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Recommended Reading
The teachers at Lakewood Coop Preschool together with the Parent Educator from Seattle Central Community College have compiled the following reading list. We believe this reading list will be helpful to parents of toddlers and preschool age children.

Recommended Reading
  • Becoming the Parent You Want To Be by Laura Davis and Janis Keyser
  • Positive Discipline for Preschoolers by Jane Nelson, Cheryl Erwin and Roslyn Duffy
  • Raising and Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman
  • Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurchinka
  • How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
  • Getting It Right with Children, Discipline for Life by Madeline Swift
  • Your Two Year Old, Your Three Year Old, Your Four Year Old, ... The Ames and Ilg series
  • Pick Up Your Socks...and Other Skills Growing Children Need! by Elizabeth Crary and Pati Casebolt
  • Real Boys by William Pollack
  • Siblings Without Rivalry by A. Faber and E. Mazlish
  • The Wonder of Girls by Michael Gurian
  • The Blessings of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel
  • Playful Parenting by Lawrence J. Cohen
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