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Play The Real-Life Money Game With Your Teen
Books for parents of teens. Book Review: Play The Real-Life Money Game With Your Teen
Why Bad Grades Happen to Good Kids
Parenting Teens Book Review - Why Bad Grades Happen to Good Kids: What Parents Need to Know, What Parents Need to Do
Family First by Dr. Phil
Book Review by Denise D. Witmer of Dr. Phil's book, Family First.
College Life 102: The No-Bull Guide to a Great Freshman Year
Do you know what to expect when you start college? Let the wit and wisdom of College Life 102 open your eyes to the endless possibilities!
The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College
From sharing a bathroom with 40 strangers to sharing lecture notes, The Naked Roommate is your behind-the-scenes look at EVERYTHING you need to know about college (but never knew you needed to know).
Don't Sweat The Small Stuff For Teens
With 100 different chapters, each just a few pages in length, this little book works especially well as a bedside companion or tucked in a backpack for the morning commute to school.
Life Strategies for Teens
Whether you are a teen looking for a little help, or a parent or grandparent wanting to provide guidance, this book tackles the challenges of adolescence like no other.
Teens Can Make It Happen Nine Steps for Success
Graham bridges the gap between education and the real world, and provides teenagers with the means to boost self-esteem, avoid peer pressure, and handle the daily stresses that come with being a young adult.
Parenting Well in a Media Age: Keeping Our Kids Human
Moving beyond demonizing the media, this work, like none before it, articulates the difficulties of parenting in our depersonalized society. It offers hopeful alternatives for all parents wanting to protect children from, and teach children about, media's impact.
Organizing from the Inside Out for Teenagers
In an increasingly busy world, its not just adults who need help getting their lives in order. As teenagers face unprecedented pressures, they find themselves struggling to balance schoolwork, friends, extracurricular activies, and time.
Life Lists for Teens
Any teen who has ever made a list will enjoy this book—as an inviting, enlightening read, a place to go for quick advice, and a ready source of guidance and encouragement for all kinds of situations. These are lists that matter, and teens will use them every day.
Myspace Safety: 51 Tips for Teens And Parents
Book review for Myspace Safety 51 Tips for Teens And Parents
Raising a Thinking Preteen The I Can Problem Solve Program for 8 to 12 Year-Olds
Raising a Thinking Preteen : The "I Can Problem Solve" Program for 8- to 12- Year-Olds
Systematic Training for Effective Parenting of Teens
Book review of Systematic Training for Effective Parenting of Teens
101 Ways to Help Your Daughter Love Her Body
Book Review: 101 Ways to Help Your Daughter Love Her Body
Parenting at the Speed of Teens - Positive Tips on Everyday Issues
Book Review: Parenting at the Speed of Teens - Positive Tips on Everyday Issues
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens - The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
Asking About Sex and Growing Up: A Question-and-Answer Book for Boys and Girls
Asking About Sex and Growing Up A Question-and-Answer Book for Boys and Girls
What's Going on Down There? Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask
Book Review What's Going on Down There Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask
How to Win at College : Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students
Book Review: How to Win at College : Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students
Don't Sweat The Small Stuff For Teens
Don't Sweat The Small Stuff For Teens
Seven Steps to Homework Success: A Family Guide for Solving Common Homework Problems
Book review: Seven Steps to Homework Success: A Family Guide for Solving Common Homework Problems
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
This book, which is part of the hugely popular Chicken Soup for the Soul series, contains stories, poems and cartoons relating to the specific troubles that traumatize teenagers everywhere.
Don't Sweat The Small Stuff For Teens
This book, by Richard Carlson Ph.D., is divided into more than 100 short and to the point topics, such as: "Drop the Drama", "Check Out these Odds! (The Likelihood that Everyone Will Like You)", "Understand the Law of Focus" and "Be Creative in Your Rebellion".
Life Strategies for Teens
By Jay McGraw, son of bestselling author Phillip C. McGraw, with a younger, hipper version of his father's Life Strategies.
Majoring in the Rest of Your Life
Author Carol Carter, vice president and publisher of Student Success and Career Development at Prentice Hall, has put forth a extensive and practical guide for students entering their college years through the time when they land their first job.
Student Athlete's Guide to College
Hilary Abramson's comprehensive guide is for any high school athlete looking to attend college.
Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps for Success
In this book, Stedman Graham, defines success as a process and then will take your teenager through the steps of that process and lead them to their own, self-defined successes.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
Sean Covey, son of the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, promises to make this book an adventure for your teenager ~ and he succeeds!
What Your Kids Are Up To and In For
Through his survey, which is the basis for this book, Bill Sanders gives parents enormous insight into the lives our teens live at school.

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