Talking openly with your teens can be difficult. In Parenting Is a Contact Sport, by Joanne Stern, PhD, you will learn how to:

• Communicate openly with your kids and create a connection that will weather anything life throws your way
• Help your children learn from their experiences, even through the storms of adolescence, by using effective discipline
• Stay in touch with the realities of your kids' lives so you can continue to talk with them, even when they're dealing with such important issues as sex and drugs
• Increase the influence you have over their choices and behaviors so that, even when you can't be there, they use good judgment
• Develop mutual trust and respect that improves your kids' self-esteem and brings joy and laughter into your home