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How to Hug a Porcupine: Negotiating the Prickly Points of the Tween Years
Written by Julie A. Ross
Narrated by Pam Ward
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Yesterday, your child was a sweet, well-adjusted eight-year-old. Today, a moody, disrespectful twelve-year-old. What happened? And more important, how do you handle it? How you respond to these whirlwind changes will not only affect your child's behavior now but will determine how he or she turns out later. Julie A. Ross, executive director of Parenting Horizons, shows you exactly what's going on with your child and provides all the tools you need to correctly handle even the prickliest tween porcupine.
#9679 Find out how other parents survived nightmarish tween behavior-and still raised great kids
#9679 Break the "nagging cycle," give your kids responsibilities, and get results
#9679 Talk about sex, drugs, and alcohol so your kid will listen
#9679 Discover the secret that will help your child to disregard peer pressure and make smart choices-for life
#9679 Find out how other parents survived nightmarish tween behavior-and still raised great kids
#9679 Break the "nagging cycle," give your kids responsibilities, and get results
#9679 Talk about sex, drugs, and alcohol so your kid will listen
#9679 Discover the secret that will help your child to disregard peer pressure and make smart choices-for life
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Reviews for How to Hug a Porcupine
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book has great advice for anxious parents (like me!) and lots of good examples and step by step instructions for implementing it. Also applicable for teens.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I reserve the right to change the star rating if these techniques don't work! But Ross did make me think about some of our conflicts in a different way, and I do think using some of her ideas could improve the household communication. And maybe limit the number of sibling fights, which has been skyrocketing lately.
But I don't see us having weekly family meetings. Does anyone else do that? Ross is a big proponent, but it sounds a little bit corny to me. I'm not sure I could even get my husband on board, much less the kids.