The 10-year-old talks back. The 12-year-old skipped school. The 15-year-old just pierced what?Parents who are exhausted, frustrated or just plain scared about parenting teens and "almost" teens will appreciate this road map for the middle-school years. Louise Felton Tracy, a social worker and school counselor who survived the adolescence of her own six children, believes that both parents and kids will do better when the focus switches to helping teenagers balance their desires with life's responsibilities. To guide parents in this transition, each chapter of Grounded for Life?! ends with an easy-to-read list of the steps parents can take to ensure that they and their teenagers keep talking to each other. | Grounded For Life? by Louise Felton Tracy, Paperback | Indigo Chapters