Parenting Teenagers

The teenage years are often filled with conflict and a seemingly endless communication gulf. Parents sit by helplessly as their teen “doesn’t listen”, and makes one seemingly bad life choice after another – sometimes out of nothing more than spite.

While it’s frustrating, as a parent, you know something needs to change, as these poor teenage choices can possibly have lifelong consequences.

“Fitting the Pieces” is a new series of downloadable e-books that targets specific aspects of the teen / parent relationship. Aspects such as:

• Monitoring your teen’s behavior (without being intrusive)
• Letting your teen know you truly care
• Tough issues like cutting and self-injury, drugs and alcohol, gangs and “bad” friends, running away, sex identity issues, and more.

Effective Strategies for Helping You and Your Teen

Christina Botto, author of the popular Help Me With My Teenager! A Step-by-Step Guide for Parents that Works, offers another essential tool to parents who are serious about reaching their teens. A tool that targets specific behaviors and issues.

With each issue of Fitting the Pieces, Christina will help you look inside your teen's mind and gain perspective into their world, while giving you insight to the motivations behind their actions and behavior.

Uniquely, this series contains actual input from today’s teenagers. Issue #3, Troubled Teenagers – Identifying and Dealing with Tough Issues – also contains input from parents and survivors. Each new installment will be about a different topic and will give you effective strategies in dealing with a particular issue. You will be surprised to find out how much your teenager actually wants and needs your input, and how much your teen is willing to work on having a good relationship with you.

Stop guessing - don’t let your relationship with your teen suffer any longer. Find out how your teen thinks and feels, get answers to your questions, and improve the way you and your teenager interact!

Only $9.95 each, or $19.99 for all three.

Issue #1:

Showing Your Teen That You Care
When it comes to dealing with your teenager, what is your biggest concern?

If you are anything like the hundreds of parents who reached out to Christina Botto, your primary concern is probably how to show your teenager that you care.

It’s a good concern to have, because making your teenager actually believe that you truly care is absolutely essential to building a strong, supportive relationship with your teen. Of course, this is easier said than done – one of the most used phrases in parent / teen conflict is the age-old “you don’t care about me”. 

This e-book will show you how to end that, and help you let your teen know that, beyond any doubt, you do indeed care. More about Showing Your Teen that You Care...

Issue #2:

Monitoring Teenagers & Influencing Their Actions

In Monitoring Teenagers & Influencing Their Actions, Botto tackles the classic problem of monitoring your teen’s behavior and actions, while still having their trust. There’s a definite way to be a caring, involved parent, without making your teen angry, or worse, destroying the trust between you.

Teenage years are a very confusing and dangerous time; filled with temptation, curiosity, and the risk of getting involved in unhealthy habits. However, parents have the potential to protect their teen from making serious mistakes by monitoring their teenager and knowing when to step in and take action. More about Monitoring Teenagers and Influencing their Actions…

Issue #3:

Troubled Teenagers – Identifying and Dealing with Tough Issues

One of the most troubling things for a parent is discovering and/or dealing with a teen that gets involved with drugs, alcohol, gangs, or “cutting”, or even has sexual identity issues (experimentation or otherwise).

These circumstances not only require a special touch, but also need a deep level of understanding. Only by first knowing “why” can you truly tackle the problem head on, and work towards a solution.

In Troubled Teenagers – Identifying and Dealing with Tough Issues, Christina Botto dives into these issues in a straightforward manner, provides information from parents and survivors who've been there, and gives you the tools you need to truly “be there” for your teen, and help him or her cope with life’s biggest challenges. More about Troubled Teenagers – Identifying and Dealing with Tough Issues…