 | 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 by Anthony E. Wolf Ph.D.
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.79 Covers the whole territory. The shock of finding that your sweet little treasure is suddenly, or so it seems, a petulant monster. Deals with setting boundaries.
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 | Stop Negotiating With Your Teen: Strategies for Parenting Your Angry, Manipulative, Moody, or Depressed Adolescent by Janet Sasson Edgette
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.50 Sets out very clearly how beating around the bush only makes matters worse - for your adolescent child(ren)...and especially for you!
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 | WHY Do They Act That Way?: A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen by David Walsh
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.42 Helpful no-nonsense overview of the biological and psychological reasons why your adolescent son and/or daughter is behaving the way they are...temporarily.
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 | Staying Connected to Your Teenager: How to Keep Them Talking to You and How to Hear What They're Really Saying by Michael Riera
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $3.99 Easier written than implemented but well written guide to how to be a better parent to your adolescent children. Just don't let them gang up on you...
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 | The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers
Buy new: $11.97 / Used from: $0.28 Confuses good research on girls' problems as a denial of huge problems faced by boys. They still have to run the world, after all. Points to the higher male suicide rate, but fails to explain.
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 | Positive Discipline for Teenagers by Jane Nelsen Ed.D.
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.11 Sets out good guidelines. Perhaps not as applicable to the highly creative adolescent whose goal is to rebel against your kindness. Take heart: you and they will survive.
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 | Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Teens: Simple Ways to Keep Your Cool in Stressful Times (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Series) by Richard Carlson
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $0.01 The title says it all. Easy in adolescence to be hypercritical. As a parent, you're used to being obeyed:adolescence, healthy adolescence, is about asserting the self. Either then or in their 40s.
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 | Parenting Teens With Love And Logic (Updated and Expanded Edition) by Foster Cline
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $15.27 Love conquers all. Difficult to do, but essential to make sure the adolescent knows that s/he is loved - even when being reprimanded, yet again.
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 | Everything You Never Wanted Your Kids to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid They'd Ask): The Secrets to Surviving Your Child's Sexual Development from Birth to the Teens by Justin Richardson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.93 One minute, cute child. Next minute hormones on legs. And the questions!! Especially the ones they ask each other instead of you.
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 | I'm Not Mad, I Just Hate You!: A New Understanding of Mother-Daughter Conflict by Roni Cohen-Sandler
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Some insight into tumultuous times between mothers and daughters. Good on the logic and confirming that you are NOT the only mother with a fiery, sulky, insulting daughter - temporarily.
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 | Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self by Sara Shandler
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $0.01 I never liked Shakespeare's portrayal of women - they were either shrews or sacrificial lambs. These girls suffer - undoubtedly - but not all girls are Ophelia. This litany forgets the positives.
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