Tricky Teens: How to Create a Great Relationship with Your Teen . . . Without Going Crazy!

by Andrew Fuller

Help for any parent with a teenager who is chatty one day and morose the next, who refuses to come out of their room or get off their smart phone, or who argues endlessly with everyone around them

With warmth, good humor, and insight, a clinical psychologist offers crucial advice on achieving a happy home life while raising teens. He focuses on what is actually happening in the teenage brain; common issues that most teens face including anxiety, arguments, computer addiction, peer pressure, perfectionism, and self harm; ways to parent teenage boys and teenage girls—and why these methods differ; identifying and defusing clash points in the family; creating a detailed six-week plan that will help break negative behavior patterns within a family and create positive new ones; and essential conversations you can have with your teen, including information about love, money, drugs, jobs, and personal values, that will help shape them into the wonderful mature people you know they will be one day. For more than 30 years Andrew has worked with teens and their parents. Andrew stresses that teenage boys think and develop differently to teenage girls—and so he offers advice specific to each gender. Overall his main focus is on creating and nurturing open and solid relationships between parents and their teens that will lead into a well-balanced adulthood.

Genres: Parenting

304 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2015

About the author

Andrew Fuller (6 February 1754 – 7 May 1815) was an English Particular Baptist minister and theologian. Known as a promoter of missionary work, he also took part in theological controversy. Fuller is best known in connection with the foundation of the Baptist Missionary Society, to which he for the most part devoted his energies.

Reviews

[Tor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great read from the master of help for parents. Full of practical advice based on sound research. If you are the parent of teenagers or just trying to understand them better, do yourself a favour and buy this book.

[Ruby · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some great tips and insights. Some annoying preachy bits. On the whole, though, this is one of the better parenting books I have read and I might even try out some of this guy's parenting hacks. My little dude is almost a teen and I do feel a little daunted about the whole thing. I may well dig this book out again .

[Lib · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hoping this will help with understanding my son I read this on holidays. It has relieved my concern that he was abnormal and I am a failure as a parent. About to start the 6 week plan. Cross fingers and pray for us.