10 Best Parenting Ways to Ruin Your Teenager

There's no way around it, parenting teenagers is not easy. But authors Galindo and Reagan argue, that it need not be toxic or horrific. The truth is, they say, that the first mistake most parents make is to attempt to "parent" their teenager. The more helpful stance, the authors say, is a coaching and challenging relationship that helps guide the teenager toward maturity and personal responsibility. The authors identify the ten most common errors that parents make in their relationship with their teenagers, and they suggest ways to change ineffective parental behaviors that will only frustrate the teenager and keep the parents' marriage stuck. While the book focuses on principles of the parental relationship, the book contains practical and helpful examples on how to first, handle yourself, and then, handle your teenager.