Supplemental Materials
These supplemental materials, purchased separately, are additional products that support and enhance the programs.
Visit our Purchasing page for pricing and ordering information.The Incredible Years, A Trouble-shooting Guide for Parents of Children Aged 3-8 Years (3rd Edition)
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Parents
The 3rd edition of this book for parents has been revised to include new and expanded chapters on coaching (academic, persistence, social and emotion coaching), plus new chapters on social media, screen time, and promoting a healthy lifestyle. This is an amazing book that covers research-based parenting strategies for all families. Positive discipline techniques are described in detail illustrated with true-to-life examples to help parents prevent behavior problems and promote their children’s social and emotional competence. Language Versions Available: English, Spanish
Los Años Increíbles (The Incredible Years, A Trouble-shooting Guide for Parents of Children Aged 3-8 Years, 3rd Edition)
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Parents
The Spanish-language version of the 3rd Edition of our Incredible Years book, by Carolyn Webster-Stratton, PhD. Guidelines and strategies for parents to promote children’s social and emotional competence. This is an amazing book that covers research-based parenting strategies for all families. Positive discipline techniques are described in detail illustrated with true-to-life examples. The Incredible Years covers strategies to help parents prevent behavior problems as well as promote their children’s social and emotional competence (3rd Edition revised in 2019). In Spanish
Collaborating with Parents to Reduce Children’s Behavior Problems
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Administrators and clinicians interested in IY program methods and content
This book by Carolyn Webster-Stratton has two elements: 1.) Allows parents to tell their stories: sharing what it is like to have a “problem” child as well as the long and painful route to finding support and recovery through parent and child training. 2.) Describes in detail the “collaborative process” of therapists working together with families. This process combines the knowledge and expertise of the clinician with the unique strengths, perspectives, culture and goals of parents. Read the full description
Incredible Babies Book
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Parents
The Incredible Babies book describes how to promote and understand your babies’ physical, social, emotional and language development. It includes safety alerts, developmental principles, and a journal section where you can capture and preserve your memories of your baby’s likes and dislikes, favorite songs, stories and daily routines. Organized around the developmental baby stages of 0-3 months, 4-6 months and 6-12 months, the book provides simple but effective techniques to help you observe, read and learn about your babies’ cues, signals and unique temperament: Cope with babies’ crying and fussy periods, Baby-proof your home, Understand how babies learn from your responsive interactions, Speak “parent-ese,” sing and read to your baby, provide optimal physical, tactile, auditory and visual stimulation, Begin to set up predictable routines and rituals, Learn strategies to keep your baby and yourself calm. Language Versions Available: English, Spanish
My Incredible Baby: Journal of My Baby’s First Year in My Family
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Parents
This baby journal provides a place for parents to keep track of their babies’ growth and development. Parents can record and preserve memories of babies’ likes and dislikes, temperament, feeding routine, favorite songs, stories, and play activities. It is organized around the developmental stages at 0-3 months, 4-6 months, and 6-12 months. It includes checklists where parents can record the baby’s view point with “Things I can do,” including when baby learns to first sit, know her name, say baba, roll over, crawl, pull to stand, feed herself and so forth. It also includes pages to record outings and visits with friends and family members. There is a temperament questionnaire for your baby and yourself, a support journal and a baby-proofing checklist. Fun to keep this and read to your children when they are older.
Incredible Toddlers
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Parents
The Incredible Toddlers book shows how to promote and understand your toddler’s physical, social, emotional and language development. It includes safety alerts, developmental principles, and a journal section where you can capture and preserve your memories of your toddler’s likes and dislikes, favorite songs, stories and daily routines. The book is organized around helping toddlers accomplish three developmental milestones: (1) secure attachment or bonding with parents; (2) development of language, social and emotional expression and (3) developing a sense of self and unique individuality.
Incredible Toddlers, by Carolyn Webster Stratton - Download Chapter 3
Helping Preschool Children with Autism: Parents and Teachers as Partners
This item is for: Group Leaders of Autism programs
This item is for: Parents, Teachers
This book provides parents and teachers of children on the autism spectrum (aged 2-5 years) with strategies for promoting children’s optimal social, emotional, language, and academic competence. It includes verbal and nonverbal strategies to help caregivers to enter in children’s attention spotlight and expand their interest and joy in relationships with others. The book includes sample adult-child social and emotion coaching scripts for interacting with children and suggestions for modeling, initiating, and prompting social behaviors and joint activities. Also included are other connection and communication strategies such as sensory games, visual prompts and pictures, gestures, pretend and puppet play, and intentional communication.
