Surviving your child's adolescence [electronic resource] : how to understand, and even enjoy, the rocky road to independence / Carl Pickhardt.

Preparing for the inevitable -- A road map to early and mid-adolescence -- A road map to late adolescence and trial independence -- Parenting adolescent sons and daughters -- The complexities of spoken communication -- The use and abuse of conflict -- Discipline that does and doesn?t work -- Informal and formal education -- Problems with peers -- The power of parents.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.