THE PARENT WATCH MANUAL

Reclaim your life! Improve family relationships! Take back your home!

Are you or do you know a parent who is anxious, depressed or isolated as a result of the actions of an adolescent son or daughter? Is your child sad, truant, abusing drugs, threatening, running away, bullied, or making poor choices and decisions? Have you ended up feeling blamed, guilty, frustrated, powerless, alone or discouraged? Then the Parent Watch manual may be for you.

"Parent Watch: Teens in Crisis, Parents in Recovery" Parent Watch is a proven source of support and solutions for parents of problem teens. The Parent Watch formula has effectively helped families to recover from the problems associated with parenting an adolescent. Now the experiences and successes of countless parents have been distilled into a single volume. Parent Watch: Teens in Crisis, Parents in Recovery presents strategies and solutions drawn from the authors’ years of experience working with Parent Watch support groups. It contains the wisdom, insights and achievements of hundreds of parents covering such diverse and difficult topics as:taking charge,surviving crisis, sexuality, andresponsibility.

The Parent Watch manual is a workbook that guides parents through the necessary steps to regain control of their homes and redirect their teens. Can a workbook solve all your parenting problems? Maybe, maybe not. But the insights and solutions you’ll discover by working through the material will make a positive and possibly dramatic difference. This manual was developed for use at Parent Watch meetings, but you don’t need a Parent Watch meeting in your area to use or benefit from the book. You can work through the material on your own, with a spouse or a friend, or a counsellor, or at a Parent Watch meeting if one is available in your area. Its workbook format is easy to follow.

WHAT IS PARENT WATCH Parent Watch is a support and information network for effective family management. Each Parent Watch group brings together parents and professionals within the community in a positive, skill development and problem solving process that creates 'lived' solutions for family conflicts. Parent Watch can provide parents with a persistent feeling of confidence in dealing with their children. Parent Watch: Teens in Crisis, Parents in Recovery, ISBN: 0-9684986-0-4 Cdn: $22.50; US $16.25

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