- ISBN13: 9780399527890
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
A psychologist offers peace-making strategies for parents who don’t know where to turn.
The sullen, withdrawn, sarcastic teenager. The defensive, wary, and helpless parent. This book builds a bridge between the two sides–with practical and supportive advice on how to:
* Contain conflicts before they escalate into violence
* Break through the teen’s verbal intimidation
* Avoid futile arguments
* Turn confrontation into communication
* Stand firm against teen rage
* Manage teen manipulation
* Build the teen’s self-esteem
* Talk to teens when no one knows what to say
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April 25, 2010 at 5:45 am
I was an angry, manipulative, moody and depressed adolescent–in fact I wrote about it in my book, CONFESSIONS OF A CATHOLIC SCHOOLGIRL by Michelle Kane.
This book has some outstanding strategies that may have worked if my parents paid enough attention to me and stopped fighting with each other long enough to try some of them.
April 25, 2010 at 8:33 am
As a therapist of twenty years working primarily with teens and their parents, I am constantly looking for books which will help.
This one will do the trick for most parents that I see in my office who seem to need “permission to parent.”
For support of a more spiritual nature, take a peek at my book, which offers daily meditations to help keep us grounded during this tumultous and ever-changing time! What an adventure!
April 25, 2010 at 9:58 am
I’m 16 years old, and I suffer from depression. I know what it feels like, how painful it is and how it can dig deep into you and tear you apart. This book does not seem to acknowledge that.
It’s perceptive all right, but it’s still pretty shallow. Parents are reccomended to be “firm against teen rage”. What? Yes, many teens have rage. They are angry, moody or unsure. They get restless, irritable and often chemicals in their brain imbalance. Part of this is because they are not kids anymore and they start to question authority. There’s nothing wrong with this. If we want to have strong, independent and self-desicive individuals, treating them as simply “statistical adolescent” will not help. Kids should know WHY there are rules, THAT their parents care and HOW their parents can help. Parents should approach their kids in a calm, unfrightened manner. They should symphasize, encourage and explain their own feelings to their kids. People are social creatures that feel for others. They’re not machines that need to “run properly”.
It’s true that teens should respect their parents, but they should also have respect for every living thing. Parents seem to want to just boss around their children at their own leisure, misinterpreting the fact that children as just as much people as adults.
This book may provide some answers, but it’s not very unique nor realistic in doing so.
April 25, 2010 at 12:41 pm
I received this product in just a few days. The product was advertised as “good” but it was actually almost new. The only marking in the book was inside the front cover, and I am very pleased with the seller and the product.
April 25, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Perfect condition I liked this book because it gave me some great examples of real people with similar problems to my own that I could relate with