Practical Tips for Parents of Young Teens

What You Can Do to Enhance Your Child’s Middle School Years

Practical Tips for Parents of Young Teens: What You Can Do to Enhance Your Child’s Middle School Years is a 28 page booklet full of action oriented parenting tips for parents of middle school aged children.

Are you looking for parenting help?

This quick and easy-to-read “how-to” guide will help you to better understand and manage the tremendous changes you and your young teenager are experiencing during their middle school years.

• Learn practical tips about:
• your teen’s development – what’s behind the non-stop changes,
• Parenting dynamics – managing the contradictions and maintaining positive attitudes at home,
• Academics and involvement with school – tips for finding the right level of involvement,
• Friends and social life of your teenager – understanding this dynamic area at the heart of young teens’ focus,
• Risky behavior – tips for parents to remain vigilant and smart,
• Taking care your yourself – practical tips for your growth and peace of mind,
• Plus – a recommended reading list!

Middle schools, guidance counselors, PTO’s and other parent groups - We price these booklets with substantial bulk discounts, so you can buy books for all the parents in your community or middle school. Consider using them as incentives, “thank you’s” and rewards for increasing parent involvement.We are happy to give a free sample of this booklet to any middle school who requests it. Call 1-800-234-2150 or send an email to Sue@PleaseStoptheRollercoaster.com with your name, your school name and address and principal’s name.

This is a smart ‘how-to’ guide. We hand it out each year to all of our families entering middle school. It provides parents with concise and accurate information about what they need to know and what they can expect from their early adolescent, both at home and in school.”

-Maddie Brick, Principal

JFK Middle School, Hudson, MA

“In Practical Tips for Parents of Young Teens, Sue Blaney has broken down very complex issues into a wonderfully useful “how to” guide. In it, she offers parents ways to better guide, understand and communicate with our middle and/or high school children. Sometimes it is hard for us to remember what middle school was like and to put ourselves in our children’s situations and decision making processes. Thank you so much Sue!”

-Tammy Ducey, parent, Hudson, MA