Let's Make a Contract: Getting Your Teen Through High School and Beyond

PEP - C: Preemptive Parenting by Contract - Creating Teen Successes

For young adolescents, transition from middle school to high school stirs up many emotions ranging from excitement and anticipation to fear and anxiety. Although some issues will dissipate quickly, at this stage in their development, teens tend to strive for individuality and identity, upsetting the apple cart in the way the family has related to each other until now. This is the time for parents to choose their battles wisely and foster loving, structural growth with their adolescent child.

In Let's Make a Contract: Getting Your Teen Through High School and Beyond, the author presents a new concept for helping manage family dynamics during this highly complex phase. It's called Preemptive Parenting by Contract (Pep-C) and, if followed closely, almost every issue teens face during their high school years will already have been discussed or at least be readily at hand.

The numerous contract templates in this book cover curfew, school attendance, grades, attire, cyberbullying, prom night, computer and cell phone use, borrowing the car, the college debate, and much more. Get ahead of the high school trends through preemptive parenting.

Help prepare your teen for the unexpected.
- Learn about the latest high school games that can endanger your teen's life
- Discover how to make enforceable consequences
- Avoid trigger situations before they happen
- Change the way you set boundaries and limits
- Become skilled at making contracts with your teen

This book is a must-have for any parent, guardian, or caregiver (and their teen) who wants to create successes for their teen and young adult through high school and beyond.

BONUS! All contracts in this book are available in electronic form to download, modify, and print.

"This book is well-researched and packed with data but written in a way that any family can relate to. What makes it unique are the specific scripts that target problematic behaviors, with roles for both parent/guardian and teen, which hold everyone accountable." - Kaitlin Tully, PsyD

"Well-written and easy to follow, this book sets out step-by-step instructions for both teens and parents to exhibit accountability and responsibility for their actions. The contracts allow for open communication and for the setting of healthy boundaries within a family." - Elizabeth Vigil, MFTi

Dr. Ann Schiebert has spent 25 years working with families who have unintentionally turned over control of the family to a teen or young adult's drug-using behaviors. She is currently a psychologist in the Emergency Department at the medical center of one of the country's most respected major HMO's. She also works in the medical center's Chemical Dependency Department where she treats patients challenged by trauma, chemical dependency, codependency and dual diagnosis. Ann is the mother of three children. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and her two ragamuffin kittens, Biscuit and Ted E. Bear.