Recommended Reading for Parents

Together!  The parent, Guide, and BGMS administration can give you the support that a child needs to develop his or her full potential.  Parents at the Barbara Gordon School are not customers,    not  clients,  but full-fledged  partners, without whom the school's work would not be possible.

(Many of these books are available in the school library)

MARIA MONTESSORI
The Secret of Childhood
The Absorbent Mind
The Montessori Method
Spontaneous Activity in Education
What You Should Know About your Child

TREVOR EISSLER
Montessori Madnes! A Parent to Parent Argument for Montessori Education

LISE ELIOT, Ph.D.
What's Going on in There?

DAVID ELKIND
The Hurried Child

ADELE FABER / E. MAZLISH
How to Talk so Kids will Listen, and Listen
so Kids Will Talk

STAN FERGUSON
What Parents Need to Know About Children

JANE HEALY
Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think,
Failure to Connect

JANE HEALY
How Computers Affect our Children's Mind

JOHN HOLT
How Children Learn

ALFIE KOHN
Punished by Rewards, No Contest

PAULA POLK LILLARD
Montessori - A Modern Approach, Montessori Today

ANGELINA STOLL LILLARD
Montessori: The Science Behind the Genuis

SILVANA QUATTROCCHI MONTANARO, M.D.
Understanding the Human Being

MARY PIPHER
The Shelter of Each Other

MARGARET RIBBLE
Rights of Infants

E.M. STANDING
A Montessori Revolution in Education

JIM TRELEASE
The Read Aloud Handbook

FRANCES G. WICKLES
The Inner World of Childhood

MARIE WINN
The Plug-In Drug

GARY PAUL NABHAN/STEPHEN TRIMBLE
The Geography of the Childhood