Experts in Action: Parent Groups Program
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
4 DVDs (5+hours) and Leader’s Guide Certified leaders conducting live parent groups of the BASIC Incredible Years Parent Program. See examples of group leaders conducting the Limit Setting and Handling Misbehavior Programs with parents of children ages 3-6 years. The DVD’s include a leader’s guide with questions to think about in regard to the group leader’s skills as well as Dr. Webster-Stratton’s interpretation of the collaborative leadership skills being used by leaders with the parents. View full description of all parent program Experts in Action and clips Group leaders who have received the initial training for the BASIC Parenting Program will find these DVD’s an invaluable resource for furthering their group leadership skills. These videos can be used for self-study or viewed with other group leaders and used as a trigger for discussion of group leadership skills.
Experts in Action: Cross-Cultural Parent Groups Program
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
2 DVDs (3+hours) and Leader’s Guide Watch parenting groups using interpreters. Two DVDs of live sessions from the BASIC Program showing how to effectively incorporate interpreters into your group sessions. The DVD’s include a leader’s guide with questions to think about in regard to the group leader’s skills as well as Dr. Webster-Stratton’s interpretation of the collaborative leadership skills being used by leaders with the parents. View full description and clips Group leaders who have received the initial training for the BASIC Parenting Program will find these DVD’s an invaluable resource for furthering their group leadership skills. These videos can be used for self-study or viewed with other group leaders and used as a trigger for discussion of group leadership skills.
Experts in Action: Parents and Babies Group Program
Two DVDs showing certified leaders conducting live parent groups of the Incredible Years Parents and Babies’ Program. DVDs show examples of Session Five, Parents Learning to Read Babies’ Minds and Session Seven, Babies Emerging Sense of Self (6-12 months) with parents and their babies. The leader’s guide includes reflection topics to aid group leaders in developing their skills and collaborative leadership strategies. The guide also offers commentary on topics related to: baby proofing one’s home, developmental milestones, putting babies to sleep at night, feeding babies their first solids and parents seeking support for their parenting efforts.
Experts in Action: Autism Programs
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent and Teacher ASD programs
These videos on 2 DVDs show program developer Dr. Carolyn Webster-Stratton delivering the Incredible Years Workshop (2018) for training group leaders in the IY Parenting Program for Children (ages 2-5) on the Autism Spectrum or with Language Delays and in the IY Program for Parents and Teachers as Partners who work with children on the Autism Spectrum. In these DVDs you will see Dr. Webster-Stratton “in role” as group leader, modeling how to train parents and teachers to deliver these programs. She shows how group leaders can mediate the video vignettes with parents and teachers participating in these program, and how to set up practice role-plays.
This program will be useful for group leaders, Mentors and Trainers who are leading the IY Parent or Teacher Autism programs. In addition to IY group leaders receiving the 3-day Autism training led by accredited IY Mentors, these DVDs can be used as a self-study tool to support IY group leaders in their delivery of the programs. This program can also be used by group leaders of the Basic Parent and Incredible Beginnings Program to enhance their program delivery. View a video clip from this program
Experts in Action: Parent Group Leader Workshop Training Samples
This item is for: Group Leaders learning to deliver the IY Parent Program
This item is for: IY Peer Coaches in their work with new Group Leaders
This item is for: IY Mentors for review and study of training workshops
This item is for: Administrators and clinicians interested in IY program methods and content
These 8 DVDs are an opportunity for group leaders implementing the Incredible Years Parenting Program to see the developer discuss her theory and rationale for the collaborative methods and processes underlying the successful group delivery of this program. The DVD clips show Carolyn Webster-Stratton modeling how to mediate video vignettes, do benefits/barriers exercises, buddy buzzes, pull out principles, and set up role play practices. She explains how to work collaboratively with parents and tailor the program to the specific population being addressed so that it is meaningful and targeted at their goals. The DVDs are also for IY peer coaches in their work with new group leaders, IY mentors for review and study of their training workshops, and administrators and clinicians interested in the methods and content of the Incredible Years programs. View full description and view video clips from this program
Experts in Action: Sample Home Visit Coaching DVD
This item is for: Group Leaders experienced with the IY Parent Programs
This 2 DVD set shows how the Home Visit Coaching program is delivered in the home and provides examples of the first home visit which includes how to explain the program to a parent, goal setting, mediating video vignettes with children being present, setting up practices sessions and introducing a new topic. See vignettes of a coach covering the persistence coaching topic and more. This DVD is a companion to the Home Coach Self-Administered Manuals (below). Read the full description for both products
Home Coaching Program – Self-Administered Parent Manuals
This item is for: Group Leaders experienced with the IY Parent Programs
The Home Coaching program self-administered manuals for the Preschool and School-Age BASIC Parenting Programs include a leader’s manual covering protocols for ten program topic areas. Three parent manuals are included for the Baby and the Toddler programs. Four parent manuals for the Preschool program are included. Five parent manuals for the School Age program are included. The Home Coaching program is a one-on-one parent-coach model that is used to supplement the Baby, Toddler, Preschool and School-Age BASIC parenting groups. Read the full description and see the Home Visiting Coach page.
