Reading List
Mount Bachelor Academy Recommended reading list for parents
The following are books that Mount Bachelor Academy staff members have found to be helpful reading:
Get Out of My Life But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall
by Wolf Anthony
(helpful techniques for parents of challenging teens)
Sibling Society
by Robert Bly
(society/parenting)
Teenagers with ADD, A Parents Guide
by Chris Zeigler Dendy, M.S.
(Attention Deficit Disorder)
Spoiling Childhood
by Diane Ehrenstedt
(parenting)
Childhood and Society
by Erik Erikson
(psychological basis)
The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
In a Different Voice
by Carol Gilligan
The Wonder of Boys/ A Fine Young Man
by Michael Gurian
(how boys learn differently from girls)
Driven to Distraction
by Hallowell, M.D. & Ratey, M.D.
(Attention Deficit Disorder)
Weve Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy...(and the world is getting worse)
by James Hillman
(culture/therapy)
Love is Letting Go of Fear
by Gerald Jambolsky
(personal growth)
Different Drum
by M. Scott Peck
(community building)
A World Waiting To Be Born
by M. Scott Peck
(community building/workplace)
The Shelter of Each Other
by Mary Pipher
(parenting/culture/community)
Reviving Ophelia
by Mary Pipher
(parenting adolescent girls)
Hunger Pains
by Mary Pipher
(food disorders)
The Romance of Risk
by Lynn Ponton
(helpful techniques for parents of challenging teens)
Disappearance of Childhood
by Neil Postman
(culture/parenting)
Amusing Ourselves to Death
by Neil Postman
(culture/parenting)
Uncommon Sense for Parents of Teenagers
by Michael Riera
(helpful techniques for parents of challenging teens)
Primal Wound
by Nancy Newton Verrier
(adoption)
Imperfect Control
by Judith Viorst
(control versus surrender)
Necessary Losses
by Judith Viorst
(how losses shape our lives)