‘Books’ Articles
Growing Money
A Complete Investing Guide For Kids is an exceptional investing guide in that it is written specifically to teach children (and adults!) how to make their money work for them. Covering savings in a bank, bods, stocks, and how to read the financial pages, Growing Money is a superb guide.
Helicopters, Drill Sergeants, and Consultants: Parenting Styles and the Messages They Send
I have two addictions- kids and psychology. It’s pretty easy to figure out why I grew addicted to kids, but with psychology it’s less obvious. I became addicted to psychology because I grew up learning how to use power, and I finally got tired of fighting with everybody.
How Long Does It Hurt? A Guide to Recovering From Incest and Sexual Abuse for Teenagers, Their Friends, and Their Families
This book has helped me to realize that what happened to me was horrific and was really abuse and that it was okay for me to feel the things that I did. I’d recommend this book to any and every survivor out there. Teenager or not. It very well could be a lifesaver.
I Speak for This Child
An insider’s glimpse on this hidden world and learn what it takes to ensure that America’s most vulnerable citizens are treated with care and respect. Courter’s story is both heartbreaking and heartwarming, and is an inspiration for anyone who has ever looked up from a newspaper and wondered, “What can I do to help?”
Kinship Care: Making the Most of a Valuable Resource by Rob Geen, editor
Since the early 1980s, state’ use of kin as foster parents has grown rapidly, yet very little information is available on how and when local child welfare agencies use kin as foster parents, how agencies’ approach to kinship care differs from their approach to traditional foster care, and how local kinship care policies and practices vary across states.
Lifebooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child
Most so called lifebooks focus on scrapbooking concepts. This is the only one I have found that talks about CONTENT. Not only what to write about, but WHY certain information needs to be included. It’s really a “How-to on Lifebooks” AND a “Talking About Adoption” book rolled into one.
Maybe Days: A Book for Children in Foster Care
“This book has been invaluable to children who have been in our care. We read it to/with each new child, who seems refreshed & relieved after hearing it. We often re-read it…& refer to it when tough, unanswerable questions arise…”
Nobody’s Children
This book traces the historical, political, and cultural reasons why battered and neglected children are far more likely to spend years in foster limbo, or be sent back to abusive homes, than to be adopted by loving families.
Parenting From the Inside Out
Child psychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and early childhood expert Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., explore the extent to which our childhood experiences actually do shape the way we parent. Drawing upon stunning new findings in neurobiology and attachment research, they explain how interpersonal relationships directly impact the development of the brain, and offer parents a step-by-step approach to forming a deeper understanding of their own life stories, which will help them raise compassionate and resilient children.
Parenting Someone Else’s Child: The Foster Parents’ ‘How-To’ Manual
Ann Stressman wrote this book after hearing Ruby Payne speak about the hidden rules of economic class, combining that perspective into her two decades of personal experience with foster care agencies and the special children needing care. The result is a “nothing can surprise me” compilation of very helpful and enlightening approaches for hundreds of the parenting situations that arise.
