How to Raise Your Parents: A Teen Girl's Survival Guide | 
| Author: Sarah O'leary Burningham
Creator: Bella Pilar
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 139677
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: All Ages
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0811856968
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.780835
EAN: 9780811856966
ASIN: 0811856968
Publication Date: March 26, 2008
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Product Description
Being a teen (or the parent of a teen) doesn't have to be so hard. How to Raise Your Parents will help teens and their parents navigate those years between training bras and keys to the family car. In a voice teens will relate to and parents will appreciate, author Sarah O'Leary Burningham offers smart advice about negotiation and parental hot buttons and a little insight about what the world looks like from a parent's point of view.
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 Want to breed rebellion and manipulation? You found the right book! July 17, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had to give it a star because you can't choose zero stars!!!
I can see there are only two people who really took a close look at this book with their reviews. There was a bunch of language and "moody" writing. I believe that this author has some serious issues and they will probably come out in her marriage and future family relations. Look she doesn't even have children yet. Yes, she may be writing from a teens perspective but what teen isn't still clueless about life skills and about life in general.
This book is a bunch of crap. It is for parents who aren't willing to do the right thing and actually parent. Just from the introduction you get a since that this book breeds rebellion. It may not promote fighting and yelling, but it does promote manipulation. Let's see, having a fun non-manipulative environment where the parent is actually involved in teaching the life skills that this book does a poor job at trying to teach or having a rebellious child trying to manipulate you into getting what they want. No Thank You, I will stick with parenting my child the correct way. This book as an absolute joke!
 Disappointing June 21, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had seen good reviews of this book, so I was disappointed to see vulgar language and a flippant, dismissive style of writing. The author's aim obviously was to use teen-trendy language, but she missed the mark. There is actually some good usable information here. Too bad it is presented as how to be devious and manipulate your parents rather than how to actually take adult responsibility.
 book review June 2, 2008
Excellent book, my daughter has not read it yet but full of info for both parents & kids
Great Gift for those headin' down the hormone highway but too young to drive! May 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sarah O'Leary Burningham has written a delightful and valuable book for parents and teenagers. The content, the style and the visual presentation are terrific. Although I am a still a teenager on the inside, the mirror reminds me that I am over 50 on the outside. From this wise viewpoint, I recommend this book as helpful to parents and children as a way to encourage more conversation between generations. For example, the chapter "When They Hold the Car Over Your Head" reminds teens that parents believe 100% in this equation: Teenager-Car=At Their Mercy. If you, as the parent or the teen don't agree with one of Sarah's suggested solutions - come up with one together. Great out loud reading while on your car road trip as a family - just don't let your teenager drive!
A Hilarious Book on Being a Teen May 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Before you were born, your parents probably read books like "What To Expect When You're Expecting", among other parenting books and magazines. You're still here so they obviously worked but now you're a teenager. You want a cellphone. You want to go on a date. You want FREEDOM. But your parents hold the key to all of it and they don't want to give it you.
How To Raise Your Parents is a how-to guide to convincing your parents why you really do need a cell phone, learing "Parent Lingo", and avoiding future embarrassment the next time your boyfriend come over.
I found How To Raise Your Parents a hilarious book. Many of the tatics explained seem like they might actually work and I've actually tried a few of them. Sarah talks directly to the teen reader as she explains everything and it's written in a style that I'm sure every teen would enjoy. So whether or not you feel the need to train your parents, I suggest you pick up a copy of How To Raise Your Parents when you see it!
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