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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

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Ross's central metaphor, 'tweens' as prickly-but-loveable porcupines, is funny and effective, and her writing style is easy-going, making this an accessible and practical primer.-- Library Journal

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Pam Ward, an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator, found her true calling reading books for the blind and physically handicapped for the Library of Congress' Talking Books program. The fact that she can work with Blackstone Audio from the beauty of the mountains of Southern Oregon is an unexpected bonus. Julia Ross, MA, author of the bestselling The Diet Cure, is a pioneer in the field of nutritional psychology. She has directed counseling programs in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1980 and is the founder and executive director of Recovery Systems, a holistic clinic that has helped thousands of people with mood problems, eating disorders, and addictions by combining counseling with nutrient therapy and biochemical rebalancing. An instructor at several San Francisco Bay Area universities, she is a popular lecturer whose work has been featured in publications such as Psychology Today, Natural Health, and the San Francisco Examiner Magazine. Ross lives and works in Marin County, California. Julie A. Ross, MA, is the executive director of Parenting Horizons, an organization devoted to enriching children's lives through parent and teacher education. She is the author of How to Hug a Porcupine: Negotiating the Prickly Points of the Tween Years, Now What Do I Do?: A Guide to Raising Elementary Aged Children, and Practical Parenting for the 21st Century: The Manual You Wish Had Come with Your Child. She leads parenting workshops nationwide, and lives in New York City with her husband, daughter and son.

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