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Louise Felton Tracy (Author)
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Book Description

January 1994
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 preteens, here’s a road map from a social worker and school counselor who survived the adolescence of her own six children. Louise Felton Tracy believes both parents and kids 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).

A recipient of the Parents Choice' Approval Award.


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"It gives parents the hope and knowledge needed to make change effectively." -- Publishers Marketing, Summer 1994

"This book makes the job of parenting easier by teaching parents a child-rearing process that builds on communication, cooperative problem solving and individual strengths." -- Family Times, May 1996

"You won't put it down." -- Terri Payne Butler, Parents' Choice 1994 Awards issue

From the Back Cover

Grounded for Life will help you:

-learn how to give your teen the self-responsibility he or she craves

-recognize how risk-taking and the use of natural consequences can become a child's best

teacher

-understand how changing yourself invites your teen to change

-notice a decrease in family tensions as you modify your attitude toward on-going teen

problems


Product Details

  • Paperback: 164 pages
  • Publisher: Parenting Press (January 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0943990955
  • ISBN-13: 978-0943990958
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,155,955 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Must read if you have a teenager, January 8, 2003
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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!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Grounded For Life, April 13, 2011
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I dont agree with all the views of this book and quickly passed it on. It discusses some valuable advice for new parents of teenagers.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I saw myself...., April 10, 2007
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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!
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