A practical guide to solving everyday problems. Stop throwing up your hands, pulling out your hair and counting to ten... read this book first and learn how to call a permanent truce with your teen! Are you at your wit's end trying to deal with your teenager? Unsure of how to handle those tough problems that so often become a battleground? Help is here in this refreshing, practical guide that offers workable advice. Advocating firm discipline coupled with caring, noted psychotherapist Dr. Don Fleming presents explicit, step-by-step directions-- complete with sample dialogue-- for handling those issues that leave you pulling out your hair. Areas covered include curfews, parties, sex, telephone use, choice of friends, homework, chores, money, lying, stealing, drugs and alcohol, disrespectful speech and behavior, and much, much more. - from Amzon