The recommended reading list below is a resource for parents who are looking for general support or more directed education in a specific aspect of parenting teenagers. Odyssey strongly encourages parents to utilize this resource to gain insight and practical applications for themselves and their family. Please click the categories below to view the related reading materials:

• General Parenting, Communication, Relationships
  • Parenting Teens With Love And Logic (Updated and Expanded Edition)
  • Staying Connected to Your Teenager: How to Keep Them Talking to You and How to Hear What They're Really Saying
  • Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility
• Co-Parenting, Blended Families
  • The Co-Parenting Survival Guide: Letting Go of Conflict after a Difficult Divorce
• Drugs and Alcohol
  • Choices and Consequences: What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs
• ADD, ADHD, Learning Differences
  • The Gift Of ADHD: How To Transform Your Child's Problems Into Strengths
  • Wrightslaw: Special Education Law
  • Teenagers with ADD — A Parent’s Guide
• Gender Specific
  • Loving Your Teenage Daughter (Whether She Likes It or Not): The Complete Insider's Guide for Moms
  • Boy Talk: How You Can Help Your Son Express His Emotions
  • Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent
• Adoption
  • Parenting Your Adopted Older Child: How to Overcome the Unique Challenges and Raise a Happy and Healthy Child
• Emotional Issues
  • Family Guide to Emotional Wellness: Proven Self-Help Techniques and Exercises for Dealing With Common Problems and Building Crucial Life Skills
  • When Anger Hurts Your Kids: A Parent's Guide
  • When Anger Hurts Your Relationship: 10 Simple Solutions for Couples Who Fight
  • Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall: A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager, Revised and Updated
  • Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
• Books for Teens
  • Recovering from Depression: A Workbook for Teens
  • Depression: Challenge the Beast within Yourself and Win
  • Second Home: Life in a Boarding School
• Field Guides to Odyssey’s Course Areas: Olympic National Park
  • Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast
  • Exploring Washington Archaeology
  • Exploring Washington's Wild Olympic Coast
  • A Natural History Guide-Olympic National Park
• Field Guides to Odyssey’s Course Areas: Sailing, San Juan Islands
  • The Craft of Sail
  • Sailing: The Basics
  • Creative Ropecraft
  • Exploring the Seashores in British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon
  • The Beachcomber’s Guide: Seashore Life in the Pacific Northwest
  • Gunkholing in the San Juan Islands