The WDS School Council is proud to present the Parent Library! Filled with books aimed at parents to help their child navigate the stress of school and everyday life, these books are available to check out through the school. Please contact the office at (403)777-6110 and speak to an administrator to check out a specific book – it will be sent home with your child and listed on their library card.
 | Taking Charge of Adhd, Fourth Edition: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents | The leading parent resource about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its treatment has now been revised and updated with the latest information and resources. |
 | How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk | This bestselling classic by internationally acclaimed experts on communication between parents and children includes fresh insights and suggestions, as well as the author’s time-tested methods to solve common problems and build foundations for lasting relationships |
 | Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility | Designed for preschool and beyond, this helpful and practical psychology-based parenting method is an invaluable guide for all parents! Teach your children healthy responsibility and encourage their character growth from a young age. Learn to establish healthy boundaries with your children through easy-to-implement steps without anger, threats, nagging, or power struggles. |
 | Your Defiant Child, Second Edition: Eight Steps to Better Behavior | Discover a way to end constant power struggles with your defiant, oppositional, “impossible” 5- to 12-year-old, with the help of leading child psychologist Russell A. Barkley. Dr. Barkley’s approach is research based, practical, and doable–and leads to lasting behavior change. Vivid, realistic stories illustrate what the techniques look like in action. |
 | A Mind at a Time | “Different minds learn differently,” writes Dr. Mel Levine, one of the best-known education experts and pediatricians in America today. And that’s a problem for many children, because most schools still cling to a one-size-fits-all education philosophy. As a result, these children struggle because their learning patterns don’t fit the schools they are in. |
 | The Optimistic Child | In the face of increasing levels of depression affecting American children, the author of the best-selling Learned Optimism teaches parents and educators how to instill optimism, resilience, and confidence in their youngsters. |
 | The Leader in Me: How Schools Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time | In today’s world, we are inundated with information about who to be, what to do, and how to live. But what if there was a way to learn not just what to think about, but how to think? A program that taught young people how to manage priorities, focus on goals, and be a positive influence in their schools? |
 | What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing | Have you ever wondered “Why did I do that?” or “Why can’t I just control my behavior?” Others may judge our reactions and think, “What’s wrong with that person?” When questioning our emotions, it’s easy to place the blame on ourselves; holding ourselves and those around us to an impossible standard. It’s time we started asking a different question. Through deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry offer a groundbreaking and profound shift from asking “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?” |
 | Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids | With this book, you’ll find powerful mindfulness skills for calming your own stress response when difficult emotions arise. You’ll also discover strategies for cultivating respectful communication, effective conflict resolution, and reflective listening. In the process, you’ll learn to examine your own unhelpful patterns and ingrained reactions that reflect the generational habits shaped by your parents, so you can break the cycle and respond to your children in more skillful ways. |
 | Freeing Your Child from Anxiety, Revised and Updated Edition: Practical Strategies to Overcome Fears, Worries, and Phobias and Be Prepared for Life–from Toddlers to Teens | Freeing Your Child from Anxiety contains easy, fun, and effective tools for teaching children to outsmart their worries and take charge of their fears. This revised and updated edition also teaches how to prepare children to withstand the pressure in our competitive test-driven culture. |
 | Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary “Executive Skills” Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential | Learn easy-to-follow steps to identify your child’s strengths and weaknesses, use activities and techniques proven to boost specific skills, and problem-solve daily routines. Helpful worksheets and forms can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2″ x 11″ size. Small changes can add up to big improvements–this empowering book shows how. |
 | Positive Discipline for Today’s Busy (and Overwhelmed) Parent: How to Balance Work, Parenting, and Self for Lasting Well-Being | Armed with communication strategies and tips for self-reflection, moms (and dads!) won’t have to feel guilty about leaving their child with a sitter during the day, or leaving work early to go to a soccer game. |
 | Parenting Without Power Struggles: Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids While Staying Cool, Calm, and Connected | While most parenting programs are designed to coerce kids to change, Parenting Without Power Struggles does something innovative, showing you how to come alongside your children to awaken their natural instincts to cooperate, rather than at them with threats or bribes, which inevitably fuels their resistance. |
 | Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Matter | Hold On to Your Kids will restore parenting to its natural intuitive basis and the parent-child relationship to its rightful preeminence. The concepts, principles and practical advice contained in Hold On to Your Kids will empower parents to satisfy their children’s inborn need to find direction by turning towards a source of authority, contact and warmth. |
 | Positive Discipline: The Classic Guide to Helping Children Develop Self-Discipline, Responsibility, Cooperation, and Problem-Solving Skills | Millions of children have already benefited from the counsel in this wise and warmhearted book, which features dozens of true stories of positive discipline in action. Give your child the tools he or she needs for a well-adjusted life with this proven treasure trove of practical advice. |
 | The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them | With chapters addressing the needs of specific age groups, from newborns through teens, The Highly Sensitive Child delivers warmhearted, timely information for parents, teachers, and the sensitive children in their lives. |
 | Managing Emotional Mayhem The Five Steps for Self-Regulation | Managing Emotional Mayhem lays a conceptual foundation, explores limiting beliefs, presents new adult skills and teaches us how to coach children in this transformative self-regulation process. |