Language Versions Available: English, Norwegian
Child and Parents Conversation Card Game (for children 8-16 years)
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Parents and children
This fun conversation game includes two card decks, one used by the child and the other used by parents. Adult and child take turns asking a question while the other answers. Example parent deck questions include, “what do you like to do best with me?”, “what are two important household rules?”, “what is the best way I can help with your homework?”, “what do you say to yourself to stay calm?”, “what is the hardest part about being a kid?”, “what would be the menu of your ultimate birthday dinner?” Example child deck questions include, “what can I do to earn a reward?” or, “is it ever okay to tell a lie?”, or, “what is the story behind my name?” or, “what do you like to do best with me?”, or “what was I like as a preschooler?”, or, “when do you think I can baby-sit?” or, “are there any projects we can work on together?” Watch a video clip of game play
Incredible Parents Conversation Card Game
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Parents
This card game facilitates discussion between parents about parenting strategies and goals. This game can be played with Incredible Years parent groups or with friends, group buddies, or between partners. During parent groups, it is suggested that leaders introduce the game mid-way through the program and then play it again on the last night as part of the final session celebration. Half of the deck focuses on the foundational part of the IY pyramid and the other half comprises of questions about handling misbehavior. Parents take turns asking each other questions such as: “how do you find time to schedule some personal time for yourself?”, “what is the most fun thing you do with your child?”, “what is one way you used the attention principle successfully?”, and “what are two behaviors you look for when doing Incredible Years social coaching?” Examples of questions from the section on handling misbehavior include: “how do you stay calm when using the ignoring strategy?”, “what are two good consequences for 5-6 year olds?”, and “what is one principle you have learned in Incredible Years that you have used successfully?”
Wally’s Detective Books (set of 4)
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent, Child and Teacher programs
This item is for: Parents and Teachers to use with children
These small books are designed for parents and teachers to use with children in small groups or one-on-one. (Sold as set of four.) Book One: Wally’s Detective Book for Solving Problems at School: 28 difficult situations Wally encounters at school. Parent or teacher reads the child a scenario and asks them for possible solutions. Book Two: Wally’s Detective Book for Solving Problems at Home: 22 difficult situations Wally encounters at home. Book Three: Wally Meets Dina Dinosaur: The story of Wally, who is 7 years old, and has difficulty sitting still and gets in trouble for blurting out answers during class. Book Four: Wally Learns a Lesson from Tiny Turtle: Tiny Turtle teaches Wally how to manage his anger by going into his shell to calm down. Read more about using these books
Language Versions Available: English, Spanish, Norwegian
Parenting Pyramid® Poster
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Parents
The Parenting Pyramid® poster is a visual used by the Group Leader with parent participants to show the sequence of topics covered in the parent program. It provides a representation for building a strong foundation by beginning with the bottom of the pyramid, which concentrates on the positive affect, building a strong relationship with the children, and promoting children’s social competence, emotional literacy and cooperative behaviors. The Pyramid poster is referred to at each group meeting to give the parents a sense of where they are in the program, what they have already learned, and what is still to come. Poster dimensions: 16.3 x 18.7″
Build up Your Bank Account Piggy Bank Poster
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This poster can be used to highlight how parents in Incredible Years parent groups are investing in their children by playing with them, coaching social and emotional skills, and praising and encouraging their child’s efforts. At the start of each parent group, the group leader can ask the parents to share a home activity they did with their child that they are proud of (this can be done in buddy pairs or with the whole group). The poster can be used to illustrate a parent’s particular investment in his/her child. 
The fundamental purpose of the Piggy Bank poster is to demonstrate the concept that when parents invest in their relationship with their child by playing and caring for them, they have a bank account they can draw on when times become more difficult and they need to impose a consequence. Moreover, this investment in their relationship is a long-term investment in their child’s emotional and social development.
