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How to Talk to Your Teen about Anything
They want independence, but need to know you’re there. They need guidance, but they don’t want advice. They’ll chat with their friends, but not with you. Breaking the wall of silence with your teen can sometimes be difficult, but it’s possible to find connection and have really good talks when you know how. This supportive parenting book provides communication tools, advice, and relatable real-life stories that will help you get the conversation started and strengthen your relationship with your teen.
What sets How to Talk to Your Teen About Anything apart from other books on parenting teens:
Key communication skills—Learn essential communication techniques, including active listening and emotional regulation, and how to deal with communicating in the digital age.
Teen parenting 101—Explore what teens want from life and how you can find a balance between discipline, support, and letting go.
Recognize your patterns—Understand your patterns, and learn how to set healthy emotional boundaries that will help you prepare for things like sex education (aka “the talk”), and inspire your teen to open up about sensitive topics.
Open the lines of communication and bond with them every day using How to Talk to Your Teen About Anything.
What sets How to Talk to Your Teen About Anything apart from other books on parenting teens:
Key communication skills—Learn essential communication techniques, including active listening and emotional regulation, and how to deal with communicating in the digital age.
Teen parenting 101—Explore what teens want from life and how you can find a balance between discipline, support, and letting go.
Recognize your patterns—Understand your patterns, and learn how to set healthy emotional boundaries that will help you prepare for things like sex education (aka “the talk”), and inspire your teen to open up about sensitive topics.
Open the lines of communication and bond with them every day using How to Talk to Your Teen About Anything.
- GenresParentingNonfiction
158 pages, Paperback
Published January 18, 2022
About the author
Katie Malinski
2 books2 followersKatie Malinski is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).
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January 19, 2022
If you have a teen, or a tween, or a child that will be one of those soon - get How to Talk to Your Teen About Anything. Often, parenting books seem to be written more for professionals or people who are academically interested in the subject. This book was actually written for people who are busy parenting but want or need to know more.
Several things make this a particularly good and useful book. First, every word is in service of telling you what you need to know. While the information the author relays is clearly informed by science and research, she doesn’t overwhelm the reader with ten pages summarizing that background for each point made. Sometimes you just want someone to tell you what will work! There is a further resources and reference section if you want to know more or dive deeper.
Another part of what makes this book good is how accessible it is. The author tells you why teens are special, why you should care about communication, what the five communications skills are, and then finally, how to tie it all together. In the chapters on the five key skills she defines each skill, explains how it works and then tells you how to put that skill into action. This format makes it both easy to read and easy to go back and reference the book later if desired.
My favorite sections of the book are the “real life scenarios”. Its great to read what one should be doing as a parent, but sometimes translating that to real life isn’t easy. These scenarios often serve to model the skills the author is teaching (and maybe remind us that you probably aren’t the only one who has yelled at their kid).
In general the book is easy to read, humorous, and strikes a strong balance between education and guidance, enabling you to improve communication between you and your kiddo. Thanks to the publisher for the advance review copy.
Several things make this a particularly good and useful book. First, every word is in service of telling you what you need to know. While the information the author relays is clearly informed by science and research, she doesn’t overwhelm the reader with ten pages summarizing that background for each point made. Sometimes you just want someone to tell you what will work! There is a further resources and reference section if you want to know more or dive deeper.
Another part of what makes this book good is how accessible it is. The author tells you why teens are special, why you should care about communication, what the five communications skills are, and then finally, how to tie it all together. In the chapters on the five key skills she defines each skill, explains how it works and then tells you how to put that skill into action. This format makes it both easy to read and easy to go back and reference the book later if desired.
My favorite sections of the book are the “real life scenarios”. Its great to read what one should be doing as a parent, but sometimes translating that to real life isn’t easy. These scenarios often serve to model the skills the author is teaching (and maybe remind us that you probably aren’t the only one who has yelled at their kid).
In general the book is easy to read, humorous, and strikes a strong balance between education and guidance, enabling you to improve communication between you and your kiddo. Thanks to the publisher for the advance review copy.
January 18, 2022
Fabulous guide, presented in bite-size pieces. Esp. loved the real-life scenarios, and the variety and diversity of the folks in the scenarios. Great way to understand what's going on with your teen's (or pre-teen's!) brain, and learn to more appropriately talk with them and have conversations, as well as tips on adult's own 'prep' for convos.
This book was an ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
This book was an ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
January 18, 2022
This is a great book for parents. It is highly readable, written with great good sense and good humor. It is skills based, and (bonus!) the skills are useful in pretty much any area of human interaction. This should be a standard book in every family's library (like What to Expect When You Are Expecting, but for tweens and teens).
Don't rush through it—or do, but then go back through, taking the time to do the activities and answer the questions.
Don't rush through it—or do, but then go back through, taking the time to do the activities and answer the questions.
June 18, 2022
This little book was really helpful! It is so accessible, straightforward, and practical. I wish I'd had it before my kids turned into teens to set a better pattern of communication and interaction. I would recommend that all parents of tweens read it and practice it so that they can get through the challenges of teenagers with fewer arguments and more open communications (fingers crossed).
March 23, 2022
Not enough!
I enjoyed reading this book. Straight & clear explanations, also the examples are really good but I would liked for Katie to expand a little more on the concepts and provide us more real life examples, like the ones places I the book.
After all, I recommend the reading of this book to any one parenting teens or pre teens.
I enjoyed reading this book. Straight & clear explanations, also the examples are really good but I would liked for Katie to expand a little more on the concepts and provide us more real life examples, like the ones places I the book.
After all, I recommend the reading of this book to any one parenting teens or pre teens.
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