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

Louise Felton Tracy (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0943990955 ISBN 13: 9780943990958

Publisher: Chicago Review Press, 1994

Synopsis

Your 10-year-old talks back. Your 12-year-old skipped school. Your 15-year-old just pierced what? If you're exhausted, frustrated or just plain scared about parenting teens and "almost" teens, here's a road map. 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 you in this transition, each chapter of Grounded for Life?! ends with an easy-to-read list of the steps you'll want to take to ensure that you and your teenager keep talking to each other. For parents who find themselves backsliding into old discipline patterns, Tracy provides gentle reassurance and stories about her own challenges (and successes, however small).

About this title

Review

Recipient of the Parents' Choice Approval Award. "If you're the parent of a 10- to 15-year-old, pick up a copy of Grounded for Life?! ... You won't put it down."

"This may be the best book written for a popular audience ... Grounded for Life?! is straightforward about what is important in parenting teens."

Synopsis

Offers advice on improving communication with teenagers by giving them more responsibility for themselves and by allowing them to learn from their actions through natural consequences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0943990955
• ISBN 13: 9780943990958
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164