Parents should come with instruction booklets -- Parent profiles -- Let's get together : the art of negotiation -- Leave me alone : how to get some privacy -- Planet teen : hip hop, hanging out, and your entourage -- The essentials of declaring independence : piercings, tattoos, and hair dye -- When the clock strikes : curfews -- High school hell : bad grades and other scholastic scrapes -- The road to freedom : your driver's license -- Work it : after school jobs, allowances, and earning money -- Cyber-life -- Parentspeak : decoding your parent's catch phrases.
Summary:
Offers teenage girls and their parents practical advice on how they can cope with the ups and downs of the teenage years and develop good communication methods that will strengthen the parent-child relationship.
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