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Seven Tips for Parenting Teen Boys: 'Nagging Them Is Like Shouting into a Void'

By Maggie Dent — 2020

Adolescence is the perfect storm for relationships between teen boys and their parents, but they are more vulnerable than they seem.

Read on www.theguardian.com

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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (25th Anniversary Edition)

In 1994, Reviving Ophelia was published, and it shone a much-needed spotlight on the problems faced by adolescent girls. The book became iconic and helped to reframe the national conversation about what author Mary Pipher called “a girl-poisoning culture” surrounding adolescents.

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Mary Pipher, Sara Pipher Gilliam
2019
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10 Days to a Less Defiant Child: The Breakthrough Program for Overcoming Your Child’s Difficult Behavior (Second Edition)

Occasional clashes between parents and children are not uncommon, but when defiant behavior-including tantrums, resistance to chores, and negativity-becomes chronic, it causes big problems within the family. In 10 Days to a Less Defiant Child, family and child psychologist Dr.

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Jeffrey Bernstein
2025
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Masterminds and Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World

A landmark book that reveals the way boys think and that shows parents, educators and coaches how to reach out and help boys overcome their most common and difficult challenges—by the bestselling author who changed our conception of adolescent girls.

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Rosalind Wiseman
2025
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The Uncontrollable Child: Understand and Manage Your Child’s Disruptive Moods with Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills

Is your child extremely irritable most of the time? Do they have difficulty interpreting social cues? Are they impulsive and prone to outbursts or explosive rages? Parenting a child who has emotional dysregulation can be a bumpy ride.

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Matis Miller
2025
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Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

In this sane, highly engaging, and informed guide for parents of daughters, Dr.

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Lisa Damour
2025
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Raising Resilient Adolescents with Erica Komisar

In this class, psychoanalyst and author Erica Komisar discusses the science behind raising resilient adolescents, an age group that is facing more mental distress than ever. Ms.

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2022
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What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life

You’ve read all the expert advice, but despite countless efforts to help your child cope better and stay on track, you’re still struggling with everyday issues like homework, chores, getting to soccer practice on time, and simply getting along without pushback and power struggles.

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Sharon Saline
2018
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Grown and Flown

The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too.

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Lisa Heffernan, Mary Dell Harrington
2025
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How to Be a Better Mom to a Teenage Boy

I'm a mom myself and raising my teenage boys has been a wonderful journey. The secret is to connect with them and in this video, we're diving into that. Here are 3 tips to be a better mom to a teenage boy.

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2018
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The Myth of the Perfect Girl: Helping Our Daughters Find Authentic Success and Happiness in School and Life

In today’s achievement culture, many girls seem to be doing remarkably well—excelling in honors and sports and attending top colleges in ever greater numbers—but beneath the surface, girls are stressed out and stretched too thin as they strive to be “perfect.

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Ana Homayoun
2012
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