Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Just Tell Me what to do about…Raising a Teen -- 1 - Deflection and Denial: Your Teen's Main Defense Mechanisms -- 2 - My Teenage Clone: The Power of Conformity -- 3 - Getting your Teen Up in the Morning: Strategies for Eliminating the Daily Fight from the Morning Routine -- 4 - You can't Always Get what you Want: The Demanding and Entitled Teen -- 5 - Too Much Time on their Hands: The Busier the Teen, the More Motivated -- 6 - The Power of Puberty: Changing Body, Changing Brain -- 7 - L is for Lazy: Getting your Teens to do what you Want them to Do -- 8 - Trust vs. Temptation: How to Help a Sneaky Teen -- 9 - Lies of Omission: "Oh. I didn't Think I had to Tell you That" -- 10 - Why don't Boys Talk? A Different Kind of Silent Treatment -- 11 - My Kid the Quitter: Why won't My Teen Stick with Anything? -- 12 - The Parent-Teen Power Struggle: You can't Make Me -- 13 - Helping your Teen with Remembering: You Forgot your __________ Again? -- 14 - Teen Self-Absorption: My Teen the Narcissist -- 15 - My Teen the Pit Bull: Never Takes No for an Answer -- 16 - The Teen who Talks Back: The Kid's Got Attitude -- 17 - The Messy Room: To Clean or not to Clean -- Part Two: Just Tell Me what to do about…Keeping My Teen Motivated and Engaged in School -- 18 - Why can't My Teen do Better? How to Assess Achievement -- 19 - Studying and Learning vs. Texting and Facebook: Strategies for Time Management -- 20 - The Plight of the Homework Avoider: It's not Just Laziness -- 21 - The Drama of Exams: A Strategy for Success -- 22 - The Report Card: A Call to Action -- 23 - Summer Reading: Thank you Teachers, for Ruining My Last Few Weeks of Summer -- Part Three: Just Tell Me what to do about…Navigating the College Process.

24 - Senioritis-Parentitis: Surviving the Application Process and Tips for Successful College Visits -- 25 - Eenie, Meenie, Miney Mo, to which College should I Go? A Roadmap for Decision Making -- 26 - What to Expect from your High School Graduating Senior: Letting Go -- 27 - What to Expect from your College Students when they Return Home -- Part Four: Just Tell Me what to do about…Helping My Teen Avoid the Friendship Traps -- 28 - The Bully Pulpit: Strategies to Ward Off a Bully -- 29 - Loyalty in Teens can be Harmful to their Health: Penn State, a Case Study -- 30 - The Agony of a Ninth-Grade Boy: What it Feels Like to be the Youngest Boy in the School -- 31 - Teens who Feel Left Out: "Why don't they Ever Call Me?" -- 32 - The Bad Seed Friend: What to do about the Friend you Wish your Teen didn't Have -- Part Five: Just Tell Me what to do about…Drinking and Drugs -- 33 - Getting to know your Teen's Drinking Personality: What Motivates your Teen to Drink or do Drugs? -- 34 - Keeping your Teens Safe If or When they Choose to Drink: A Successful Strategy -- 35 - The Consequences of Teens Drinking in your Home: It's Always your Responsibility to Keep Teens Safe -- 36 - What Happens when Teens are Left Unsupervised: A Room-for-Improvement Parenting Story -- 37 - A Chilling Drinking Story: Alcohol and Date Rape -- 38 - Dope, Weed, Pot, Grass, Cannabis, Marijuana, Hemp: They All Spell Trouble -- 39 - Teen-Proofing your Home for Alcohol and Drug Safety: Looking at your Home through a New Lens -- 40 - Party Planning with your Teen: Commonsense Rules -- Part Six: Just Tell Me what to do about…Understanding and Dealing with My Teen's Sex Life -- 41 - Talking to your Teen about Sex -- 42 - Boy wants Sex, Girl Likes Boy: Helping your Daughter Say No -- 43 - Spin the Bottle and Other Sexual Situations: Strategies for Good Decision Making.

44 - Keeping your Teen Dressing Like a Teen: Sexy and the Teenage Girl -- 45 - Finding your Teen between the Sheets: Love in the Afternoon -- 46 - Is your Teen Gay/Lesbian? Discussions on Sexuality -- Part Seven: Just Tell Me what to do about…Online and Phone Sexting -- 47 - The Consequences of Sexting: A "Weinergate" Moment -- 48 - A Teenage Girl's Painful Lesson: A Private Photo goes Public -- 49 - Sexual Harassment: Sending Sexy Photos is not Always a Choice -- 50 - Skyping, Sexting, and Exotic Dancing: The Allure of a Live Audience -- 51 - The Legal Consequences of Sexting: My Son, the Sex Offender -- Part Eight: Just Tell Me what to do about…Cellphones and Smartphones -- 52 - Cellphone/Smartphone Monitoring: Should I or shouldn't I? -- 53 - Dealing with your Teen's Cellphone Addiction -- 54 - Does My Teen Text too Much? If so what can I do about It? -- 55 - Driving Distracted: Don't Let their Fingers do the Talking when they're Driving -- 56 - Teens Losing Sleep: Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Texting -- 57 - Should I Buy My Teen a Smartphone? -- 58 - A Scary Story: The Misuse of Smartphones -- Part Nine: Just Tell Me what to do about…Social Networking Sites and Applications -- 59 - Teaching your Teen Safe Posting: The Too-Much-Information Dilemma -- 60 - A "Friending" Intervention: Teaching your Teen how to "Make Friends" on Social Networking Sites -- 61 - To Give or not to Give: My Parents, My Passwords -- 62 - Facebook + Alcohol Posts = Problem Drinkers -- 63 - Icky New Social Networking Sites…Beware! -- 64 - Facebook Posts that could Put your Teen in Jail: Threats that are Taken Seriously -- 65 - Social Networking and the Stolen Identity: Keeping your Teens Safe from Other Teens -- 66 - I'll Give you My Password If you Give Me Yours: Going Steady in the 21st Century.

67 - Cleaning Up Facebook and Twitter Posts: Preparing your Teen for the Real World of Jobs and College -- 68 - Online Bullying: Being Made Fun of can Really Hurt -- Part Ten: Just Tell Me what to do about…My Parenting Style -- 69 - Four Ways of Fighting: A Roadmap for Effective Arguing -- 70 - Puh-leez…No Lecture -- 71 - Playing the Game of Curfew: "Please can I? Everybody Else Is" -- 72 - Ask Less, Get More: Stop the Interrogation -- 73 - Too Much Love can be a Bad Thing: Holding your Teen Accountable -- 74 - Too Much, Too Soon: Understanding Age-Appropriate Privileges -- 75 - "So What, Who Cares?" Making Consequences Mean Something -- 76 - Teaching your Teen about Money Management: Curbing the Teen Money Pit -- 77 - I Just don't Fit into this Family Anymore: Helping your Teen to Feel Connected -- 78 - Successful Rule Making: Sharing the Control -- 79 - Good Cop-Bad Cop: A Parenting Dilemma -- 80 - Finding the Bliss with your Teen: Treasuring the Time -- Index -- About the Author -- Free Sample Chapter from Success under Stress.