Recommended books:

SMART PARENTING FOR SMART KIDS: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential by Eileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD and Mark S. Lowenthal, PsyD

 KIDS ARE WORTH IT!  Giving your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline by Barbara Coloroso.

UNCONDITIONAL PARENTING: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn

 EASY TO LOVE, DIFFICULT TO DISCIPLINE by Becky A. Bailey

AWAKENING CHILDREN'S MINDS: How Parents and Teachers Can Make a Difference by Laura E. Berk.

THE DISCIPLINE BOOK, How to Have a Better-Behaved Child from Birth to Age Ten, by William Sears, M.D., and Martha Sears, R.N.

PROTECTING THE GIFT, Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane), by Gavin DeBecker

BETWEEN PARENT AND CHILD, by Dr. Haim G. Ginott; revised and updated by Dr. Alice Ginott & Dr. H. Wallace Goddard

TENDING THE FLAME:  The Art of Unitarian Universalist Parenting by Michelle Richards 

THE FOUR AGREEMENTS, by Don Miguel Ruiz

A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING, by Bill Bryson

I CAN DO IT:  How to Use Affirmations to Change Your Life, by Louise L. Hay (includes an Affirmation CD)

YOUR HEART'S DESIRE, Instructions for Creating the Life You Really Want, by Sonia Choquette

ROW, ROW, ROW YOUR BOAT:  A Guide for Living Life in the Divine Flow, by Steven Lane Taylor

LOVING WHAT IS:  Four Questions that Can Change Your Life, by Byron Katie