Complete Idiot's Guide to Parenting a Teenager

by Kate Kelly

This information packed-guide offers comforting, down-to-earth advice to overwhelmed parents for dealing with such matters as homework and moodiness, sex and smoking, and overall comminication. Humorous sidebars help put things in perspective.

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

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Kelly, Kate, 1950- (from Library of Congress)

As a professional writer, Kate Kelly specializes in helpful nonfiction and has more than 24 titles to her credit. Topics range from business subjects to raising teenagers; she also writes on health and wellness. Kelly works as both a collaborator with experts and as author of her own books.

Kate Kelly is well known to the media as a reliable expert on parenting and on family safety. She is frequently quoted in magazines and newspapers and appears regularly on television.

Some of her titles are The Teen Health Book (Norton), which she worked on with adolescent medicine specialist Ralph I. Lopez, M.D., and Living Safe in an Unsafe World (NAL), for which she has done a great deal of media recently because of the heightened public interest in safety. In addition, there is continuing media interest in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Parenting a Teenager.

Reviews

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

This poor book (in the edition I read) doesn't know about cell phones. But overall, a great overview of teen issues and a level-headed, warm approach to maintaining communication and limits. Recommended.