The Available Parent: Radical Optimism for Raising Teens and Tweens

Paperback: 252 pages
Publisher: Viva Editions (May 10, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1573446572
ISBN-13: 978-1573446570

Teenagers are left feeling unheard and misunderstood, and parents are left feeling bewildered by the changes in their child at adolescence and their sudden lack of effectiveness as parents. The parent has become unavailable, the teen responds in kind, and a negative, often destructive cycle of communication begins. Well, the truth of the matter is, you can physically be right next to someone and still not really be available to them. If you need them to be something they’re not, if you are harsh, criticizing and judging, if your anxiety is center stage, then you are not truly available.

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