About the AuthorDr. Janet Sasson Edgette is a psychologist practicing in Exton, Pennsylvania who, for the past twenty-five years, has specialized in providing services for children, teenagers, young adults, and their parents. She also specializes in providing sport and performance psychology enhancement services to athletes and performing artists. Janet is the author of six books on parenting, counseling, and sport psychology, including the popular parenting paperback, Stop Negotiating with Your Teen: Strategies for Parenting Your Angry, Manipulative, Moody, or Depressed Adolescent, and her critically acclaimed book for mental health professionals entitled, Adolescent Therapy That Works: Helping Kids Who Never Asked for Help in the First Place. Her most recent book is called The Last Boys Picked: Helping Boys Who Don't Play Sports Survive Bullying and Boyhood. Janet's work in the areas of child, preteen, and adolescent therapy, family counseling, and parent effectiveness has put her in great demand as a therapist, speaker, workshop leader, and consultant to schools and mental health agencies. She has conducted professional workshops and educational programs for psychiatrists, psychologists, school counselors, social workers, therapists, probation officers, caseworkers, school administrators, teachers, parents, and foster parents all around the United States as well as in Canada, Mexico, Russia, Croatia, and Germany. Janet is the mother of three teenager boys herself. She also is an avid horseback rider, having competed in the show jumping divisions in almost every major horse show along the east coast. For the past six summers, Janet has returned to what she calls her favorite place on earth--Camp Forest and Indian Acres in Fryeburg, Maine--where she spent her childhood summers and nows makes herself available as a consultant. Please visit her website, janetedgette.com, for more information and to view her blog and speaking calendar. what classifies as a book Stop Negotiating with Your Teen: Strategies for Parenting your Angry Manipulative Moody or Depressed Adolescent
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Brings out the best in your kids and youBy justturned30Dr. Edgette gets it. As our daughter got older and pushier, we let our rules and expectations slide and ended up with a child we loved but often didn't want to be around. This book gives concrete examples about how to reestablish household rules and expectations for decent behavior while still showing empathy and love. Getting back to solid, proper parenting is an uphill, one-day-at-a-time battle, but so worth it to have a good relationship with our daughter again.0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Not a complete waste of timeBy Devin K. WilliamsPick your strategy from too many and then don't expect it to truly work because you're still dealing with a teen... Not a complete waste of time, though. You'll be reminded you're not alone in the struggle and may even pick up an idea or two. But bottom line is there won't be a magic wand in the words of this book unless you're exceptionally lucky.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy SueVery informative book