Parenting Resource Book Library

Need new ideas for family fun? Wondering what to feed your toddler? Want more open communication with your children?

Find a book in our Resource Library to help you find answers to most any parenting question!

Heights Parent Center in-house lending library is a free resource available to HPC participants. Books, audio and video tapes can be borrowed for two weeks at a time.

Heights Parent Center has books on a variety of topics -- please click here to view a complete listing of all of our holdings
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Sampling of Books for your Consideration:

Parenting Books

The American Academy of Pediatrics, eds. Shelov and Hanneman,
Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5. Rev. ed. Bantam, 1993.

Boston Children’s Hospital.
The New Child Health Encyclopedia: The Complete Guide for Parents.
Delacorte Press/Lawrence, 1987.

Brazelton, T. Berry.
Touchpoints: The Essential Reference.
Perseus Books, 1992.

Eisenberg et al.,
What to Expect the First Year.
Workman Publishing Co., 1989

Eisenberg et al.,
What to Expect the Toddler Years.
Workman Publishing Co.,

Iovine, Vicki.
The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood: Wise and Witty Advice on Everything from Coping With Postpartum Mood Swings to Salvaging Your Sex Life to Fitting into That Favorite Pair of Jeans.
Perigee Publishing, 1997

Spock, Benjamin, and Michael B. Rothenberg. Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care.
Pocket Books, 1985.

Winnicott, D.W. The Child, the Family, and the Outside World. Introduction by Marshall H. Klaus. Addison-Wesley/Lawrence, 1987.

Death and Divorce

Grollman, Earl.
Explaining Death to Children. Beacon Press, 1964.

Treyber, Edward.
Helping your Child with Divorce.
Pocket Books, 1985.

Viorst, Judith.
Necessary Losses.
Simon & Schuster, 1986.

Potty Training

Brooks, Joae Graham, and members of the staff of the Boston Children’s Hospital.
No More Diapers!
Rev. ed. Delta/Lawrence, 1991.

Siblings

Dunn, Judy, and Robert Plonim.
Separate Lives: Why Siblings are so Different.
Basic Books, 1990.

Sleep

Ferber, Richard.
Solve your Child’s Sleep Problem.
Simon & Schuster, 1986.

Special Needs

Featherstone, Helen. A Difference in the Family: Life with a Disabled Child.
Basic Books, 1990.

Twins

Alexander, Terry Pink. Make Room for Twins. New York: Bantam Books, 1987

Books, audio and video tapes can be borrowed for two weeks at a time.