Wonderful Ways to Love a Teen by Judy Ford

Wonderful Ways to Love a Teen by Judy Ford

A Handbook and Guide to Parenting Teens

Even when your relationship appears hopelessly beyond repair, you can follow the tips in this book and rebuild a loving bond.

Learn healthy parenting habits. While there are a lot of highs to parenting, there are plenty of challenges, particularly when it comes to teens. While we were all teenagers once, we often can't understand what our own teens are going through. But there are certain habits you can pick up that can make the teen years easier for both you and your child.

Dealing with the changes. Just because your relationship with your teen looks different doesn't mean it's any less meaningful. The shifts that come may seem unwelcome at first, but as you learn to adapt and respond in a way that connects with your teen rather than pushes them further away, the changes are easier to work through. Recognizing that you're growing and learning as you go, it's important to understand boundaries with teens, and give them the space to do their own growing.

Love them through it. Author and licensed clinical social worker Judy Ford offers honest and valuable advice to parents who feel depleted and desolate when it comes to their relationship with their teen. With gentle wisdom and a healthy dose of good humor, Ford guides parents and teenagers through one of the most difficult times in parenting. Learn how to shift the focus from the hardships and the mishaps to the joys and heartfelt moments.

Read this book by bestselling author, mother, and inspirational role model Judy Ford and discover.

• Easy-to-follow advice for parents presented in 60 two-page essays
• Powerful and poignant examples from true life stories
• A how-to guide for loving your teens, even when it seems impossible

Readers of other parenting books such as Parenting Teens with Love and Logic, Grown and Flown, Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety, and The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers will find a further source of wisdom in Wonderful Ways to Love a Teen.

Judy Ford is a child of the manse, her father being a Methodist minister who spent much of his working life in academia. She attended Lady Margaret Hall, a college of the University of Oxford, gaining a degree in mathematics in 1979. While she was there she met her husband, Neville, another mathematics student and they married shortly after graduation. They moved back to his home town of Widnes, near Liverpool, and have lived in the Cheshire/Merseyside area ever since. Judy's working life has been varied, including a brief time in industry, several periods in university posts in Mathematics, Computer Science and Earth Sciences departments, ten years as a research manager in the National Health Service and an eleven year career break while bringing up three children (all now mathematics graduates!). Since leaving the NHS, Judy has been working part time at the University of Chester while devoting up to three days per week to her passion of writing. She writes for pleasure, but hopes that there may be people out there who will enjoy reading about the characters that she has created as much as she enjoys telling their stories. As Methodist Local Preacher, Judy often tells her congregation, I see my role as asking the questions and leaving you to think out your own answers. She carries this philosophy forward into her writing and she hopes that readers will find themselves challenged to think as well as being entertained.

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ISBN 13	9781573248150
ISBN 10	1573248150
Title	Wonderful Ways to Love a Teen
Author	Judy Ford
Series	Wonderful Ways
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Conari Press,U.S.
Year published	2002-09-19
Number of pages	176
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.