Excerpt from Chapter 1
Why Is She So Difficult to Deal With? Understanding and Communicating With Adolescent Girls

AS A PARENT, HOW CAN I EFFECTIVELY WALK THE TIGHTROPE BETWEEN TOO LITTLE CONTROL AND TOO MUCH CONTROL?
—---Natalie R.

For most parents, the issue of control during adolescence has to do with decisions their teen makes and which decisions they still make. Typically, these struggles for control are about things like curfew, spending money, driving, hanging out with friends, whether your daughter is allowed to be at an unsupervised party, allowed to have her boyfriend over when no adult is home, or allowed to get rides with people you don't know. So, issues of control can arise in many different circumstances, and parents are often faced with trying to walk the tightrope between maintaining or giving up control.

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