on college admissions

  • Colleges That Change Lives: 40 schools that will change the way you think about colleges, Loren Pope

  • The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of A Premier College, Jacques Steinberg

  • College Rules!, Sherrie Nist-Olejnik, Ph.D. & Jodi Patrick Holschuh, Ph.D.

  • Getting In! The Zinch Guide to College Admissions and Financial Aid in the Digital Age, Steve Cohen, Anne Dwane, Paulo de Oliveira, & Michael Muska

Helping Teenagers & Parents Deal with the Pressures and Stress of the High School Years

  • How To Be a High School Superstar by Cal Newport

  • College Admissions Together: It Takes a Family by Steven Roy Goodman & Andrea Leiman

  • Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be by Frank Bruni

  • You Are Not Special: …..And Other Encouragements by David McCullough

  • Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain by Daniel Siegel

  • Your Defiant Child: Eight Steps to Better Behavior  by Russell Barkley

  • Parenting with Love and Logic by F. & J. Fay Cline

  • Parenting Teens with Love and Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood by F. & J. Fay Cline

  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families  by S. Covey

  • Parenting Teenagers: Systematic Training for Effective Parenting by D. Dinkmeyer & G. McKay

  • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweek

  • How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by A. Faber & E. Mazlish

  • Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots & Wings by M. Kenneth & R. Ginsburt

  • Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World: Seven Building Blocks for Developing Capable Young People, by S. Glenn & J. Nelson

  • Boys and Girls Learn Differently: A Guide for Teachers and Parents by Michael Gurian

  • The Wonder of Girls by Michael Gurian

  • The Wonder of Boys  by Michael Gurian

  • Second Shelter: Family Strategies for Navigating Therapeutic Boarding Schools and Residential Treatment Centers by R. Haid & E. Donnelly

  • Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children by Daniel Hughes

  • The Parent Playbook by Russell Hyken

  • Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow by G. Keck & R. Kupecky

  • Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishment to Love and Reason  by Alfie Kohn

  • The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage are Creating a Generagion of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids by Madeline Levine

  • How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success by Julie Lythcott-Haims

  • Teens in Turmoil: A Path to Change for Parents, Adolescents and their Families  by C. Maxym & L. York

  • An Unchanged Mind: The Problem with Immaturity in Adolescence by John McKinnon

  • To Change a Mind: Parenting to Promote Maturity in Teenagers by John McKinnon

  • When Parents Love Too Much: Freeing Parents & Children to Live their Own Lives by M. Meyerson & L. Ashner

  • The Blessings of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children by Wendy Mogel

  • Blessing of a B Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers by Wendy Mogel

  • Positive Discipline for Teenagers: Empowering Teens and Yourself through Kind and Firm Parenting by J. Nelson & L. Lott

  • Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by K. Patterson

  • Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from Myths of Boyhood by William Pollack

  • College that Change Lives: 40 Schools that Will Change the Way You Think About College by Laren Pope

  • Power and Compassion: Working with Difficult Adolescents and Abused Parents by Jerome Price

  • The Journey of the Heroic Parent: Your Child’s Struggle and the Road Home by Brad Reedy

  • The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids by Alexandra Robbins

  • Raising NLD Superstars: What Families with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities Need to Know About Nurturing Confident, Competent Kids by Marcia Rubinstein

  • Boys Themselves by Michael Ruhlman

  • The Good Enough Child: How to Have an Imperfect Family and Be Perfectly Satisfied by Brad Sachs

  • The Good Enough Teen: Rising Adolescents with Love and Acceptance (Despite How Impossible They can Be) by Brad Sachs

  • Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences by Leonard Sax

  • Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men by Leonard Sax

  • Girls on the Edge by Leonard Sax

  • Parenting Your Out of Control Teenager: 7 Steps to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love by Scott Sells

  • Parenting from the Inside Out: 10th Anniversary edition: How a Self-Understanding Can Help you Raise Children by D.J. Siegel & M. Hartzell

  • Not By Chance Tim Thayne

  • How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough

  • The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children’s Moral and Emotional Development by Richard Weissbourd

  • Parenting Your ADD Child: A No-Nonsense Guide for Nurturing Self-Reliance and Cooperation by Craig Weiner

The Transition from High School to College

  • For Students:

    • The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College by Harlan Cohen

    • Making the Most Out of College by Richard Light

    •  For Parents:

      • Letting Go by Karen Coburn

      • When Your Kids Go To College – A Parent’s Survival Guide by Carol Barkin

      • Almost Grown – Launching Your Child From High School To College by Patricia Pasick

      • Emptying the Nest: Launching Your Young Adult Toward Success and Self-Reliance by Brad Sachs

      • The Naked Roommate: For Parents Only: A Parent’s Guide to the New College Experience by Harlan Cohen

Books for families to read