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Also by Julie Ross:

How to Hug a Porcupine, July 2008
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HOW TO HUG A PORCUPINE
By: Julie Ross

Negotiating the Prickly Points of the Tween Years

McGraw-Hill
July 2008
On Sale: July 2, 2008
224 pages
ISBN: 0071545891
EAN: 9780071545891
Paperback
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“You never listen to anything I say!”

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

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