10 Best Gifts for Your Teen: Raising Teens With Love and Understanding - Softcover

Saso, Patt; Saso, Steven Paul; Saso, Steve; Patt And Steve Saso

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1893732053 ISBN 13: 9781893732056

Publisher: Sorin Books, 1999

Synopsis

Patt and Steve Saso navigated all the parenting perils from infancy to preteen insecurity, but nothing could prepare them for the unpredictably of adolescence. One day their teenager might say, "I love you," after the morning ride to school, and the next he might sit in the back seat, sulking in silence. In 10 Best Gifts For Your Teen, the Sasos offer valuable advice to help families maintain strong relationships through the often turbulent teenage years.

Combining Patt's expertise as a marriage and family therapist with Steve's experience as a high school educator, the Sasos share personal and professional anecdotes in this dispatch from the parenting trenches, detailing what adolescents want and need from their parents for emotional support. Teenagers will test the limits. Parents will make mistakes. But no matter how distant and resentful they appear to be, or how disrespectful of parental authority, teenagers internalize their parents' words and actions.

10 Best Gifts For Your Teen--which include respect, room, role-modeling, responsibility and reconciliation--teaches parents how to relate when needed, and to relent when necessary, offering support without infringing on their teenagers' burgeoning sense of freedom.

Patt and Steve Saso have shared their wisdom through their Saso Seminars, providing inspiration and information to help parents raise respectful and successful children. And now, with 10 Best Gifts For Your Teen, they have given a gift to parents across the country who want their teenager's transition from childhood to adulthood to be a smooth and rewarding one.

About this title

About the Author

Patricia Slovik Saso and Steven Paul Saso are well-known nationally for their work with parents and teens.

Patt is a marriage and family therapist with a private practice in Milpitas, California. She is also executive director of Saso Seminars, an inspirational organization committed to providing parents and teachers with the tools they need to raise successful children.

In addition to Steve's work as a seminar leader, he is also a high school educator, counselor, and administrator. Since 1987 he has been on the faculty at Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, California.

The Sasos have three children.

From the Back Cover

Raising teens with love and understanding is perhaps more challenging today than ever. While adolescence can sometimes be as frightening and challenging for parents as it is for their children, a strong parent-teen relationship can be both influential and rewarding.

Patt and Steve Saso combine their expertise as a counselor and high school teacher with hard-knocks wisdom from the parenting trenches to offer practical and engaging guidance. They stress that parents are the only ones who can offer ten gifts that make all the difference for their teens.

- Respect
- Receptivity
- Responsibility
- Room
- Reconciliation
- Role-Modeling
- Revelation of Self
- Resolve
- Release

Here are both the encouragement and skills parents need to build strong relationships with their teens.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sorin Books
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1893732053
• ISBN 13: 9781893732056
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144