How to Hug a Porcupine

How to Hug a Porcupine Negotiating the Prickly Points of the Tween Years

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Publisher's Synopsis

"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.

  • Find out how other parents survived nightmarish tween behavior--and still raised great kids
  • Break the "nagging cycle," give your kids responsibilities, and get results
  • Talk about sex, drugs, and alcohol so your kid will listen
  • Discover the secret that will help your child to disregard peer pressure and make smart choices--for life

"This excellent book lets parents peek into the underlying, confusing thoughts and perplexing decisions that young tweens are constantly facing."
--Ralph I. López, M.D., Clinical Professor or Pediatrics, Cornell University, and author of The Teen Health Book

Book information

ISBN: 9780071545891
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Imprint: McGraw Hill
Pub date:
DEWEY: 649.124
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 210
Weight: 270g
Height: 224mm
Width: 153mm
Spine width: 15mm