Stop Yelling, Start Listening -- Understanding Your Middle School Child

Through their years of working with Middle School children and their parents, Darryl Sollerh and Leslie King, LCSW, have developed a deeply compassionate and realistic approach that takes into consideration both the parent and child's point of view. Filled with real-life examples, this guide examines the likely flashpoints for family conflicts, from a child's changing body to their budding social lives, from their homework habits to their misrepresentations, from their calls for independence to their need for dependence. At heart, Sollerh and King's approach will spark an empathetic awakening in both you and your Middle Schooler, not only as you each meet the initially difficult phases of any challenge or crisis, but also as you move into the future together, guided by a new awareness capable of supporting your ongoing efforts to grow in a relationship of shared dialogs, mutual respect and deepening understanding.