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RECOMMENDED READINGS

The Approximate Parent: Discovering the Strategies That Work with Your Teenager, Michael Y. Simon, LMFT

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A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents–and Ourselves, Jane Gross

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Coping With Your Difficult Older Parent : A Guide for Stressed-Out Children, Grace Lebow and Barbara Kane

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How to Care for Aging Parents, Virginia Morris

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How to Recognize and Treat Depression in the Older Adult, Peter Opperman, Ph.D.

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Positive Discipline, Jane Nelsen (see also Jane’s individual books on Positive Discipline for Teenagers, Positive Discipline A-Z, Positive Discipline for Preschoolers, etc.

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The Romance Of Risk: Why Teenagers Do The Things They Do, Lynn Ponton, M.D.

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Talk to Me First: Everything You Need to Know to Become Your Kids’ “Go-To” Person about Sex, Deborah Roffman

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Your Four-Year-Old, Louise Bates Ames. See the entire series of Louise Ames’ books, e.g., Your One-Year-Old…all the way up to Your Ten to Fourteen-Year-Old.

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