Description No one tells you what to expect.
About the Author Hal & Melanie Young are the award-winning authors of Raising Real Men and.
No Longer Little: Parenting Tweens with Grace and Hope Hal and Melanie Young, authors of Raising Real Men and My Beloved and My Friend, both awarded Christian Small Publishers Book of the Year, are your guides on this challenging journey through these critical years of parenting...so that the years to come get better and better.
Just what you need to cope with emotional meltdowns, motivate them to get school done, answer their spiritual questions, and most of all, protect your relationship with your eight to fourteen year olds.
Real encouragement.
Lay a foundation to make the teen years great HERE\'S HELP Practical help.
If you can get through the preteen years with your relationship intact, though, the teen years tend to get better and better.
When they are, the teens often just get worse and worse.
THE STAKES ARE HIGH Most parent-child relationships are broken during the tween years.
And spiritual questions pop up where there were none before.
School is a struggle, all of a sudden.
Emotions are high.
Things are changing.
Hormones are flowing.
A TIME OF TRANSITION What s happening? They re changing The Tweens or preteens, whatever you want to call it, are the beginning of the transition to adulthood.
Don t get a ticket for that ride.
They climb on an emotional rollercoaster and invite you to join them.
You don\'t care about me This is my favorite shirt You\'re always criticizing me Or, you walk in to find your daughter sobbing and ask, What s wrong, honey? I don t know she wails.
EMOTIONAL TURMOIL Change your shirt before you leave, you tell your son, but he explodes.
And the 13 year old...
The 11 year old that loves to run errands now can t remember the one thing you told them to bring you long enough to get out of the room.
Don\'t even ask about everything else.
Your 9 year old that loves school suddenly takes 3 hours to get math done.
Description No one tells you what to expect
