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For Parents and Teenagers: Dissolving the Barrier Between You and Your Teen

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William Glasser's book provides valuable insight into the dynamics of parent-teen relationships, and he offers a jargon-free approach that focuses on building the relationship. Glasser offers no magic formula, but parents reading this book will gain a better understanding of their teenager, and, more importantly, begin to understand why the things they are doing now aren't working, and what they might be able to do instead. When neither permissive parenting nor "tough love" have worked (they seldom do, in the long run), this book offers a third way. After reading it, the approach just makes so much sense: at its core is a fundamental approach to all positive relationships, in fact.

When I took a dog training class I was told that it was "I" who needed to change and if I did so properly, the dog would behave as I wanted. Well, Glasser's book basically says the same thing and it's true!

This book was recommended by a counselor and we highly recommend reading it as it helps you think about things differently, not only with your teen but others. Glasser is now a favorite author of ours.

As a Parent Effectiveness Training instructor, I find this book to support and add to my understanding of the parent/child dynamic. Like Thomas Gordon, William Glasser explains how we destroy relationships with our words. Because I have come to understand the damage done to children through the traditional and ill-advised drive for parental control at all costs, Dr Glasser's work is particularly helpful in furthering my undersatanding for helping parents escape from this destructive way of thinking.