Parenting Resources

Lending Center for Books

The Parenting Center maintains a lending library of parenting books.

Members may check them out according to the following guidelines:

• Check-out Limits:
  • Two books at a time
• Check-out Procedure:
  • All materials must be checked out and returned at the front desk. Parents are considered responsible for the materials until they are checked in.
• Check-out Duration:
  • Two weeks
• Lost and Overdue Materials:
  • A replacement fee will be charged for all lost or destroyed books

For information on parenting, check out these titles in our Library:

• Loving Each One Best
• Brain Rules for Babies
• The No-Cry Sleep Solution
• Welcome to Your Child's Brain
• The Emotional Life of the Toddler
• Siblings Without Rivalry
• Raising Your Spirited Child
• The Truth About Children and Divorce
• Positive Discipline series
• The Preschool Years
• Is This a Phase?
• Without Spanking or Spoiling
• Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
• Food Fights
• Discipline without Distress
• The Blessing of a Skinned Knee
• From Diapers to Dating: A Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children
• Nurturing Good Children Now
• The Roller Coaster Years
• How to Hug a Porcupine
• Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense
• Loving Each One Best
• Getting It Right with Teens
• Seven Steps to Homework Success
• Mastering Anger and Aggression: The Brazelton Way
• Nursing Mother, Working Mother, Revised Edition
• First Meals

Resources for parents

• Sex Education Book Store/Birds & Bees & Kids
• Common Sense Media
• Zero to Three
• CDC teen resources
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• Parenting Counts (Talaris Institute)
• KidsHealth
• Aha! Parenting
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Parent Information)
• Center for Parent & Teen Communication
• Family Online Safety Institute
• Common Sense Media
• The Screenagers Project