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Top 6 Must Have Books for Parents: Developing a Discipline Style

By Denise Witmer, About.com Guide

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If you want to develop a positive and workable discipline style, try these books. They will help your relationship with your teenager become positive interactions, rather than 'I'm not talking to you' tiffs and knock-down fights.

1. Positive Discipline for Teenagers: Empowering Your Teens and Yourself
Product Description: Positive Discipline for Teenagers shows you how to break the destructive cycle of guilt and blame and work toward greater understanding and communication with your adolescents.

2. Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager
Product Description: 7 Steps to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love. Every teenager rebels against authority -- talks back, breaks curfew, or disobeys. But literally millions of teens take their rebellion to a point where it disrupts their families and endangers their own futures or even their lives. If one of these teens is yours, get this book. Finally, this breakthrough guide from a master therapist will show you the seven steps to positive, permanent change for you and your teenager.

3. Stop Negotiating With Your Teen
Product Description: The sullen, withdrawn, sarcastic teenager. The defensive, wary, and helpless parent. This book builds a bridge between the two sides--with practical and supportive advice on how to Contain conflicts before they escalate into violence, break through the teen's verbal intimidation and much more.

4. Uncommon Sense for Parents With Teenagers
Product Description: This question-and-answer book helps parents understand and cope with issues of modern teenage life: alcohol, drugs, and parties; academics; sex; eating disorders; homosexuality; divorce and remarriage - while encouraging parents to move from being their child's manager to being their consultant.

5. The Whipped Parent: Hope for Parents Raising an Out-Of-Control Teen
Product Description: Both parents and professionals will discover that The Whipped Parent is a practical, realistic and easy-to-understand resource for dealing with an adolescent's frustrating behaviors -- behaviors that can leave even the most experienced parents "whipped."

6. Parenting Teens With Love & Logic
Product Description: As a parent, you face no greater challenge-and no greater opportunity-than to guide your children through their teen years toward productive, happy, and responsible adulthood. Parenting Teens with Love and Logic will help you meet that challenge and rejoice in that opportunity.

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