This book is a guide for parents of teenagers. Why they act the way the do and how we as parents can understand and deal with the problems and issues our teenagers face.

“Where have you been and why did you lie to me and say you were going to the library when you never showed your face there?” Sound familiar? If you are a parent of a teenager it’s either happened or will happen soon. It’s all a part of raising a teenager. Do we as parents understand it? No, but this book can help you and your teenager both to better deal with situations like this.

This book is filled with issues that we as parents and our teenagers face. Things such as sex, suicide, school, lies, sneaking out, their beloved video games and much more are talked about in this book. I thought I knew the answers to these things, but found out I really didn’t have a clue. I spent more time yelling and crying than I did getting to the root of the problems. This book gave me a lot of ways to stop that type of behavior and resume a healthy and happy relationship with my teenager.

I really enjoyed the chapter called “What They Do and Why.” It really gave me some insight on why my teenager does things that make no sense to me. I finally began to see how teenagers and their lives have changed since I was a teenager and why it was so hard for me to grasp it. I read something in that chapter weekly to help me remain confident and keep calm during these trying times with a teen.

Raising a teenager in this day and age is not easy for any of us. We expect a lot from our children and put some pretty high expectations on them and they retaliate. It’s just how it is today. With this book I have learned to lower some of those expectations and realize I can enjoy my role as the parent of a teenager.