How to Hug a Porcupine, Julie A. Ross, MA
How to Hug a Porcupine, Julie A. Ross, MA
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How to Hug a Porcupine
Negotiating the Prickly Points of the Tween Years

Author: Julie A. Ross, MA

Narrator: Pam Ward

Unabridged: 6 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/20/2017

Synopsis

Yesterday, your child was a sweet, well-adjusted eight-year-old. Today, a moody, disrespectful twelve-year-old. What happened? And more important, how do you handle it? How you respond to these whirlwind changes will not only affect your child's behavior now but will determine how he or she turns out later. Julie A. Ross, executive director of Parenting Horizons, shows you exactly what's going on with your child and provides all the tools you need to correctly handle even the prickliest tween porcupine.

● Find out how other parents survived nightmarish tween behavior—and still raised great kids

● Break the "nagging cycle," give your kids responsibilities, and get results

● Talk about sex, drugs, and alcohol so your kid will listen

● Discover the secret that will help your child to disregard peer pressure and make smart choices—for life

About Julie A. Ross, MA

Julie A. Ross, MA, is the executive director of Parenting Horizons, an organization devoted to enriching children's lives through parent and teacher education. She is the author of How to Hug a Porcupine: Negotiating the Prickly Points of the Tween Years, Now What Do I Do?: A Guide to Raising Elementary Aged Children, and Practical Parenting for the 21st Century: The Manual You Wish Had Come with Your Child. She leads parenting workshops nationwide, and lives in New York City with her husband, daughter and son.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mindy

I haven't cried this hard while reading a book in a long time! I cried for two reasons, one is that everything I'm currently experiencing with Sierra was written about in this book and it was such a relief that if it's written down, it's because other people have experienced the same thing which mea......more

Goodreads review by Kim

very good description of what's in a tween's head. The solutions as always sound like they'd be comfortable for a psychologist but not so much for the average parent! Definitely worth a read though. Now to get my husband to read it.........more

Goodreads review by Natali

I appreciated this book. I have a 10 year-old son. I noticed his moods were shifting a bit and I wanted to be ready for his tweens. The author is a really positive advocate for middle schoolers. She offers parents a great perspective for shifting the paradigm of parenting from protecting your grade......more

Goodreads review by Jenine

Not a rave but there are certainly a lot of good approaches here. I argued with the book most of the way through. One of her tenets is that the parent should set all their emotional reactions aside in order to interact with their highly emotional tween child. I agree that it's important to set react......more

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