Keeping Your Sanity While Loving and Letting Go of Your Teen
First Edition © Copyright 2005 ISBN: 0-97657141-0-1
Written and Illustrated by Anne Barry Jolles
Do you feel the job of parenting your teen is not the job you signed up for?
Then you are in the right place…
- Learn the 10 Sanity Rules for Loving and Letting Go of Your Teen.
Use the ‘Drive Through’ Menu where you select the Rule that you wish to work on and the Menu will direct you to Tools, Tips and Strategies to get what you need in that moment. - Grab and go with just what you need to begin using immediately in your busy and challenging job as a parent of a teen.
Rules and Tools are full of condensed wisdom that is easily digestible in manageable bite size pieces. - Get new insight and perspectives on the incredibly challenging job that you have of parenting a teen today.
Step into the perspective of humor as we navigate this developmental stage of the teen and this developmental stage of the parent. We are growing up too - Increase, notice and create opportunities for joy to enter your life and family life.
Hear a voice that says, “You are not alone.” - Learn short cuts back to sanity and on some days this book will keep you there.
Teach yourself to step into a bigger picture knowing certain things are predictable though not always pretty, easy or fun. - Gain tools to figure it out in a way that is right for you and your family. There is not just one right way to ‘love and let go’ of your teen,
Hear it from a parent’s voice with no preaching, finger pointing – only compassion… This is written from one heart to another. - Take away tools to elevate your perspective.
It is through emphasis of our strengths and noticing what is going right that we can find our way through these years.
- This book is a ‘hitch up with hope’ for parents of teens challenged by the letting go process… and do know any who are not?
Inspiration from someone who has been there and is still there….
Keeping Your Sanity is a very informative book. I was impressed by the feelings and ideas Anne captured through her poetry. The questions raised and the exercises recommended are very informative and thought provoking. Her emphasis on a stregth based approach resonates with my own philosophy. I believe people will find “Keeping Your Sanity…” a very helpful resource.
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How many parenting books have you started and not finished?!?
Drive Through Life Tools are simple and easy to use… no guilt if you don’t finish the book because that’s not what this is designed for…
This book is designed to be picked up when you need it and then hand you small pieces of new perspectives that you can step into on the spot wile you are doing your life…
“Keeping Your Sanity While Loving and Letting Go of Your Teen" is stocked with poems, stories, jokes, original illustrations and cartoons, inspirational quotes and powerful questions.
This book is a wake-up call to the reality of parenting a teen today. It is easy to use, humorous, creative and designed to stimulate feelings, thoughts and discussion about some hard stuff.
It is not a “how to” book but a book designed to help you to find your answers for your family.
“This is a heart felt statement of a mother’s experience raising teens and the wisdom she gained. Anne has pulled together a lot of ideas, sources and tools that can be helpful in bringing perspective to a worried parent.”
Lon Woodbury.
IECA Certified Educational Consultant and
co-author of The Woodbury Report at www.strugglingteens.com
This book includes:
- A Parenting Survival Tool Kit {metaphorical and humorous}
- Strategies for getting clarity amidst the chaos and confusion
- Validation of how big a job you have raising teens today
- A sharing of inspiration and optimism in hopes of increasing your resiliency as a parent of a teen
- Tools for regaining your footing after set backs
- Strategies to cut through the brain clutter and help you bounce with adversity instead of crash…
Here’s a little secret… Keeping your Sanity all the time is not possible… It is really about learning new ways to get back to your center- to your strength and guiding principles- and bounce and be more resilient.
You will get both a hug and a kick in the butt form this book…
It is hard to be a parent and not a best friend!
This book is fabulous. It is a nice blend of humor, realism, strategies and concepts. “Keeping Your Sanity…” will be a help to parents and professionals alike.
Do you feel that parenting a teen is not the job you signed up for?
Then this book is for you…
Order a copy of “Keeping Your Sanity While Loving and Letting Go of Your Teens”
$14.99 plus shipping and handling
ALSO,
An Accompanying CD entitled: Keeping Your Sanity While Loving and Letting Go of Your Teen
Original poems, inspirational thoughts and wisdom shared, written and narrated by Anne Barry Jolles with humor, compassion and a twist of reality.
Original music and sound production by Award Winning Joe Merrick of Guilty Dog Studios www.joemerrick.com
- You will hear Anne’s reassuring, compassionate and mischievous voice as you listen to humor with a reality that is based in raising a teen today.
This is a ‘hitch up with hope’ for parents of teens challenged by the letting go process… and do know any who are not?
- Inspiration from someone who has been there.
Pop this in while you are in your car on the way to the office, carpooling, grocery store or dropping off the little darlin’s at the mall… and it is like having a friend alongside for the ride.
$11.99 plus shipping and handling
Testimonials
We have been having a ball passing this CD around to all the parents in our Alanon Group. We love it!
We had a problem in our home and I caved and gave in to my daughter. The outcome was quite scary though not disasterous. I kept hearing Anne’s voice and knew I should have said NO… Thanks, Anne, next time I will listen.
SPECIAL OFFER:
CD Discount to $9.95 if purchased with the book ($14.99.
Total cost for book and cd is $24.94
Volume discounts available for purchases of 10 or more books and CDs
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Read a sample of poetry from "Keeping Your Sanity While Loving and Letting Go of Your Teen"