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

By Louise Felton Tracy and Louise Felton Tracy MS

Book Overview

Ideal for parents who feel responsible for their teen's hair, clothes, bedroom, grades, and behavior, this adolescent-rearing resource offers a process for parenting that helps parents distinguish the important issues for healthy teen growth. Grounded for Life? will help parents give their teen the independence he or she craves, recognize how natural consequences can be a child's most effective teachers, understand how changing themselves can invite their teen to change, and restore peace to the family.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0943990955
• ISBN13: 9780943990958
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Parenting Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

I saw myself....

I saw myself in this book, and it wasn't pretty. We try so hard as parents to do the right thing, to give sound advice, to hear our kids out and even go to their defense. The thing I learned most from this book is that I actually hindered my childrens' growth in becoming responsible teens and maybe missed out on some real opportunities for communication. This book should be required reading for parents of children entering the "tween" years and middle school!

Must read if you have a teenager

I have an acting up teenager daughter, I have a lot of problems with her. I try to learn to be a BETTER teenager parent. This is the MUST read book. The author really knows what you are going through, what you are thinking and guides you how to handle them. This is the best teenager parenting book I read so far. Practical, Sound, and Effective!