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  • Published: 22 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9780593697528
  • Imprint: Rocky Pond Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $39.99

How to Survive Your Parents

A Teen's Guide to Thriving in a Difficult Family





Want to improve your relationship with your problematic parents? This honest and supportive guide, written by an experienced teen therapist, will help.

Want to improve your relationship with your problematic parents? This honest and supportive guide, written by an experienced teen therapist, will help.

This book is for you―not your parents. Step-by-step, using approaches that are relatively easy but bring big results, you’ll be guided in how to improve the important and super-challenging relationship between you and your parents. This doesn’t mean you’re going to become best friends, but you will learn the skills needed to change how you see one another and how you interact. And ultimately, you will gain control over your own life.

Included are revealing descriptions of various problematic parenting styles, techniques—both verbal and not—for increasing the connection between you and your parents, advice about setting clear boundaries, and sample conversations that can be used as a script. Think of it as therapy in book form: on your side, encouraging and clear, and full of the time-proven advice you won’t get from your friends and certainly not from your parents.

  • Published: 22 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9780593697528
  • Imprint: Rocky Pond Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $39.99

Praise for How to Survive Your Parents

Awards and Praise

Kindness for Weakness
YALSA Best Fiction for YA
Texas Tayshas Reading List
“Gripping action, gritty dialog, vivid characters, and palpable tension permeate the brief chapters of James’s powerful, honest, compelling narrative.”—School Library Journal
“Goodman’s masterful story will remain with the reader long after the last page.”—Ruta Sepetys
“A daring, dazzling leap into the dark passage that is the journey to manhood.”—Paul Griffin

Something Like Hope
Delacorte Press Prize
*“Shavonne’s voice—witty, tender, explicit, and tough—will grab readers.”—Booklist, starred
“Will break your heart and then slowly put it back together in a new and profound way. You will not forget this book.”—Matt de la Pena

This Way Home
“Brimming with hard realities about the choices we make, the friendships we keep, and the unlikely allies we find along the way, this affecting novel helps to fill the gaping hole left by Walter Dean Myers’s passing.” —Booklist
“A taut, haunting tragedy.”—Kirkus