Trinity Staff are excellent resources in matters of parenting, behavior, social-emotional issues, kindergarten readiness and many other topics; we’ve all been there! Don’t hesitate to ask for an explanation, insight or guidance when co-oping, or feel free to request a private meeting at any time.
We maintain a Parent Library in the school office. Books may be checked out at your convenience. A listing of available books is provided in the table below. Articles links are included for a quick read. Not sure what to look for? Your teachers are happy to guide you with a list of some suggestions of their favorite books and articles.
Articles
- Birth to One Year
- One to Two Years
- Two to Three Years
- Three to Four Years
- Four to Five Years
- Early Detection of Disorders
- Fine Motor Milestones
- Gross Motor Milestones
- Help Don’t Rescue
- How Do Children Develop?
- Impact of Screen Time on Young Children
- Play in the Early Years
- Preschool Developmental Milestones
- Speech or Language Delay?
Books
Babies / Toddlers
A Child Is Born: The Completely New Edition
Lennart Nillson
A Child Is Born
Lennart Nilsson
Caring For Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5, The Complete and Authoritative Guide
Steven P. Shelov, M.D., F.A.A.P.
Caring For Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5, Revised Edition
Steven P. Shelov, M.D., F.A.A.P.
Happy Birth Day!
Robie H. Harris
What To Expect: The First Year
Henry Harris M.D., F.A.A.P. Albert Einstein Medical Center, New York City
What to Expect: The Toddler Years
Arlene Eisenbery, Heidi E. Murkoff, and Sandee E. Hathaway, B.S.N.
Your Baby & Child: From Birthday to Age Five (New Edition, Revised and Expanded)
Penelope Leach
Understanding Your Child
A Practical guide to Solving Preschool Behavior Problems: Second Edition
Eva Essa
The Art of Talking with Your Teenager
Paul W. Swets
Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
Leonard Sax, M.D., PH.D.
The Challenging Child: Understanding, Raising, and Enjoying the Five “Difficult” Types of Children
Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.
The Explosive Child
Ross W. Greene, PH.D.
Girls on The Edge: The four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls
Leonard Sax, M.D., PH.D.
The Happiest Toddler on the Block
Harvey Karp, M.D.
How To Talk So Kids Can Learn: At Home and In School
Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon
David Elkind
The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon, The Revised Edition
David Elkind
If Your Child Is Hyperactive, Inattentive, Impulsive, Distractible…
Stephen W. Garber, PH.D., Marianne Daniels Garber, PH.D., and Robyn Freedman Spizman
In Their Own Way: Discovering and Encouraging Your Child’s Multiple Intelligences
Thomas Armstrong, PH.D.
Late-Talking Children
Thomas Sowell
Liberated Parents, Liberated Children: Your Guide to a Happier Family
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Little Girls Can Be Mean: Four Steps to Bully-Proof Girls in the Early Grades
Michelle Anthony, M.A., PH.D, and Reyna Lindert, PH.D.
Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs
Ellen Gallinsky
Monsters Under the Bed, And Other Childhood Fears
Stephen W. Garber, PH.D., Marianne Daniels Garber, PH.D., and Robyn Freedman Spizman
The Mother of All Toddler Books: Your Ultimate Guide to Your Baby’s Second and Third Years
Ann Douglas
The Out-Of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder
Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A.
Preschool Wise: Optimizing Educational Outcomes, What Preschoolers Need to Learn
Gary Ezzo M.A. and Robert Bucknam, M.D.
Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents
Christine Carter, PH.D.
Ready For Kindergarten
Sharon Wilkins
Real Boys
William Pollack, PH.D.
Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success
Madeline Levine, PH.D.
Toddlers and Parents: A Declaration of Independence
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.
What’s Going On In There: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
Lise Eliot, PH.D.
Whole Child/Whole Parent
Polly Berrien Berends
The Wonder of Boys
Michael Gurian
Your Child’s Growing Mind
Jane M. Healy, PH.D.
Your Child’s Growing Mind: Completely Revised and Updated
Jane M. Healy, PH.D.
Your One Year Old: Fun-Loving and Fussy
Louise Bates Ames, PH.D., Frances L. Ilg, M.D., and Carol Harber, M.A.
Your Two Year Old: Terrible or Tender
Louise Bates Ames, PH.D., Frances L. Ilg, M.D.
Your Three Year Old: Friend or Enemy
Louise Bates Ames, PH.D and Frances L. Ilg, M.D.
Your Four Year Old: Wild and Wonderful
Louise Bates Ames, PH.D., Frances L. Ilg, M.D.
Your Five Year Old: Sunny and Serene
Louise Bates Ames, PH.D., Frances L. Ilg, M.D.
Your Six Year Old: Loving and Defiant
Louise Bates Ames, PH.D., Frances L. Ilg, M.D.
Your Eight Year Old: Lively and Outgoing
Louise Bates Ames, PH.D., and Carol Chase Haber, M.A.
