Children’s books:
Feelings
The Feelings Box – Dr. Randy Gold
Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day – Jamie Lee Curtis
The Way I Feel - Janan Cain
Bear Feels Scared - Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman
Self -Esteem
How Full is Your Bucket – Tom Rath
I’m Gonna Like Me- Jamie Lee Curtis
A Smart Girl’s Guide to Liking Herself - American Girl Series
Attachment
The Kissing Hand – Audrey Penn
Grief/Trauma
A Terrible Thing Happened – Margaret M. Holmes
Tear Soup - Schwiebert, Deklyen & Bills
When Someone You Love Dies
Friendship/Peer Relations
Llama Llama and the Bully Goat- Anna Dewdney
The Monster Who Lost His Mean – Tiffany Strelitz and Kirstie Edmunds
The Wishing Stone - Steve Smallman and Rebecca Elliott
A Smart Girl’s Guide to Friendship Troubles - American Girl Series
Simon’s Hook
Anger
Cool Down and Work Through Anger - Cheri J Meiners
Transitions
A Smart Girl’s Guide to Starting Middle School - American Girl Series
Divorce
My Life Turned Upside Down, But I Turned it Rightside Up-Mary Blitzer Field & Hennie Shore
Parent Books:
How Full is Your Bucket? – Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton, PH.D.
The Parents We Mean to Be – Richard Weissbourd
How to Talk so Kids will Listen and Listen so Kids will Talk - Faber & Mazlish
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life - Rosenberg
Duct-Tape Parenting: A Less is More Approach to Raising Respectful, Responsible, and Resilient Kids - Vicki Hoefle
On Learning
Boys and Girls Learn Differently - Michael Gurian
Specifically for Dads
Covering Home: Lessons on the Art of Fathering from the Game of Baseball - Petrash
For Parents of Boys
The Wonder of Boys - Michael Gurian
Masterminds and Wingmen - Rosalind Wiseman
For Parents of Girls
The Wonder of Girls - Michael Gurian
Queen Bees and Wannabees - Rosalind Wiseman
Friendships:
Bad Apple by Edward Hemingway (one of my favorites!)
Each Kindness by Jaqueline Woodson
Caring for yourself and others:
Dear Children Of The Earth by Schim Schimmel
Problem solving/ Getting along
The Recess Queen by Alexis O'Neill
Feelings
Wilma Jean the Worry Machine by Julia Cook
Today I Feel Silly by Jamie Lee Curtis
Self control
My Mouth is a Volcano by Julia Cook
Storyline online - many read alouds