Description
| Product ID: | 9780071545891 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | How to Hug a Porcupine: Negotiating the Prickly Points of the Tween Years |
| Authors: | Author: Julie Ross |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Parenting: advice and issues, Advice on parenting |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Shows parents how to talk to their kids about peer pressure, raging hormones, mood swings, body image, computer "addiction," sibling rivalry, and other prickly issues. This book offers techniques, which help you shift from a "controlling" to a "relationship" approach - proving that it is possible to hug a porcupine, once you know how. “You never listen to anything I say!” Yesterday, your child was a sweet, well-adjusted eight-year-old. Today, a moody, disrespectful twelve-year-old. What happened? And more important, how do you handle it? How you respond to these whirlwind changes will not only affect your child''s behavior now but will determine how he or she turns out later. Julie A. Ross, executive director of Parenting Horizons, shows you exactly what''s going on with your child and provides all the tools you need to correctly handle even the prickliest tween porcupine.
"This excellent book lets parents peek into the underlying, confusing thoughts and perplexing decisions that young tweens are constantly facing." |
| Imprint Name: | McGraw-Hill Contemporary |
| Publisher Name: | McGraw-Hill Education - Europe |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-08-16 |
