Parenting Your Teens with T.L.C.PARENTING YOUR TEENS WITH T.L.C. By Part and Steve Sasa (Sorin, 2006) "Not another parenting book!" said my 17-year-old when he saw me reading Patt and Steve Saso's Parenting Your Teens with T.L.C. If he had skimmed skim v. skimmed, skim·ming, skims v.tr. 1. a. To remove floating matter from (a liquid). b. To remove (floating matter) from a liquid. c. a few pages, he might have cut the Sasos some slack. I mean, they actually let their daughter get her belly button belly button Medtalk Umbilicus, navel pierced pierced adj. 1. Cut through with a sharp instrument; perforated. 2. Of or relating to a body part that has been perforated for the purpose of attaching a piece of jewelry. 3. . My son's protestations aside, I suspect I'm not alone in consulting parenting books primarily when I am completely at my wits' end. One primary function of books in these moments is to reassure the anxious parent that yes, the child's obnoxious behavior at this stage is completely normal and that no, overall you aren't a complete parental flop FLOP - 1. An early system on the IBM 701. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. . On the reassurance scorecard, the Saso book earns high marks. They seem like such nice, wise people, yet they still raised a teen who refused to speak to his parents on Christmas and for weeks afterward af·ter·ward also af·ter·wards adv. At a later time; subsequently. Adv. 1. afterward - happening at a time subsequent to a reference time; "he apologized subsequently"; "he's going to the store but he'll be back here because he didn't find the cell phone he wanted under the tree. They took their boys to Hawaii on a dream vacation only to receive stony ston·y also ston·ey adj. ston·i·er, ston·i·est 1. Covered with or full of stones: a stony beach. 2. Resembling stone, as in hardness. 3. a. looks and complaints for an entire evening because they "made" them to go to a luau. Such tales warm the heart of any parent of a teen. The "T.L.C." of the book title refers not to "tender, loving care" but to "time, limits, and caring"--tools the Sasos recommend for surviving a child's passage to adulthood. They are strong on how to really listen to your kid instead of rehearsing comeback lines; how and why to discipline instead of punish; and how to reduce conflict (which is mostly initiated by parents). There's straight talk on cars, sex, alcohol, and drugs. They advise parents how to deal with disrespect, and how to be good parenting partners instead of letting the teen split them up. But the book would be worth buying if only for "Eight Things Parents Will Never Say to Their Teens," dreamed up by the Saso kids. "Not enough of your boxers are showing; your pants need to hang lower" was my favorite My Favorite is an independent synthpop band from Long Island, New York. They released two CDs: Love at Absolute Zero and Happiest Days of Our Lives. My Favorite broke up on September 14, 2005, when singer Andrea Vaughn left the band. . |
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