A Handbook and Guide to Parenting Teens Even when your relationship appears hopelessly beyond repair, you can follow the tips in this book and rebuild a loving bond. Learn healthy parenting habits. While there are a lot of highs to parenting, there are plenty of challenges, particularly when it comes to teens. While we were all teenagers once, we often can’t understand what our own teens are going through. But there are certain habits you can pick up that can make the teen years easier for both you and your child. Dealing with the changes. Just because your relationship with your teen looks different doesn’t mean it’s any less meaningful. The shifts that come may seem unwelcome at first, but as you learn to adapt and respond in a way that connects with your teen rather than pushes them further away, the changes are easier to work through. Recognizing that you’re growing and learning as you go, it’s important to understand boundaries with teens, and give them the space to do their own growing. Love them through it. Author and licensed clinical social worker Judy Ford offers honest and valuable advice to parents who feel depleted and desolate when it comes to their relationship with their teen. With gentle wisdom and a healthy dose of good humor, Ford guides parents and teenagers through one of the most difficult times in parenting. Learn how to shift the focus from the hardships and the mishaps to the joys and heartfelt moments. Read this book by bestselling author, mother, and inspirational role model Judy Ford and discover... Easy-to-follow advice for parents presented in 60 two-page essays Powerful and poignant examples from true life stories A how-to guide for loving your teens, even when it seems impossible Readers of other parenting books such as Parenting Teens with Love and Logic, Grown and Flown, Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety, and The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers will find a further source of wisdom in Wonderful Ways to Love a Teen.
In this book you’ll discover guides to: • Loving yourself and allowing your child to love themselves • Giving the gift of your presence and being open to the miracle of transformation • Saying yes as often as possible, and knowing ...
Wonderful Ways to Love a Teen
Parenting expert Judy Ford gives practical tips for developing your identity as a grandparent and for ways to complement and not conflict with parents. A must-have for all grandparents! Featuring a foreword by Sue Patton Thoele
It offers more than 65 inspiring true stories for building strong, nurturing and caring families. From the emotional to the moral to the fun and frivolous, author Judy Ford helps bring more love and laughter into the listener's life.
Wonderful Ways to Be a Family gives you Ford’s tried and true approach to what it means to be a family. Inspirational messages coupled with expert advice creates the ultimate parenting guide.
In their practical and supportive book, Judy Ford and Anna Chase offer a helping hand and show how to transform a seemingly impossible situation into a relationship filled with love.
In a book full of tiny tales of lovers' quarrels, heartaches and triumphs, a nationally recognized family counselor gives readers snapshots of the loving nuances that transform differences into common bonds.
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The practical applications in How to Really Love Your Child have already helped over 2 million parents around the world show love to their children in a way that can be received and returned, again and again.
The skills you learn in this book will help you: • Communicate unconditional love • Handle teenage anger … and your own • Deal with adolescent depression • Establish loving communication even when your teen shuts down • Help ...