Parenting Teens

Why do teenagers stay up late and struggle to get up in the morning? Do teenagers really take more risks? What is happening with teenagers' hormones? The Psychology of the Teenage Brain offers all those involved in teenagers' lives insight into what's happening in their brains and how understanding them can improve relationships and communication at this crucial stage. It explains key topics, including the way the brain changes during adolescence, the role of hormones, and what we really know about risk and resilience, sleep, and peer pressure.

With All Due Respect is a handbook for parents navigating the difficulties of the tween and teen years. Roesner and Hitchcock help parents identify what successful relationships look like and give easy-to-follow lessons in enforcing rules, communicating lovingly, resetting relationships, overcoming fears and exhaustion, and handling rebellion. Each day features a story every mom can relate to, down-to-earth questions to think about, and a prayer to launch an action plan.

The Parenting Machine reveals the keys to transforming your relationship with your adolescent children. Teenagers are a maze of emotions, and many parents are throwing up their arms wondering what happened to their sweet, obedient child. Taking it back to the basics, mother and educator Katie M. Wirig demonstrates how to implement tried and true principles that will ensure results.

Creativity is a gift shared by all, yet most of us have been led to believe that if we are not starving artists, musicians, or writers, then creative thinking is not something we are capable of. This just isn't true and to prove it I've brought together some of the best methods to trigger and retain that creative spark within.

Ciberacoso, sexting, alcohol, drogas, embarazos no deseados, acoso y fracaso escolar, homofobia, trastornos alimenticios… son algunas de las principales preocupaciones que quitan el sueño a cualquier padre en la actualidad. Sin embargo, estas situaciones o comportamientos pueden evitarse si educamos de forma preventiva a los hijos desde una edad muy temprana.

Parents who listen to this book will learn how to help their children deal with frustration, make decisions, and become confident, self-sufficient adults.

Helping Your Teenager Deal with Stress recognizes that you as a parent are undergoing a great deal of stress yourself and emphasizes that you don't need to be perfect to help your child. With anecdotes that show how other parents deal with problems, with practical exercises for you and your child, and with lists of organizations to contact and additional materials to read, this audiobook is a realistic and reassuring guide to helping your adolescent - and you - through the turbulent teenage years.

Teens are at a very difficult age when they are trying to jump, perhaps too quickly, from childhood to adulthood. Thus, they are looking to find their own identity. At the same time, they are living with changes which are happening to their bodies, while also trying to come to terms with how relationships work. It's no wonder there is such a great deal of confusion for both teens and parents. This book was written as a guide to parents to bring better understanding to boundaries: when to set them and when to allow your teen freedom to grow and explore.

Peel back the cheerful façade that parents present, and you'll find that many are worried about their teens. Mood swings, impulsiveness, poor judgment, and other problems peak in these years. Add stressors such as screen addiction, cyberbullying, increasing academic demands, and time-consuming athletic commitments...and it's no surprise that today's teenagers rank as the most anxious in 50 years.

Parenting just got tougher. As the teenage brain rewires, hormones surge, and independence beckons, a perfect storm for family conflict emerges. But help is at hand. This uniquely practical parenting audiobook for raising teenagers in today's world is grounded in evidence-based psychology, exploring the science at work during this period of child development and showing how your behavior and response as a parent has never been more important.

It's no secret that addictive digital technologies like smart phones and social media apps are harming a generation of kids socially, mentally, and even physically. But a workable solution to this harm seems elusive: after all, don't kids need phones, and won't they be socially isolated without them? Clare Morell, fellow and director of the Technology and Human Flourishing Project of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, argues that the answer is no. The approach we’ve taken up to now hasn’t worked; but that there is another way.

Are you overwhelmed by schoolwork, social media pressures, or life in general? Do you sometimes struggle with body image, self-esteem, or balancing all your responsibilities? "Self-Care Superpower" is designed for teen girls like you, aged 13 to 19, navigating the exciting yet often stressful teenage years. This book focuses on ALL key aspects of life and self-care and includes 101 bonus tips to master essential life skills. Strengthen Relationships

This book is your unofficial guide to navigating those tricky transitions. While your school and parents have armed you with the basics, there's a boatload of critical life skills that they might not cover—skills that are absolutely crucial for thriving in today's complex world. That's where "Teenage Girl to Super Woman" swoops in. Consider this your handbook for all the things that come after learning how to drive or picking a college major. It's about handling your digital life, understanding your emotions, and making decisions that reflect who you are and who you aspire to be.

Transform your life with this essential guide and empathetic companion. It makes your parenting journey easy and enjoyable while enabling your tween to thrive in middle school and life.

Prepare your teen with Smart Money Lessons for Teens. This guide empowers 13- and 14-year-olds with financial skills. It's ideal for teaching teens to manage money and make smart financial decisions.

This audiobook for teenagers and children is about understanding parents and unhealthy lifestyles during and after a parent’s drug or alcohol dependency and abuse. Children of alcoholic or addicted parents often have difficulty understanding what is happening to their parent. The story goes through the life of Alex whose father suffers from the disease of addiction and dependency on drugs or alcohol. It explores how Alex thinks, feels, and acts to his father’s dependency and how family separation may occur at times.

Ways to Help Your Lonely Teen is a direct response to the U.S. Surgeon General’s 2023 Advisory on loneliness, to help parents know how to combat loneliness in young people and foster well-being to prevent mental health problems down the road. Dr. Beresin elaborates on each Surgeon General recommendation for parents with actionable, practical advice to help families embrace these recommendations in everyday life.

This new Christian book series gives you the most powerful Bible verses and Scripture for raising our kids today in this most challenging environment. To understand how to best raise our children, we must first understand how God raises us. After all we are called "children of God". So we must master this mindset first, to be best prepared to raise our own children. Raising our children property can be a blessing that lasts a lifetime.

Believe it or not, your kids WANT to talk to you about the social and health challenges they’re facing. But are you ready? Jessica Peck, a pediatric nurse practitioner and mom of four, helps parents escape the secrecy and shame surrounding tough conversations and approach them from a Christian foundation. Covering topics including mental health, social media, suicide, sexting, gender identity, substance abuse (with a chapter focusing on vaping), and more, Jessica Peck's book will encourage and strengthen all parents.

As parents of young children anticipate the teen years, counselor Kristen Hatton helps them lay the groundwork so that having honest conversations, setting reasonable limits, and exploring issues of the heart will prepare them and their children for the next stage. Hatton helps moms and dads make the connection between their current parenting and future outcomes. By evaluating their parenting, they will see where their own fears, desires, and insecurities lie and how to pivot to practices of faith and trust in God.