Stop Negotiating with Your Teen: Strategies for Parenting Your Angry, Manipulative, Moody, or Depressed Adolescent

This book is fantastic. I have spent the last ten years learning how to raise a very, very difficult child/teen. Much of what I learned in expensive therapy and specialist programs is covered in Edgette's book - and more effectively than in any of the many, many other books I've read. Stop Negotiating with Your Teen is concise and easy to understand. Edgette has a thorough understanding of these kids and the challenges they present. She doesn't try and create a standardised perfect parent. Instead she offers a practical, common sense approach to parenting that empowers parents to parent as leaders. She also helps parents to help their difficult teen make better choices. Siblings and parents alike benefit from the ensuing changes. Everyone in the family wins.

I am working toward a M.A. Degree in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling. I am also a single parent with a teenage son. Dr. Edgette's book provides excellent insight for those of us with a permissive parenting style.

This may be the most sensible, wise, clear and reader friendly book about parenting adolescents that I have read. Clearly the author not only cares about kids, but also knows how to help parents get untangled from the conflict and confusion of trying to understand and guide today's teens. Written with genuineness and humor, I can't imagine any parent not finding themselves between the pages, laughing and learning and coming out with more clarity and a saner family life! I work in a school district and we have included multiple copies for our parent resource library -- an invaluable addition.

This book helps to FINALLY get the adult out of the same old cycles in fighting with their teen. I liked the fact that it does NOT encourage more manipulative behavior in order to regain control, but gets down to what's really going on. Parents - and teachers, too- can get invaluable guidance in restructuring conversations with their teens so that they mean something. I also like the fact that personal responsibilty and accountability is stressed, and placed where it belongs. The chapters on case histories were the most helpful to me, as they gave inventive- and sometimes funny-examples of how parents solved their long-time problems. Easy to read, and very engaging!

I have found Janet Sasson Edgette's book, 'Stop Negotiating With Your Teen....', to be an invaluable tool for the parents of my adolescent clients. This book, I believe, is a MUST for ALL parents as it outlines a meaningful, candid, and guenuine syle of commuication between parents and teens.Parents of younger children will also be afforded an opportunity to establish an empowering way of being/communicating with their children from the learnings available in this work. The strategies discussed throughout this volume can be easily absorbed and thus implmented effectively. A stimulating and quick read, I highly recommend 'Stop Negotiating With Your Teen...'