Dear Fellow Parents and Colleagues:

Upcoming holidays like Christmas, Chanukah and Kwanzaa provide opportunities for helping expectant and current parents to be more effective through giving gifts of a parenting education nature.

Here you will find an array of games, books, CDs, DVDs and videos that you may want to consider giving to your family members, friends and neighbors, and to the families with whom your schools and agencies work.

With warmest holiday regards,


Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.
CICC Founder and Executive Director

These computer games and DVDs provide solid information and proven strategies for staying safe on the Internet.

• Airdogs: A Game to Teach Teens about On-Line Crimes
  
  
• Mirror Image: A Computer Game to Teach Teens How to Be Safe in Online Chat Rooms
  
  
• Missing: An Internet Safety Computer Game for Middle School Children and Adults
  
  
• The Internet and Your Kids DVD
  
  
• Wired for Wisdom: An Internet Safety Program for Parents
  
  

These unique items help parents to teach their children how to spend, save and invest wisely, and how to be charitable.

• It's Only a Dollar Until You Add to IT! - An Allowance Chart
  
  
• Money Mama and Three Little Pigs Children's Book and CD
  
  
• Money Mama Piggy Bank
  
  

These books are especially for Kwanzaa celebrations and are also great to expand everyone's knowledge of the unique heritage of African American families.

• African American Psychology
  
  
• African American Single Mothers: Understanding Their Lives and Families
  
  
• African Culture: Rhythms of Unity
  
  
• African Proverbs
  
  
• Afrocentricity
  
  
• Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males
  
  
• Black Children
  
  
• Black Families
  
  
• Black Parenting: Strategies for Training
  
  
• Black Pearls: Daily Meditations, Affirmations and Inspirations for African Americans
  
  
• Coming of Age: African American Male Rites-of-Passage
  
  
• Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys - Volume 1
  
  
• Countering the Conspriacy to Destroy Black Boys - Volume 2
  
  
• Developing Positive Self-Images and Discipline in Back Children
  
  
• Effective Black Parenting Handbook
  
  
• Family Life and School Achievement: Why Poor Black Children Succeed or Fail
  
  
• Herstory: Black Female Rites of Passage
  
  
• Lessons from History: A Celebration of Blackness -Elementary School Version
  
  
• The Afrocentric Self Inventory and Discovery Workbook for African American Youth
  
  
• Voices of Struggle, Voices of Pride: A Collection of Quotes of Great African Americans
  
  

The CD-ROM and Workbooks of this age-related Learning Series engages young children and their parents in a wide range of enjoyable and interactive activities that teach the skills that underlie all academic progress, such as letter and word recognition skills, phonic skills, science concepts, color and shape recognition, and vocabulary skills.

The CD-ROM part of the series offers a menu of interactive educational games that kids and parents can play together on computers, or which children can play on their own. Each game acknowledges and reinforces progress with a certificate that can be printed out.

To learn more about each learning series and to obtain, click here.

These are the books that parents use when they enroll in parenting skill-building programs. They provide guidance and instruction in how to use effective parenting skill, strategies and ideas.

• 1,2,3,4 Padres! Cuaderno de ejercicios para los padres
  
  
• 1,2,3,4 Parents!
  
  
• ABC's for Parents
  
  
• Active Parenting Now
  
  
• Active Parenting of Teens
  
  
• Active Parenting Today for Jewish Families
  
  
• CICC's Confident Parenting
  
  
• CICC's Effective Black Parenting
  
  
• CICC's Los Ninos Bien Educados in Spanish
  
  
• CICC's Los Ninos Bien Educados in English
  
  
• Crianza con Carino para Padres y Hijos
  
  
• Crianza con Carino para Padres y Ninos
  
  
• Early Childhood Systematic Training for Effective Parenting - Parenting Young Children
  
  
• Kindergarden Survival Handbook - Spanish
  
  
• Kindergarten Survival Handbook English
  
  
• Managing the Defiant Child - Video and Manual
  
  
• Nurturing Program for Prenatal Families
  
  
• Nurturing Skills for Parents
  
  
• Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.)
  
  
• Parents and Adolescents
  
  
• Parents and Their Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers
  
  
• Parents and Their School Age Children
  
  
• Parents On Board! - English
  
  
• Parents on Board! - Spanish
  
  
• Steps to Independence: Teaching Everyday Skills to Children with Special Needs
  
  
• Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) for Parents of Elementary School Children - Spanish
  
  
• Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) for Parents of Elementary School Children - English
  
  
• STEP/Teen - Parenting Teenagers
  
  
• Teenage Parents and Their Families
  
  
• Understanding the Defiant Child - Video and Manual
  
  

Here's an array of materials that provide perspective, guidance and education about numerous parenting challenges and how best to cope.

• America's Youth Health and Safety Passport
  
  
• An Owner's Guide to Parenting Teenagers
  
  
• Beating the Devil Out of Them
  
  
• Caring for Your School-Age Child
  
  
• Changing Destructive Adolescent Behavior
  
  
• CICC Discovery Tool
  
  
• Gateway to Academic Achievement
  
  
• Healing Hearts and Divorce
  
  
• Introduction to the Art of Infant Message
  
  
• It Hurts Me More Than It Hurts You
  
  
• I'm Only Doing It for Your Own Good
  
  
• Living with Children; New Methods for Parents and Teachers
  
  
• MegaSkills: Building Children's Achievement for the Information Age
  
  
• My Way or the Highway
  
  
• Parent Training Today: A Social Necessity
  
  
• Parents and Adolescents Living Together: The Basics
  
  
• Parents and Adolescents Living Together: Family Problem Solving
  
  
• Power of Positive Parenting English
  
  
• Power of Positive Parenting - English/Spanish
  
  
• Power of Positive Parenting - English/Khmer
  
  
• Red, White and Bruises - video
  
  
• Raising a Thinking Child
  
  
• Raising Good Children
  
  
• Shaking, Hitting, Spanking: What To Do Instead - English
  
  
• Shaking, Hitting and Spanking: What To Do Instead - Spanish
  
  
• Spare the Rode and Spoil the Child
  
  
• The Good Kid Book - How to Solve the 16 Most Common Behavioral Problems
  
  
• The Happiest Baby on the Block - Book
  
  
• The Happiest Baby on the Block DVD (English and Spanish)
  
  
• The Happiest Baby on the Block Video (English)
  
  
• The Happiest Baby on the Block Video (Spanish)
  
  
• The Incredible Years: A Trouble Shooting Guide for Parents of Children Aged 3 - 8
  
  
• The Roller-Coaster Years: Raising Your Child Through the Maddening Yet Magical Middle School Years
  
  
• Touchpoints: The Essential Reference
  
  
• Touchpoints: Pregnancy, Birth and the First Weeks of Life
  
  
• Touchpoints: The First Month Through the First Year
  
  
• Touchpoints: One Year Through Toddlerhood
  
  
• Yelling, Threatening, Putting Down: What To Do Instead
  
  

Everyone can help give the gift of effective parenting to all children by signing the Effective Parenting Petition.

Click here to sign and show your support for effective parenting and parenting education.

The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring (CICC) was founded in 1974 by Dr. Kerby T. Alvy and has grown to be one of the nation's largest and most productive nonprofit parenting and parenting education organizations. For more infomration about CICC's many programs, activities, products and services, go to www.ciccparenting.org, or call toll-free (800) 325-2422.

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