Description:
Power Up Your Parenting is a conversational and comprehensive guide for parents of teen and preteen girls. In an engaging style, author, Erica Rood, applies over a decade of experience coaching teens and young adults to reveal what parents can do to best support their daughters during one of the most challenging and exciting stages of life. Rood empowers parents with a unique look into the world of teens and offers a step-by-step approach to supporting girls through personal, social, and academic challenges.
Rood addresses the most common teen challenges and parent concerns while offering thoughtful advice. This book provides effective parenting strategies including how to:
- Get through to your teen.
- Guide your teen through friendship and school challenges.
- Foster a healthy self-esteem so your teen can connect with her purpose and passion.
- Promote your teen's sense of responsibility, resilience, compassion, and gratitude.
Rood's favorite coaching tools, designed for both teens and parents, help the relationship to thrive with a lasting impact.
Brief description: Erica is the founder of Inspire Balance Coaching. She has over fifteen years of experience coaching and teaching parents, teens, and young adults. Her work has been featured in San Diego Family magazine, The Balanced Mom magazine, and EPIC Conscious Living magazine. Power Up Your Parenting is her first book.
Review Quotes:
"Informative and practical. This book is just what my family needed. It is obvious Erica has seen first hand the challenges today's teens and parents are facing in this ever-changing world. I am looking forward to incorporating these techniques into my day-to-day parenting in hopes of raising two confident, self-aware, and most importantly, happy daughters."
- Wendy Schott, Denver, NC
"Power Up Your Parenting is a must read and provides invaluable insight of tips and tools on how a parent can best communicate with their teenage daughter. This book is an absolute go-to guide" for any parent and will help them to navigate how to communicate with their teenager and better understand the stress and anxiety that teenagers experience these days and how to best address any hard conversations that a parent might need to have with their daughter."
- Chad Freeman, Castle Rock, CO
"Great ideas, tips, and tricks to engage our duaghters in finding their authentic selves. Erica is helping engineer a whole generation of parents who support and empower the individuality of today's teens."
- Jennifer Kaufman, mother, Larkspur, CO
"Power Up Your Parenting has many tools for parents to help their daughters navigate the social, emotional, and academic challenges of being a teen. Erica Rood's approach is conversational, practical, and down-to-earth. She affirms a relationship between parents and their teenage daughters that embodies empathy, gratitude, structure, support, and open communications."
- Julie Watts, San Diego, CA
Power Up Your Parenting outlines a practical and compassionate approach to parenting teens. Erica offers a unique perspective for guiding teens through various challenges. As a father of three girls, I found this book extremely helpful and insightful! Thank you Erica!
- Mike Nikzad, Dallas TX
"Thank you Erica for taking the time to teach parents the wisdom and compassion you bring to your coaching. Power Up Your Parenting enables parents to step into the shoes of their daughter's coach through relation examples and prgmatic solutions."
- Celia Szchuk, San Diego, CA