturing into uncharted territory, mother and award-winning journalist Meredith Maran takes us inside teenagers’ hearts, minds, and central nervous systems to explore the causes and consequences of our nation’s drug crisis.
23. Helping Your Chemically Dependent Teenager Recover: A Guide for Parents $13.00
    and Other Concerned Adults This book is written for the parent whose child has serious problems with alcohol or other drugs. It recognizes that both teenager and parent need to recover from the disease of chemical dependence.
24. Teens Under The Influence: The Truth About Kids, Alcohol, and Other Drugs $15.00
    How to Recognize the Problem and What to Do About It
    The first and only book to focus entirely on adolescent alcohol and other drug use and it addresses the immediate dangers that threaten these kids – exploring the short- and long-term effects of their addictions and giving parents solid, sensitive, and practical advice to combat this growing epidemic.
25. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood $22.00
    At 24 (her present age), Zailckas gave up drinking after a decade of getting drunk, having blackouts and experiencing brushes with comas, date rape and suicide. She weaves disturbing statistics into her memoir: most girls will have their first drink by age 12, & will have the experience of being drunk by 14; teenage girls drink as much as their male peers, but their bodies process it badly (they get drunk faster, stay drunk longer & are more likely to die of alcohol poisoning); and date rape & booze go hand-in-hand.