Language Versions Available: English, Spanish
Poster dimensions: 17″ x 11″
Advance Program Parent Pyramid Poster – Relationship Building
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Parents
The Advance Program Parent Pyramid poster, “Pyramid for Building Relationships,” can be used by the group leader as a visual to highlight for parents the topics covered in the program and the skills they are learning in the program: effective communication strategies, anger and depression management, and ways to give and get support, and problem-solving skills
Language Versions Available: English, Estonian, Russian
Poster dimensions: 17 x 20″
Autism Program Parent Pyramid Poster
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Parents
The Autism Program Parent Pyramid poster can be used by the group leader as a visual to show parent participants to the sequence of topics covered in the program. It provides a representation for building a strong foundation by beginning with the bottom of the pyramid, which concentrates on building a positive relationship with their children through child-directed play, and using coaching methods to promote children’s language development, social skills, and self-regulation skills. This pyramid poster can be referred to at each group meeting to give the parents a sense of where they are in the program, what they have already learned, and what is still to come. Poster dimensions: 17 x 20″
Get Into Your Child’s Attention Spotlight Poster
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This poster can be used to highlight how parents in Incredible Years parent groups can get into their child’s “attention spotlight”. This poster specifically fits the themes of the Autism Spectrum and Language Delays program, but could be used for other IY parent groups as well! Poster dimensions: 17″ x 11″
Baby Brain Posters (set of 3) (17″ x 11″)
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This set of 3 posters features an image of a baby crawling and a variety of neurons. Neurons text indicates methods by which parents can strengthen neural connections in their babies for building social relationships, language and cognitive development, and emotional development. These posters can be used by group leaders to explain the many ways parents are helping the development of their baby’s brain. Since babies have over 10 billion neurons at birth, each of which can make 100,000 connections, parents play an important role in strengthening the most important connections that will last over time. Some of the ways neurons are strengthened include – speaking “parent-ese”, eye contact, mirroring babies sounds and expressions, nurturing, familiar rhythmic motion, baby proofing, predictable routines, baby aerobics, reciprocal tango dance, singing songs and staying calm.
Toddler Brain Development Neurons Poster (17″ x 20″)
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
The Toddler Brain Development Neurons poster can be used by group leaders to highlight the emerging development of toddlers. Neurons text indicate the ways parents can strengthen neural connections in their toddlers for building social relationships, language and cognitive development, and emotional development. Parents play an important role in the development of their child’s brain, strengthening the most important neural connections that will last over time. Some of the ways neurons are strengthened include – parents’ predictable responses and routines, positive attention, child-directed play, providing healthy food and exercise, and daily reading time.
Attentive Parenting Poster (17″ x 11″)
This item is for: Attentive Parenting Program
This poster features the different gardening tools parents can use to “Nurture Positive Growth.” I.e., Encourage Problem Solving, Support Daily Social Growth, Cultivate Emotional Regulation, Use Coaching Methods, and Tend Seeds that Grow Love. Language Versions Available: English, Norwegian
Parenting Tool Kit (set of 3 posters)
This item is for: Teachers using the Teacher Classroom Management Series
This item is for: Parents and Group Leaders using the Parenting Programs
This set of 3 colorful “toolbox” posters feature tools with text covering key behavior management principles, emotion and thought concepts (building positive relationships, emotion regulation, reducing misbehavior) taught in the Incredible Years parent or teacher programs. Examples of tools include modeling, scaffolding, having fun, redirecting, staying calm, labeled praise, positive-self talk, predictable routines, ignoring, and consequences. Group leaders can use these posters to introduce and review parenting and teaching tools with group participants. Dimensions: 11″ x 17″ Language Versions Available: English, Spanish Read the full description.
Calm Down Thermometer Poster
This item is for: Attentive Parenting Program, Child Training Programs
This laminated Calm Down Thermometer Poster is a visual representation of how to change emotions from “red hot mad” to “cool blue.” The poster has a brightly colored thermometer in the middle with a Velcro strip and arrow on the side. Children are taught to move the arrow up and down to show how they are feeling. Children who are feeling angry learn to take deep breaths or to use another calm-down strategy to get themselves back into the “blue zone.” View the full description and use tips Language Versions Available: English, Spanish Poster dimensions: 17″ x 11″
Tiny Turtle Hand Puppet
This item is for: Autism Programs, Attentive Parenting Program
This smaller hand puppet may be used in conjunction with child training programs. The Tiny Turtle Puppet may be used as a tool for teaching anger management strategies and sharing ways to calm down and work in friendly ways with others. Tiny teaches about positive self-talk, developing pleasurable and safe imaginary places, and deep breathing secrets. Tiny Turtle is good for working with children on the autism spectrum or with children experiencing anxiety. The Tiny Turtle puppet may also be used to explain feelings that occur when problems occur and role-play solutions encountered in the child book “Wally Learns a Lesson From Tiny Turtle.” Each puppet is sold separately. Size: Tiny Turtle is about 10″ long. Tiny Turtle puppet © Folkmanis, Inc.
