1-2-3 magic teen communicate, connect, and guide your teen to adulthood
From rule-breaking and risk-taking to defensive communication and disrespect, parenting a teenager can feel like modern warfare, but it doesn't have to be that way. In 1-2-3 Magic Teen, Thomas W. Phelan explains how to better understand your teenager, which problems are not worth fighting over,...
| Main Author: | Phelan, Thomas W., 1943- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Naperville, Illinois :
Sourcebooks,
[2016]
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| Edition: | Fourth Edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: meet the snub
- Straight thinking
- Appreciating adolescence
- What's normal?
- Risky business
- Diagnosing your own reactions
- Your new job description
- Don't take it personally
- Making sense of the snub
- "Don't take it personally" in action
- Manage and let go
- Six kids : intervention examples
- Establishing house rules
- Managing the big four risks
- Your teens have their MBAs!
- Possible intervention roles
- Stay in touch
- What not to do : the four cardinal sins
- What to do
- Take care of yourself
- The midlife parent
- How to take care of yourself
- Relax and enjoy the movie
- Boomerang kids
- The future
- Appendix : managing other issues
- Index
- About the author.