Mini P. recommends 3 guidebooks to enable parents to smoothly negotiate the bumpy road of parenting adolescents in the pandemic year

How your Personality Makes or Breaks your Child — A Self-Assessment Guide for Parents by Dr. Chayanika Singh
Publisher: Unicorn Books
Price: Rs.195

Published originally in 2013, this book advises parents to self-assess their parenting styles fairly and comprehensively and offers useful tips to manage their emotions and navigate parenthood challenges decisively and positively. It provides insightful advice on nurturing parent-child relationships that flower through the turbulent teenage years and bloom into a lifelong bond built on love and trust.

Author Dr. Chayanika Singh, a well-known clinical psychologist, outlines how cantankerous interaction between parents affects the mental well-being children. She also details several factors, both positive and negative, that exert influence over a child’s behaviour, offering much food for thought and introspection to enable parents to correct their parenting.

Un-Judge Your Teenager: Nurturing Your Teen to Unleash their Potential by Rajat Soni
Publisher: Notion Press
Price: Rs.199

In this lucidly written book, Rajat Soni, an international teen-life and parenting coach, investigates the adolescent years and the physical and emotional changes that define it. Adolescence is a confusing time for teenagers who experience a whirlwind of conflicting emotions.

In Un-Judge Your Teenager, Soni attempts to decode the mind of an adolescent and offers valuable advice to cope with common parent-teen conflicts such as managing screen time, cyber safety, negative body image, beating exam stress and excessive peer pressure. Peppered with anecdotes and practical solutions, this book provides parents simple strategies to enable adolescents to realise their full potential.

The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens (Updated for the Digital Age) by Sean Covey
Publisher: Touchstone
Price: Rs.406

Sean Covey, author of bestseller 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, provides adolescents a valuable guide to cope with six major teen challenges: gaining self-esteem, dealing with parents, making friends, being wise about sex, coping with substance abuse, succeeding at school and planning a career. From coping with peer pressure and name-calling to ethical dilemmas, the book examines major issues confronting contemporary teens, including party drugs, dating, and social media obsession.

Covey offers sage advice on managing these dilemmas and making decisions that will lead to happy and productive lives. In his impeccable style, he shows how teens can use 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens to manage and ultimately conquer the six challenges.