Teenage Parenting

Whether your family is like the Walton's, the Simpson's or the Bundy's, orwhether you're living in the thirteen hundreds, the eighteen hundreds orthe twenty-first century, it's never easy raising a family. Each and every one of us though will have something in common with themythical characters and our counterparts of yesteryear. We all havechildren, and we will all ultimately need to deal with the fact that thesechildren will grow up.
To go from baby to toddler to mature adult though, there's one stage theywill definitely need to go through regardless of anything else, and that'sadolescence. Or in other words, the teenage years. Dun-da-DAH! This iswhen you're supposed to hear the music from the movie "Psycho" echoingin your head. No, I'm just joking, teenagers aren't that bad, and most of it is in truthmainly a lot of media misdirection.
The anguished teenager, the rebelliousteenager, the bookworm, the go getter, the jock, the cheerleader, the nerd, the mixed up one who's not popular but has the potential.the list goes ispractically endless, and if you look hard enough you'll always find a teenagerthat will suit one of these stereotypes. If you look harder still though, you'll see that some facet of theirpersonalities will fit each and every one of these stereotypes.
So what doyou then? Raising a teen is hard enough, if you don't know what mold theyfit into how can you proceed any further?That's easy really. You're their parent and only you can know what they'retruly like. What they become and how they perceive the world and findtheir place in it though is a matter for the two of you to decide, throughthis journey of parenthood and "teenagehood", together. And that's what this book is all about, the joys and pitfalls of parenting ateenager.
One more thing though before you go on to read this book. Onething that I believe in with all my being, is that you need goodcommunication between you and your teen for your relationship to work. Without this everything else will just fall by the wayside. And because ofthis belief that I have, you'll find that most of this book is littered withreferences for you to just "sit down and talk" with you teen.