Slow Parenting Teens: How to Create a Positive, Respectful, and Fun Relationship with Your Teenager

Here’s some good news: If the relationship you have with your teen isn’t what you want, you can change it. You are the parent, and you’ve been designing and creating this relationship since the day your child showed up. However, you’re the one who must make the first move—by changing yourself. And this truly is good news because it’s much easier to change yourself than to mold another person. If you want a sustainable, respectful, and fun relationship with your teen, all you need is the willingness and motivation to change and persist in your efforts.Our current culture says the teenage years are trouble; that teens are moody, unpredictable, unreliable, disrespectful, and unconcerned about anyone but themselves. This is hardwired into their physiology, and parents should expect contentious relationships. Struggles, fighting, and frustration are the only options. Slow Parenting Teens provides a news flash to parents: If your relationship with your teen isn't what you want--YOU can change it. The five "slow" attitudes in this book will help you face your own fears and create a positive, respectful, and fun parenting relationship with your teenager.Authors Molly Wingate and Marti Woodward have accrued over 40 years of personal parenting experience, as well as five decades of professional work with adolescents and their families. Along with real life examples of fast and slow parenting, they discuss how to set limits and punishments, how to deal with blended families, and how to slow parent teens who already face big problems. No wonder Slow Parenting Teens is the parenting book recommended by teenagers! Slow Parenting Teens provides a news flash to parents: If your relationship with your teen isnt what you wantYOU can change it. The five slow attitudes in this book will help you face your own fears and create a positive, respectful, and fun parenting relationship with your teenager. Authors Molly Wingate and Marti Woodward have accrued over 40 years of personal parenting experience, as well as five decades of professional work with adolescents and their families. Along with real life examples of fast and slow parenting, they discuss how to set limits and punishments, how to deal with blended families, and how to slow parent teens who already face big problems. No wonder Slow Parenting Teens is the parenting book recommended by teenagers!