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Resources &
Referrals 

Books

  • The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents, Lisa Damour, PhD

  • Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood, Lisa Damour, PhD​

  • Masterminds and Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rule of Boy World, Rosalind Wiseman

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

  • The New Psychology of Success, Carol Dweck

  • Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker 

  • All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood, Jennifer Senior

  • The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids, Madeline Levine

  • I’d Listen To My Parents If They’d Just Shut Up: What To Say And Not Say When Parenting Teens, Anthony Wolf

  • Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous and Independent Children, Lynn Lyons and Reid Wilson

  • The Blessing of a B Minus, Wendy Mogel

  • Where You Go is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania, Frank Bruni

  • Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids, Denise Pope, Maureen Brown, and Sarah Becket Miles

  • Changing the Game: The Parent’s Guide to Raising Happy, High Performing Athletes and Giving Youth Sports Back to the Kids, John O’sullivan

Seattle-Area Referrals

Instagram Accounts

  • @lisa.damour

  • @parentingteensandtweens

  • @harlancohen (for parents & teens starting college)

  • @parenting_my_teen

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