How to Talk to Your Teen About Anything

How to Talk To Your Teen about Anything should be required reading for every parent of teens today! This book serves as a guide for calm communication and offers simple methods for meeting your teen where they are, while simultaneously learning more about our own human experience. It has been said that our children are our best teachers, and the tools in this book will ensure that we rise to the top of the class! --Bernadette Noll, author of Slow Family Living In How to Talk to Your Teen About Anything, Katie Malinski gives parents a practical, approachable, and concise guide that can help them understand and communicate more effectively with their teen about important (and often challenging) issues. Ms. Malinski uses a mix of digestible education, real-life scenarios, and useful exercises as she brings insightful concepts to life and provides parents the opportunity to practice new skills. Parents will walk away from this book with new insight and wisdom about themselves, their teen, and their relationship. Reading it can help you to remain deeply connected to your teen. --Vaughn L. Mankey, MD, child/adolescent/adult psychiatrist, former faculty at Harvard Medical School Katie is the parenting coach we all want on speed dial: warm, wise, down-to-earth, seasoned, practical, accessible, and balanced in her approach. Her new book, How to Talk to Your Teen About Anything, is a gem and should be on every parent's bedside table. Her real-life scenarios and highly-effective tools empower me to not feel so alone on this challenging journey! This is my new go-to gift for my friends who are parenting teens. Bravo Katie, we all need this new treasure. --Renee Peterson Trudeau, coach/speaker and author of Nurturing the Soul of Your Family: 10 Ways to Find Peace & Harmony in Everyday Life, www.ReneeTrudeau.com This book offers everything parents of teens need right now--deep compassion, clear guidance, effective tools, and maybe most importantly, real-life examples of how to talk with your teens about anything. It's a treasure trove of practical wisdom with heart, soul, and just the right amount of science to back it up. I wish this could be required reading for all parents of adolescents. --Carrie Contey, PhD, human development specialist