Parent In Control: Restore Order in Your Home and Create a Loving Relationship with Your Adolescent

by Gregory Bodenhamer

Overview

Using common scenarios to demonstrate specific parenting techniques, a onetime probation officer offers a straightforward, tested program for maintaining control over adolescents without harsh discipline.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780684807775
Publisher:	Touchstone
Publication date:	10/06/1995
Series:	Fireside Book Series
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Gregory Bodenhamer, author of Back In Control, is a nationally renowned expert on parenting difficult children. A former probation officer, Bodenhamer is a consultant and trainer for schools, police departments, and court agencies. He was also the director of the Back in Control Center in Portland, Oregon, a parenting program geared toward parenting in these tough times.

Editorial Reviews

Bodenhamer, a former probation officer who is director of the Back in Control Center in Portland, Ore., believes we are confronting ``the worst behaved generation of children in American history.'' For parents who need to retake charge of their children, he suggests a three-point focus based on ``rule-based discipline, supervision and emotional attachment.'' Offering sound, practical advice on dealing with provocative and manipulative verbal challenges raised by teenagers and early adolescents, he presents a convincing case for giving highly detailed ``job descriptions'' to teens (if McDonald's has a 600-page operations manual for its employees, parents shouldn't shy from explaining precisely how to take out the garbage). Bodenhamer directly faces such incendiary issues as sex, substance abuse and peer pressure (including that from gangs). Frequently, however, he sounds a reactionary note, as when he rails against the American Civil Liberties Union as the nation's ``most persistent enemy of adult authority'' and cites ``an inherited link between impulsive and immature unwed teenager parents and the impulsive and immature children to whom they give birth.'' While there is valuable help here, much of it sounds like the stuff of talk radio. (Oct.)

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