Tiny Tortoise Hand Puppet
This item is for: Autism Programs, Attentive Parenting Program
This smaller hand puppet may be used in conjunction with child training programs. The Tiny Tortoise Puppet may be used as a tool for teaching anger management strategies and sharing ways to calm down and work in friendly ways with others. Tiny teaches about positive self-talk, developing pleasurable and safe imaginary places, and deep breathing secrets. Tiny Tortoise is good for working with children on the autism spectrum or with children experiencing anxiety. The Tiny Tortoise puppet may also be used to explain feelings that occur when problems occur and role-play solutions encountered in the child book “Wally Learns a Lesson From Tiny Turtle.” Each puppet is sold separately. Size: Tiny Tortoise is about 12″ long. Tortoise puppet © Folkmanis, Inc.
Incredible Years Stickers (roll)
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Parents
“You are incredible!”, “I am an incredible parent!” Stickers to encourage parents. Sticker dimension: 1.5″ x 1.5″ (50 stickers per roll) Language Versions Available: English, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish
Attentive Parenting Stickers (roll)
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Parents
Six different types of stickers to encourage parents and reinforce positive parenting skills. “Attentive Parents Nurture Positive Growth,” “Attentive Parents Use Coaching Methods,” “Attentive Parents Tend Seeds of Love,” “Attentive Parents Support Daily Growth, “Attentive Parents Cultivate Emotion Regulation,” “Attentive Parents Encourage Problem Solving.” Sticker dimension: 1.4″ x 1.4″ (50 stickers per roll) Language Versions Available: English, Norwegian
Baby Stickers (roll)
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Parents
Parenting stickers with fun sayings that affirm positive parenting skills. There are eight different sticker types included on each roll. View all eight sticker sayings Sticker dimension: 1.4″ x 1.4″ (50 stickers per roll)
Parenting Pyramid® Magnet
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Parents
Parenting Pyramid® Magnets summarize the key concepts of the program. Group participants are given a magnet to post their home activities on the refrigerator between sessions. Size: 3 x 2.75″
Magnet – Piggy Bank
This item is for: Small Group Dinosaur Therapy, Classroom Dinosaur Curriculum, Parents and Group Leaders of Parenting Programs
Piggy bank magnets remind teachers of the investment they are making when they spend time playing, coaching, loving, encouraging and problem solving with their children. Size: 3 x 3″ Language Versions Available: English, Spanish, French, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Portuguese, & Finnish
Promoting Brain Development – Magnet
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Parents
A fun magnet illustrating the important aspects of child brain development. Positive coaching, predictable routines, and staying calm. Parents can use this as a reminder about how they can promote their child’s development. Dimensions: 3 x 4″
Magnet – Attentive Parenting
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Parents
The Attentive Parenting Magnet that goes with the “Attentive Parenting” Program, but can be given to any parents participating in a parenting course. Size is 3″x4″ and text at the bottom reads “Nurturing Positive Growth.”
Magnet – Getting in your Child’s Attention Spotlight
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Parents
Parent Magnet that goes with the “Autism Spectrum and Language Delays” Program, but can be given to any parents participating in a parenting course. Size is 3″x4″ and text at the bottom reads “Get into Your Child’s Attention Spotlight.”
Small Feeling Face Cards on Key Ring
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Parents, Teachers, Children
These small “feeling face” cards are for parents or teachers working with young children to teach them feelings and emotion literacy. Children can flip through the cards on the key ring to help enhance their feelings vocabulary. They can use the cards to help them share their feelings.
**NEW** Small Self Regulation Cards on Key Ring
This item is for: Group Leaders of Parent programs
This item is for: Parents, Teachers, Children
These 8 small self regulation cards are for parents or teachers working with young children, especially children on the Autism Spectrum to teach them self regulation skills to calm down, ignore, relax, etc. Children can practice these skills with a parent or teacher.