Parent-Teen Breakthrough: The Relationship Approach

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Summary: Parent/Teen Breakthrough
Review: During my son's eighth grade year I struggled constantly with conflicting ideas about how to control and moderate his behaviour. None worked and my husband and I spent many hours arguing and I spent many hours on the carpet at the school for various infractions. Completely seredipitously this book landed in my hands. I don't read self-help books and books of that ilk but after perusing the first chapter I thought "Yes, this sounds right." I have adopted the basic philosphy in all my dealings with my son. Despite my husbands claims that it is merely the easy way out (avoiding confrontation and bright lines), it is in fact a great challenge to stand up to the almost relentless advise that comes in on childrearing from all sides. It is not easy to say this is what I believe and I will stick with it understanding what you say about dire consequences. I often feel all alone and this book is a huge, absolutely huge, comfort to me.

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Summary: A Blessing
Review: During my son's eighth grade year I struggled constantly with conflicting ideas about how to control and moderate his behaviour. None worked and my husband and I spent many hours arguing and I spent many hours on the carpet at the school for various infractions. Completely seredipitously this book landed in my hands. I don't read self-help books and books of that ilk but after perusing the first chapter I thought "Yes, this sounds right." I have adopted the basic philosphy in all my dealings with my son. Despite my husbands claims that it is merely the easy way out (avoiding confrontation and bright lines), it is in fact a great challenge to stand up to the almost relentless advise that comes in on childrearing from all sides. It is not easy to say this is what I believe and I will stick with it understanding what you say about dire consequences. I often feel all alone and this book is a huge, absolutely huge, comfort to me.

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Summary: Parent/ Teen Breakthrough The relationships Approach
Review: Everyone understand that happy, confident, well- balanced Teen's do not just happen. This is why I feel that parent ought to read Parent/ Teen Breakthrough The relationships Approach. Everyone knows that being a parnet is life toughest job, but thanks to Mira Kirshenbaum and Charles Foster, Ph.D. has built a road map for parent to have a better understanding of thier child emotions needs and how to deal with them effectively. This book also show parents how to help children develop a healthy self image and understand thier own emotional. This book is very insightful and easy to read and easy to understand.

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Summary: Parent/Teen Breakthrough
Review: Excellent book for parents with preteens and teens. It is full of very compelling examples of behaviors that can be expected if a solid relationship between the parent and child has not been established. The crux of the problem is often the parent. We are comfortable controlling our children (it works) when they are smaller and we're quite surprised when they begin to mature and really need us to be a best friend. The book does not preach, but clarifies the value of building a new relationship. Perfectly appropriate for people of any religious faith. It is a gift that I give to parents very often.

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Summary: A TRUE GODSEND
Review: I am so thankful for this book; I had to take periodic breaks because I wanted to cry in deep relief as I read it. I suffered through my daughter's teens immeasurably to the point that I had to kick her out of the house (something I was sure would never happen to me, Ms. Supermom). She is 21 now and we not only survived our crisis but miraculously transcended it. My daughter kept telling me that IT WAS NOT MY FAULT, THAT THERE WAS NOTHING I COULD DO, THAT SHE WAS GOING TO DO WHAT SHE WAS GOING TO DO NO MATTER WHAT I DID (I tried various counselors, a psychiatrist, police intervention, moving, you name it)BUT I THOUGHT I WAS TOUGHER AND SMARTER THAN SHE WAS... Today she assures me that I WAS/AM A GREAT MOM, THAT SHE IS SO THANKFUL FOR ME, and that she is so sorry for what she put me through. She cautions that I don't make the same mistake with her younger TEEN brother by thinking that I AM TOTALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR WHO HE IS AND WHO HE TURNS OUT TO BE, because as this wonderful book stresses: I AM NOT. MY LOVE AND EXAMPLE are their guiding light, not my demands and threats. Thank you, thank you Mira and Charles. I was so afraid of facing my son's upcoming teen years (he just turned 14 a few days ago and has already dyed his hair blue) but as I read your book I am reminded that "it's going to be OK, they are going to be OK, WE are going to be OK".

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Summary: changed my relationship with my 2 teens for the better
Review: I found this book browsing in a store. I have been referring to it for over a year now and it has changed my relationship with my 15 and 16 year old. There are no more fights over the little things in life, no more nagging. Just deep concern for my children and the time we have together. When I tell my friends of the theories in this book they think I am avoiding dealing with teen age conflicts, but they will admit to arguing a lot in their homes. Sometimes I think it's a gamble to practice this method, what if at the end of the teen years it was not the way to parent? But the results now are so incredibly rewarding, it almost imossible to think it is not the best way to go.

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Summary: changed my relationship with my 2 teens for the better
Review: I found this book browsing in a store. I have been referring to it for over a year now and it has changed my relationship with my 15 and 16 year old. There are no more fights over the little things in life, no more nagging. Just deep concern for my children and the time we have together. When I tell my friends of the theories in this book they think I am avoiding dealing with teen age conflicts, but they will admit to arguing a lot in their homes. Sometimes I think it's a gamble to practice this method, what if at the end of the teen years it was not the way to parent? But the results now are so incredibly rewarding, it almost imossible to think it is not the best way to go.

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Summary: A parenting classic.
Review: P/TB has become a classic for parents who are tired of seeing how battling for control is completely ineffective and poisons the family atmosphere. P/TB contains the secrets of parents who are successful at getting their teens to listen to them and are privileged to know what's going on in their teens' lives. It won a Parent's Choice Best Parenting Book Award. Please e-mail us stories of how things that happened to you when you were a teen affected you and your life as an adult. This will be a big help for our next project.

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Summary: My daughter and I are best friends.
Review: Wonderful! No pushy theories that don't make sense, no religious intonations, just plain, simple, understandable reality. "Parent Teen Breakthrough" not only showed me what to do, but how. And so much is so simple. In just over a month, I have seen triumphs almost daily - and not just with my teenager, but with my two younger children as well.. Ever wonder how you are supposed to accomplish whatever it is you are supposed to do or just how you are supposed to act as a parent? I have been a single mom for most of my children't lives and it has been difficult, at best. Though I have always tried to give them my best, there was something missing. My adolescent daughter was slipping from my grasp. The harder I tried, the further away she ran until, a few short months ago she tried suicide. I was devestated. But with a little help, we have made so much progress since then and this book gave me the insight and wisdom I needed to make it happen. I learned that I really am a great parent. All I need is a little shaping, a little change here and there. The closeness I am sharing with all of my children is the greatest reward I could ever have asked for in the world and I have "Parent Teen Breakthrough" to thank for showing me how.

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Summary: My daughter and I are best friends.
Review: Wonderful! No pushy theories that don't make sense, no religious intonations, just plain, simple, understandable reality. "Parent Teen Breakthrough" not only showed me what to do, but how. And so much is so simple. In just over a month, I have seen triumphs almost daily - and not just with my teenager, but with my two younger children as well.. Ever wonder how you are supposed to accomplish whatever it is you are supposed to do or just how you are supposed to act as a parent? I have been a single mom for most of my children't lives and it has been difficult, at best. Though I have always tried to give them my best, there was something missing. My adolescent daughter was slipping from my grasp. The harder I tried, the further away she ran until, a few short months ago she tried suicide. I was devestated. But with a little help, we have made so much progress since then and this book gave me the insight and wisdom I needed to make it happen. I learned that I really am a great parent. All I need is a little shaping, a little change here and there. The closeness I am sharing with all of my children is the greatest reward I could ever have asked for in the world and I have "Parent Teen Breakthrough" to thank for showing me how.