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How to Keep Being a Parent, When your child stops being a child. A practical guide to parenting adolescents

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How To Keep Being A Parent When Your Child Stops Being A Child: A Practical Guide To Parenting Adolescents was written to help parents understand the developmental issues of adolescence and assist them in facilitating the teenager's transition into healthy adulthood. Nic Cooper and Rick McCoy successfully collaborate to present practical strategies for creating positive relationships with teens who are testing their limits, and include worksheets to help parents examine their own family histories and personal issues. Practical, "reader friendly", insightful, and at times even inspirational, How To Keep Being A Parent When Your Child Stops Being A Child is ardently recommended reading for any father or mother trying to cope with, guide, and support their teenage son or daughter.

A marvelous book. This reader has purchased and read many books on the subject of adolescents, including those from Focus on the Family. While many of these books give good advice, most stop short of the practical, 'how to' advice many adults need when relating to young people. These authors have succeeded where others failed in capturing and clarifying many of the mysteries of an extremely perplexing and frustrating time of life, that being adolescence. They offer many practical suggestions on better relating to and respecting teens. Readers will find this book both edifying and encouraging. All who deal with youth will benefit from this book.

I found "How to Keep Being a Parent When Your Child Stops Being a Child" to be minimally beneficial. It skims the major issues while teaching parents basic skills. I feel that if a parent is looking for help raising adolescents this book will not give them enough information and advice to be helpful.

This is a great book! It gets to the Heart of things...the exercises and techniques are simple and practical without being artificiality or head games. You and your child can be as close to each other's hearts as you ever were, even while they are flying away.

The book "How To Keep Being A Parent...When Your Child Stops Being A Child" is such a reader friendly book. The vocabulary is such that parents of all ages and educational levels can benefit from the advice. Although I am an educator, I found the book useful in my important role as a parent of an adolescent. The strategies tried have proved useful so far. The authors were outstanding with their examples to illustrate their points. All who read could identify. One example would be when Rick referred to a parent "letting go" with the visual of water skiing. If you don't let go of the rope when you fall, you can get hurt. Now that is something all could understand. Thank you to the authors for their suggestions. As a parent and a teacher, I never stop learning!

The book "How To Keep Being A Parent...When Your Child Stops Being A Child" is such a reader friendly book. The vocabulary is such that parents of all ages and educational levels can benefit from the advice. Although I am an educator, I found the book useful in my important role as a parent of an adolescent. The strategies tried have proved useful so far. The authors were outstanding with their examples to illustrate their points. All who read could identify. One example would be when Rick referred to a parent "letting go" with the visual of water skiing. If you don't let go of the rope when you fall, you can get hurt. As a parent it is often hard to let go of your child. As a teacher, we don't know all of the answers to raising children, especially in their teenage years. The authors provided a valuable resource for all parents to be successful during those adolescent stage.