Power Up Your Parenting: A Practical Guide for Parenting Preteen and Teen Girls

Power Up Your Parenting is a conversational and comprehensive guide for parents of teen and preteen girls. In an engaging style, author, Erica Rood, applies over a decade of experience coaching teens and young adults to reveal what parents can do to best support their daughters during one of the most challenging and exciting stages of life. Rood empowers parents with a unique look into the world of teens and offers a step-by-step approach to supporting girls through personal, social, and academic challenges.

Rood addresses the most common teen challenges and parent concerns while offering thoughtful advice. This book provides effective parenting strategies including how to:

• Get through to your teen.
• Guide your teen through friendship and school challenges.
• Foster a healthy self-esteem so your teen can connect with her purpose and passion.
• Promote your teen's sense of responsibility, resilience, compassion, and gratitude.

Rood's favorite coaching tools, designed for both teens and parents, help the relationship to thrive with a lasting impact.

Erica is the founder of Inspire Balance Coaching. She has over fifteen years of experience coaching and teaching parents, teens, and young adults. Her work has been featured in San Diego Family magazine, The Balanced Mom magazine, and EPIC Conscious Living magazine. Power Up Your Parenting is her first book.

Karin, who prefers to go by her Korean name Shinhae, lives in San Diego, California. Kang is currently a junior at Canyon Crest Academy and participates in an after school art program called Envision Visual Arts Conservatory. Kang started drawing at a very young age and continues to pursue different disciplines of art at school and in her free time. Kang was never good at expressing herself with words but through art, she found that she was able to share her emotions and ideas with ease. At the time of publication, Kang aspires to graduate from Rhode Island School of Design with a degree in illustration and work as a full time artist in the future.

As Vice President for The Electronic Bookshelf for 5 years, Colleen Ster taught and conducted training sessions to librarians and teachers around the country. Time and again, moving on to be Marketing Director for Scholastic Reading Counts! for 3 years in the New York City office, educators continued to tell Ster that they were seeking books to assist children to help them navigate through difficult life situations. From years of product development and input from librarians and teachers over a 15 year period, Ster created a book series called "Kids Helping Kids Through Books" as a resource for parents and children to access when they are going through a difficult life situation. Ster also has served in numerous volunteer positions as: - VP Philanthropy for National Charity League - 2 years, member for 16 years - Elder and member at Solana Beach Presbyterian Church (SBPC) - Creator of CS 365: Year-round Volunteer Program at SBPC - Volunteer for Read Naturally Program - Implemented Scholastic Reading Counts! program at Ronald McDonald House-San Diego and Sage Canyon Elementary School