35 Things Your Teen Won't Tell You, So I Will

by Ellen Pober Rittberg

Overview

Any parent of a teenager who would like pragmatic tips on how to build a positive relationship with their child should read this book. Parents of teens know that in today’s environment, being a good parent is a greater challenge than ever. In 35 Things Your Teen Won’t Tell You So I Will, Ellen Pober Rittberg offers insight on how to connect, react, instill responsibility, and even discpline your teen to help foster a positive parent-child relationship. Some of her advice includes: If you haven’t seen Risky Business you should; subsidize your teen at your own peril; to buy a car or not buy a car, that is the question; the importance of punching the clock; and beer and hard liquor: the unseen enemy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596529540
Publisher:	Turner Publishing Company
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Series:	Good Things to Know
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	158
File size:	145 KB

About the Author

Ellen Pober Rittberg is a award-winning parenting writer, public speaker, attorney and mother of three very closely spaced now-grown children. For 13 years she represented hundreds of children and teens in court in virtually all aspects of their lives. While she can't say she has seen it all, she saw and experienced a great deal of things close up which others didn't or haven't yet and which are the basis of her philosophy and book. A humor writer -- one of her children, Matt Ritter, is now a stand-up comic and comedy writer -- Ms. Rittberg wanted to help parents laugh and deal during this sometimes very trying time (for example, she tells what to do when your children throw a party even though you've made all kinds of plans to prevent it, and how to deal with the aftermath and how to make certain it doesn't happen again.) In short, this book is the one she wishes she had, containing all the tricks of the trade through 35 side splitting but on the money rules. For several years, she hosted and produced a live cable television show, "The Changing Family."

Editorial Reviews

Everyone has their own methods of parenting, but author Ellen Pober Rittberg's unorthodox; outside-the-box methods are soothing to the war-torn souls of adults caught in the onslaught of adolescence. After all, laughter is the best medicine, right? Ellen isn't afraid to broach topics that other parenting books may avoid, such as "If your teen doesn't let you know their whereabouts, hunt them down!" or "Use that important tool in your arsenal: disappointment and disapproval." All written with a certain flair of humorous affectation. Her voice is strong, sentimental and refreshing and we think she summed it up in her ever so witty way by adding, "Your teen's aim is to suppress the information flow, and yours is to make it flow like the Mississippi River after a flood." If you want to learn how to dig deep, survive and perhaps even crack the psyche of your hormonal, temperamental, ever-changing teen you may be interested in this light-hearted, pragmatic parenting advice. Simply: You have a teen or know someone who does, check out this book.

I Am Modern Magazine

"Rittberg has penned a book offering parents advice on how to 'dig deep, survive and perhaps even crack the psyche of your hormonal, temperamental, ever-changing teen.'" —New York Post

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