Your Child At Play: Two and Three Years
Marilyn Segal, PH.D
Articles
- The Value of a Mess
- A Guide to Reading with Your Child
- Distinctions Between Academic and Intellectual Goals for Young Children
- How Children Learn
- Make Reading a Daily Routine
- Perseverance Key to Children’s Intellectual Growth
- Reading at Age Five Why?
- Reading With Your Preschooler
- Teaching Cooperation
- Teaching Independence
- The Disturbing Transformation of Kindergarten
- What I Can’t Do
- What Should Children Learn from Preschool?
Articles
- A Nation of Wimps
- 3 Rs of Self Esteem
- 5 Reasons to Stop Saying Good Job
- Dealing With Fears
- Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges
- Encouragement
- Learning That We’re Not So Special
- Losing is Good for You
- Perseverance Key to Children’s Intellectual Growth
- Raising Emotionally Strong Children
- Teaching Your Child About Emotions
- Teaching Your Child About Feelings
- The Value of a Mess
- Why You Shouldn’t Make Your Kid Say They’re Sorry
Articles
- Coming Soon!
Books
How To Get Your Kid To Eat, But Not Too Much
Ellyn Satter
I Like to Eat Treats
B. Annye Rothenberg, PH.D
Play With Your Food
Joost Elffers
Pretend Soup and Other Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up
Mollie Katzen and Ann Henderson
The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect with Your Kids, One Meal at a Time
Laurie David
Articles
- The Value of a Mess
- 3 Rs of Self Esteem
- 5 Reasons to Stop Saying Good Job
- 13 Ways to Conquer Preschool Power Struggles
- 20 Alternatives to Punishment
- Bedtime
- Big Body Play
- Chores: A Wake Up Call to Real Life
- Dealing with Fears
- Getting Kids to do Chores
- How Not to Talk to Your Kids
- How to Talk so Kids Will Listen
- I Really Mean It!
- Is My Child Shy?
- Overcoming Fear of the Ordinary
- Raise a Trailblazer
- Raising Socially and Emotionally Strong Children
- Reading Your Child’s Cues: Birth to Age 2
- Routines and Responsibilities
- Teaching Cooperation
- Teaching Him to Say “I’m Sorry” Isn’t the Answer
- Teaching Your Child About Feelings
- The 4th “R”: Parent Responsibility
- What Research Tells Us About Screen Time
- 7 Steps to Get Kids to Listen
Books
The Best Things Parents Do
Susan Isaacs Kohl
Buddah Never Raised Kids & Jesus Didn’t Drive Carpool
Vickie Falcone
Building Resilience In Children and Teens: 2nd Edition
Kenneth R. Ginsburg
Do I Have To? What if I Don’t Want to…
Jamie Anderson, Christina Cheung, Beth O’Connor
Fathering: Strengthening Connection With Your Children No Matter Where You Are
Will Glennon
FistStickKnifeGun: A Personal History of Violence In America
Geoffrey Canada
I Don’t Want To Go To The Toilet
B. Annye Rothenberg, PH.D
It’s OK Not To Share…: and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids
Heather Shumaker
Living With the Active Alert Child: Groundbreaking Strategies for Parents
Linda S. Budd, PH.D
The New High tech Threat to Children
Pamela Tuchscherer
Parenting for Peace and Justice: Ten Years Later
Kathleen and James McGinnis
Pick Up Your Socks…and Other Skills Growing Children Need!
Elizabeth Crary
Raising Boys
Steve Biddulph
Raising Respectful Children in a Disrespectful World
Jill Rigby
Raising Your Spirited Child
Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child
Robert J. MacKenzie, Ed.D.
The Smart Parent’s Guide to Kids’ TV
Milton Chen, PH.D
The Three-Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Happy Parenting
Christine Mellor
Discipline
1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12
Thomas W. Phelan, PH.D
Have A New Kid by Friday
Dr. Kevin Leman
Kid Cooperation: How to Stop Yelling, Nagging & Pleading and Get Kids to Cooperate
Elizabeth Pantley
Mommy and Daddy Are Always Supposed to Say Yes…Aren’ They?
B. Annye Rothenberg, PH.D
Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes
Alfie Kohn
“The Answer is No”: Saying it and sticking to it
Cynthia Whitman, MSW
The Pocket Parent
Gail Reichlin & Caroline Winkler
Divorce / Death
Always Gramma
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
A Place In My Heart
Anette Aubrey
Christmas Moon
Denys Cazet
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley
Grandma’s Shoes
Linny Hathorn
Grandpa
John Burningham
It Must Hurt a Lot: A Child’s Book About Death
Sanford Evans
Just Like a Baby
Rebecca Bond
Mama and Daddy Bear’s Divorce
Cornelia Maude Spelman
Mom’s House, Dad’s House: Making Two Homes for Your Child
Isolina Ricci, PH.D
Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs
Tomie de Paola
Now One Foot, Now The Other
Tomie de Paola
On Death and Dying: What the dying have to teach doctors, nurses, clergy, and their own families
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D.
