Fourteen (Talks) by (Age) Fourteen by Michelle Icard

Fourteen (Talks) by (Age) Fourteen by Michelle Icard

The fourteen essential conversations to have with your tween and early teenager to prepare them for the emotional, physical, and social challenges ahead, including scripts and advice to keep the communication going and stay connected during this critical developmental window. 

"This book is a gift to parents and teenagers alike."--Lisa Damour, PhD, author of Untangled and Under Pressure

Trying to convince a middle schooler to listen to you can be exasperating. Indeed, it can feel like the best option is not to talk! But keeping kids safe--and prepared for all the times when you can't be the angel on their shoulder--is about having the right conversations at the right time. From a brain growth and emotional readiness perspective, there is no better time for this than their tween years, right up to when they enter high school.

Distilling Michelle Icard's decades of experience working with families, Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen focuses on big, thorny topics such as friendship, sexuality, impulsivity, and technology, as well as unexpected conversations about creativity, hygiene, money, privilege, and contributing to the family. Icard outlines a simple, memorable, and family-tested formula for the best approach to these essential talks, the BRIEF Model: Begin peacefully, Relate to your child, Interview to collect information, Echo what you're hearing, and give Feedback. With wit and compassion, she also helps you get over the most common hurdles in talking to tweens, including:

* What phrases invite connection and which irritate kids or scare them off
* The best places, times, and situations in which to initiate talks
* How to keep kids interested, open, and engaged in conversation
* How to exit these chats in a way that keeps kids wanting more

Like a Rosetta Stone for your tween's confounding language, Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen is an essential communication guide to helping your child through the emotional, physical, and social challenges ahead and, ultimately, toward teenage success.

Michelle Icard founded Athena's Way in 2004, a program that teaches girls how to navigate the challenging middle school social milieu. Shortly after, she added Hero's Quest for boys, and in 2011, she established MichelleintheMiddle.com, a website about how to parent middle school children. Around 10,000 kids have benefited from Athena's Way and Hero's Pursuit, which have been implemented in thirty schools across five states. More than 250 instructors have received training in order to apply the programs in their classrooms. Michelle is a frequent guest speaker at schools and parenting events, as well as the organizer of Right in the Middle, a conference for middle school girls and their mothers.

Michelle is also the founder of Mothers Meet Up, a parent discussion and support organization for middle school parents. She works with parents and teenagers one-on-one. Michelle has also authored curricula for national adolescent programs such as Girlology and Girls Rock the House. Michelle contributes to Your Teen Magazine, The Karina Diaries blog, and Charlotte Smarty Pants in addition to her own blog.

She has a 13-year-old daughter as well as an 11-year-old son.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780593137512
ISBN 10	0593137515
Title	Fourteen (Talks) by (Age) Fourteen
Author	Michelle Icard
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2021-02-23
Number of pages	288
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.