Grounded for Life?!: Stop Blowing Your Fuse and Start Communicating with Your Teenager - Softcover

Tracy MS, Louise Felton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0943990955 ISBN 13: 9780943990958

Publisher: Parenting Press, 1994

Synopsis

The 10-year-old talks back. The 12-year-old skipped school. The 15-year-old just pierced what?

Parents who are exhausted, frustrated or just plain scared about parenting teens and "almost" teens will appreciate this road map for the middle-school years. Louise Felton Tracy, a social worker and school counselor who survived the adolescence of her own six children, believes that both parents and kids will do better when the focus switches to helping teenagers balance their desires with life's responsibilities.

To guide parents in this transition, each chapter of Grounded for Life?! ends with an easy-to-read list of the steps parents can take to ensure that they and their teenagers keep talking to each other.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Grounded for Life will help you:

-learn how to give your teen the self-responsibility he or she craves

-recognize how risk-taking and the use of natural consequences can become a child's best

teacher

-understand how changing yourself invites your teen to change

-notice a decrease in family tensions as you modify your attitude toward on-going teen

problems

About the Author:

Louise Tracy is the parent of six offspring now in their 20s and 30s. Ms. Tracy has 25 years' experience as a middle-school counselor, social worker, and private counselor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Parenting Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0943990955
• ISBN 13: 9780943990958
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164