Sophie
Mem Fox
Step-Wives: 10 Steps to help ex-wives and stepmothers end the struggle and put the kids first
Lynne Oxhorn-Ringwood and Louise Oxhorn
What to Do When Mom and Dad Divorce
Trevor Ryan
When Someone Has A Very Serious Illness: Children Can Learn to Cope with Loss and Change
Marqe Heegaard
Family Life
Back to the Family: How to Encourage Traditional Values in Complicated Times
Dr. Ray Guarendi
The Bare Naked Book
Kathy Stinson
Confessions of a Happily Organized Family
Deniece Schofield
The Forgiving Marriage
Dr. Paul Coleman
Goodbye House
Frank Asch
I Want to Make Friends
B. Annye Rothenberg, PH.D
Loving Each Other: The Challenge of Human Relationships
Leo Buscaglia
Moving
Fred Rogers
The Other Parent: The Inside Story of the Media’s Effect in Our Children
James P. Steyer
Simplify Your Life with Kids
Elaine St. James
Touching
Coalition For Child Advocacy
When I Relax I Feel Guilty
Tim Hansel
Siblings
Siblings Without Rivalry
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Sleep
Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems
Richard Ferber, M.D.
The No-Cry Sleep Solution: For Toddlers and Preschoolers
Elizabeth Pantley
Books
Games to Play with Two Year Olds
Jackie Silberg
Godly Play: An Imaginative Approach to Religious Education
Jerome W. Berryman
Great Books for Girls
Kathleen Odean
Make Way for Literacy!: teaching the Way Young Children Learn
Gretchen Owocki
Play: The Foundation that Supports the House of Higher Learning
Lisa Murphy
Read to Me: Raising kids who love to read
Bernice E. Cullinan
Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children will Change Their Lives Forever
Mem Fox
Simple Fun for Busy People: 333 Free Ways to Enjoy Your Loved Ones More in the Time You Have
Gary Krahne PH.D
Trouble-Free Travel with Children: Helpful Hints for Parents of the Go
Vicki Lansky
What To Do After You Turn Off The TV
Frances Moore Lappe and Family
Young Children and Picture Books: Second Edition
Mary Renck Jalongo
Articles
- Building Play Skills for Healthy Children & Families
- Decline in Play in Preschoolers – and the Rise in Sensory Issues
- Fine Motor Milestones
- Gross Motor Milestones
- How Do Children Develop?
- Learning Through Play
- Physical Milestones Ages 3-4
- Physical Milestones Ages 4-5
- Physical Development in Preschool Children
- Physical Development Overview
- Successful Scissoring
- Understanding Physical Development in Preschoolers
Articles
- Active Learning
- Big Body Play
- Building Play Skills for Healthy Children & Families
- Child’s Play is Serious
- Decline in Play … and the Rise in Sensory Issues
- Friendship Skills Tune Up
- Learning Through Play
- Make the Most of Playtime
- Play: It’s the Way Children Learn
- The Best Learning Is Active Learning
- The Importance of Play
- The Importance of Sensory Play
- The Serious Need for Play
- Want to Get Your Kids in to College?
- Why Play is So Important
Books
Games to Play with Two Year Olds
Jackie Silberg
Godly Play: An Imaginative Approach to Religious Education
Jerome W. Berryman
Great Books for Girls
Kathleen Odean
Make Way for Literacy!: teaching the Way Young Children Learn
Gretchen Owocki
Play: The Foundation that Supports the House of Higher Learning
Lisa Murphy
Read to Me: Raising kids who love to read
Bernice E. Cullinan
Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children will Change Their Lives Forever
Mem Fox
Simple Fun for Busy People: 333 Free Ways to Enjoy Your Loved Ones More in the Time You Have
Gary Krahne PH.D
Trouble-Free Travel with Children: Helpful Hints for Parents of the Go
Vicki Lansky
What To Do After You Turn Off The TV
Frances Moore Lappe and Family
Young Children and Picture Books: Second Edition
Mary Renck Jalongo
Articles
- Decline in Play in Preschoolers – and the Rise in Sensory Issues
- Friendship Skills Tune Up
- Helping Your Child Forge Friendships
- Losing is Good for You
- Pro Social Skills at 5 Can Predict Adult Success
- Raising Socially and Emotionally Strong Children
- Throw Away Your Timer: Why Kids Learn More When They Don’t Share
- Why You Shouldn’t Make Your Kid Say They’re Sorry
Articles
- Coming Soon!
Books
Gently Lead: How To Teach Your Children About God While Finding Out About Yourself
Polly Berrien Berends
The Kidpower Book for Caring Adults
Irene Van der Zande
Prayer After Nine Rainy Days and Other Family Prayers
Pat Corrick Hinton
10 Principles for Spiritual Parenting: Nurturing Your Child’s Soul
Mimi Doe and Marsha Walch, PH.D
Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools
Jonathan Kozol
The Spiritual Life of Children
Robert Coles
40 Ways to Raise a Non-racist Child
Barbara Mathias & Mary Ann French
Who’s Calling the Shots?
Nancy Carlsson-Paige & Diane E. Levin