For Parents and Teenagers
Dissolving the Barrier Between You and Your Teen
Chapter One
When You Stop Controlling,
You Gain Control
Even though it doesn't seem this way to you, it is no more difficult to get along with your teenager now than it was when he or she was younger. Why you can't is the result of how you are both choosing to behave. He's behaving differently because he's older and feeling his oats. His challenging behavior is normal.
Unfortunately, your choice to do what parents have done
for generations when challenged by a teen, your retaliatory or controlling behavior, is normal, too. What I will explain in this book is what I believe you were already sensing before you started reading. What you are doing or thinking about doing hasn't worked in the past, it isn't working now, and it won't work in the future. Still, you keep choosing to do it. You could record your last argument and when the next one starts, say, "Why don't I just play the tape of our last row. It'll save us time and energy and the result will be the same."
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