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Top 6 Must-Have Books for Parents: Talking to Teens About Tough Issues

From Denise Witmer,
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When issues get tough, talking with your teenager is difficult. Use these books to help you get through these tough talks.

1. The Teen Code: How to Talk to Them about Sex, Drugs, and Everything Else

Product Description: In the first book to ever take us inside the teen mind to help us understand these topics their point of view, parents will discover how to establish an environment of honesty and open dialogue in their homes so they can better guide their kids through the rocky road of adolescence.
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2. How to Talk to Teens About Really Important Things

Product Description: Advice for adults hoping to talk with teenagers on such sometimes difficult subjects as depression, ethics, prejudice, sexuality, and violence.
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3. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk

Product Description: There is a way to bridge the generation gap, say child experts Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, and the methods they describe in this book have been used by many parents. They teach communication and discipline without alienating kids and aggravating the problem.
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4. How to Say It to Teens

Including self tests that will help parents assess their own communication skills, How to Say It to Teens is of critical importance to ensuring family harmony, the parental sanity, and the emotional and physical well-being of teens.
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5. Getting Through to Your Kids

Product Description: Experts from the fields of psychology, medicine, and education offer advice to parents on how to communicate clearly and effectively with their children. Readers will learn how to talk to children about such sometimes difficult subjects as death, drug use and abuse, self-esteem, and sex.
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6. Xtreme Talk: Real Answers to the Issues Teens Face

Straight talk can be found in this book for parents.
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