50 Great Tips, Tricks & Techniques to Connect With Your Teen

by Debra Hapenny Ciavola

Warm and heartfelt advice from a practicing psychologist and fellow parent, this book offers fifty ways to connect with your teen. Through humorous anecdotes and endearing stories, find insight into the heart and mind of your adolescent child. Exercises like "Talking in the Dark," "Finding the Missing Piece," and "Open the Door to Humor" instruct and provide common ground that you and your child can use to pull though difficult moments and open up to each other’s point of view. Transform fear and misunderstanding into constructive relationship-building action. Change emotional distance into greater intimacy. Learn to assist your teen to resolve conflict, manage emotions, and remain an active member of the family.

120 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2003

Reviews

[Paky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Temas que se van tratando en dos o tres páginas, a menudo con ejemplos de situaciones concretas y con un enfoque muy de la sociedad norteamericana.

[Marixa Tamez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Está muy bien como para agarrar ideas y sobre llevar de mejor manera esta etapa que siempre pintan como de los diez mil demonios. Después de todo, no me parece tan peor, hasta ahora.

[Sandy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Most ideas are very helpful.