Advice from an Experienced Parent Educator and Child Development Professor Tips to save parents and teens a lot of pain. Tools to feel competent as a parent of a teenager. Engaging stories with simple lessons for parenting your teen. Simple messages that all teens need to hear to grow up emotionally healthy. Knowledge of what all teens are experiencing developmentally. Advice on how to navigate important and difficult conversations with your teens. Information that the average educated person does not know about teenagers. Examples of how to shift from conflict with your teen into responsiveness and enduring connection. Ways to foster your teen's success in life and build a asting parent-child bond. When teens hear these messages, they always say, "I wish my parents knew this."