Parenting Teens with Love and Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood (Enlarged)

Brief Description:
Covering a wide range of real-life issues teens face--including divorce of their parents, ADHD, addiction, and sex--this book intends to help parents raise responsible teens who'll find their identity and grow in maturity.

Jacket Description/Back:
Parenting Teens for the Real World
When kids hit the teen years, parenting takes on a whole new dimension. As they struggle toward independence and autonomy, kids face life-and-death decisions long before they're on their own.

So what do you do? Hover over them so they won't get hurt? Drill them so they'll do the right thing? Jim Fay and Dr. Foster Cline believe that the only thing that will effectively prepare teens for the real world is the consistent practice of responsibility. With Love and Logic parenting, you'll learn to give your teens opportunities to make their own decisions, while also allowing them to live with the natural consequences of their mistakes and showing empathy for the pain, disappointment, and frustration they'll experience.

The teen years are challenging, but you also have an incredible opportunity: to guide your children toward and into productive, happy, and responsible adulthood.

Now updated with parenting wisdom for today's world, including new material on cyberbullying and technology.

Foster W. Cline, MD, is an internationally recognized child psychiatrist and consultant to mental-health organizations, parents' groups, and schools across North America. He specializes in working with difficult children. He and his wife reside in Sandpoint, Idaho.

Jim Fay is recognized as one of America's top educational consultants. He successfully guided his three children through their childhood and teen years using love and logic. Today he works alongside his son, Charles, in Golden, Colorado, ensuring that his legacy reaches the next generation.

Publisher Marketing:

Over 1 million sold in the series!

Now updated to address screen time, cyberbullying, and social media.

From the authors of the bestselling Parenting with Love and Logic, this teen-specific resource empowers parents to raise responsible tweens, teens, and young adults without anger, nagging, or power struggles. Learn to set healthy boundaries, encourage important skills, and foster effective decision-making with empathy and grace.

Designed to help you and your child grow during the challenges of the teenage years, this book is filled with strategies and addresses a wide range of real-life issues such as:

• Addiction
• Social media and screen time
• Peer pressure
• Sex and dating
• Divorce and visitation
• Anger and aggression
• Paying for college
• And much more!

Each topic is indexed for easy reference for moms and dads. Learn to reconnect with your teenager, establish a healthy relationship with them, and cultivate a peaceful family culture today!

"This is as close to an owner's manual for parents as you will find. Now, parents can embrace mistakes as wonderful learning opportunities to raise respectful, responsible, and caring children."
- Gloria Sherman, MA, MED, LPC, cofounder, Parenting Partnership

"I have been delighted to share the powerful yet simple wisdom of Jim Fay and Foster Cline with my counseling clients. These principles are practical, proven techniques that keep parents on track to raising responsible, loving, confident children."
- Carol R. Cole, PhD, LMFT

"A terrific book for parents that provides important concepts and practical solutions to help children become emotionally, socially, and morally healthy."
- Terry M. Levy, PhD, codirector of Evergreen Psychotherapy Center; coauthor of Attachment, Trauma, and Healing

"An essential component for our schools, parents, and teachers. Thousands of families have been positively impacted by the love and logic principles."
- Leonard R. Rezmierski, PhD, superintendent support administrator, Wayne RESA