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How to Hug a Porcupine: Negotiating the Prickly Points of the Tween Years

by Julie A. Ross

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A practical guide to navigating the tween years

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A practical guide to navigating the tween years

Julie A. Ross’s parenting guide addresses the abrupt shifts that can make the years between childhood and adolescence feel especially fraught at home. It centers on recurring points of conflict—disrespectful exchanges, parental nagging, household responsibilities, and the growing influence of peers—and frames them as opportunities for more deliberate communication. The book also takes up conversations about sex, drugs, and alcohol, alongside strategies intended to help parents support sound decision-making. With examples drawn from other parents’ experiences, it organizes everyday tween challenges into concrete areas for discussion and response.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Parents and caregivers of tweens
  • Adults seeking tools for parent-child communication and household conflict
  • Families preparing to discuss peer pressure, sex, drugs, and alcohol

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Tween developmentParent-child communicationResponsibilities and boundariesPeer pressureParenting strategies

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Book overview

"You never listen to anything I say!"

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.

  • Find out how other parents survived nightmarish tween behavior--and still raised great kids
  • Break the "nagging cycle," give your kids responsibilities, and get results
  • Talk about sex, drugs, and alcohol so your kid will listen
  • Discover the secret that will help your child to disregard peer pressure and make smart choices--for life

"This excellent book lets parents peek into the underlying, confusing thoughts and perplexing decisions that young tweens are constantly facing."
--Ralph I. L

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