Dr. Scott Wooding's Parenting Thoughts

It probably is agood idea to start my blogging career with an introduction. For the past 30+ years I have been a school psychologist, junior high counselor, high school counselor and a psychologist in private practice. Most of this time my work has been with teenagers. I even spent a year in Norway working in an adolescent psychiatric hospital.

Over the years I have been collecting teen's ideas on what makes a good parent. Much to my amazement, they corresponded well to what most experts think on this subject. The result was my first book "Hear Me, Hug Me, Trust Me" which basically teaches parents how to successfully parent their teenagers. This book is mainly a manual for parents of young teens who find their behavior puzzling and need help to parent more effectively and to take the frustration out of the process. In May, 2003, I published my new parenting manual "Rage, Rebellion and Rudeness: Parenting Teenagers in the New Millennium." This book is more of a troubleshooting manual for parents who are having specific problems with their teenager.

I will be using this space to post my thoughts on some of the problems that are facing parents of teens in this new millennium and how best to deal with them.

Stay tuned for my weekly postings.

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