Making Sense of Your Teenager: Understanding Your Teenager's Changing Body, Mind and Spirit (Parent & Child) Book

The Fascinating, Frustrating,: and Confusing Evolution of Adolescence

As youngsters reach adolescence, they change both physically and emotionally. Overnight, a teenager becomes a mass of contradictionsan enigma to confound even the best of parents. Now Dr. Lawrence Kutner, the "Ask the Expert" columnist for Parents magazine, offers the latest advice on effectively handling the tumultuous teen years.

In MAKING SENSE OF YOUR TEENAGER, the final volume in Dr. Kutner's Parent & Child series, the author gives reasonable and practical advice to help parents navigate the rocky teen years. From puberty, dating, and appearance to eating disorders, depression and sexuality, Dr. Kutner emphasizes communication, limit-setting, and freedom of expression as the keys to a healthy parent-teen relationship.

FOLLOWING HIS GUIDANCE, PARENTS LEARN HOW TO HELP TEENS:

Cope with the changes of puberty
Respond to peer pressure
Avoid risky behaviors: alcohol, drugs, smoking and sex
Argue productively
Handle dating and their first breakup
Realize their college and career aspirations
and much more!

With Dr. Kutner's illuminating and sound insights, MAKING SENSE OF YOUR TEENAGER is the only guide parents need to help their teenage children grow into happy, well-adjusted young men and women.