Family Management Issues

In by Dr James Wellborn

General

Dinkmeyer, Don C, Sr. and McKay, Gary D.  Parenting Teenagers: Systematic Training for Effective Parenting of Teens.  Step Publishers, 2007.

Forgatch, Marion S. and Patterson, Gerald R.  Parents And Adolescents Living Together: Part 2, Family Problem Solving.  Champaign, IL:  Research Press, 2005.

Howard, Rennie.  Parenting at the Speed of Teens: Positive Tips on Everyday Issues.  Minneapolis, MN: The Search Institute, 2004.

Patterson, Gerald R. and Forgatch, Marion S.  Parents And Adolescents Living Together: Part 1, The Basics.  Champaign, IL:  Research Press,  2005.


Allowance and Money

Butler, Tamsen.  The Complete Guide to Personal Finance: For Teenagers.  New York:   Atlantic Publishing Group Inc., 2010.

Godfrey, Neale S., Edwards, Carolina and Richards, Tad.  Money Doesn’t Grow On Trees: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Financially Responsible Children.  New York: Touchstone, 2006.

Whitcomb, John E.  Capitate Your Kids: Teaching Your Teens Financial Independence.  Madison Heights, MI:  Popcorn Press, 2001.

The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.  National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse VIII: Teens and Parents.  August, 2003.

Statistic Brain.  Teenage Consumer Spending Statistics.  2012.  (Note to reader:  I lost the reference for the Rand Youth Poll statistics on adolescent spending originally quoted in this chapter.  Here are more recent statistics on the even larger boatload of discretionary and directly influenced money spent by teenagers.)


Jobs and Employment

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly and Schneider, Barbara.   Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work.  New York:  Basic Books, 2001.

Ireland, Susan.  Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cool Jobs for Teens.  New York:  Alpha, 2000.

Vernon, Naomi.  A Teen’s Guide to Finding a Job.  Bloomington, IN:  AuthorHouse, 2003.


Teenage Privacy

Giannetti, Charlene C. and Sagarese, Margaret. What Are You Doing In There? Balancing Your Need to Know with Your Child’s Need to Grow. New York: Broadway Books, 2003.

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