Before Your Teenagers Drive You Crazy, Read This!: Battlefield Wisdom for Stressed-Out Parents - Softcover

Nigel Latta has drawn on his extensive experience in family therapy and working with the country's most difficult teenagers to write the book that will save the sanity of parents everywhere. Once you've negotiated the terrors of toddlerdom and the perils of primary school you think you've got a pretty good handle on this parenting thing - then along comes Mother Nature with her horrible hormones and suddenly you're so far behind square one you're starting to wonder if this raging bundle of contradictions screaming at you was switched in the night by evil aliens. With his now trademark humour and pragmatic common sense approach, Nigel debunks the politically correct nightmare of perfect parenting and argues for sanity first - yours - and reclaiming the ground parents have lost in the great 'I'm my child's best friend' debacle.

Clinical psychologist Nigel Latta is the bestselling author of Into the Darklands: Unveiling the predators amongst us (three editions), Before Your Kids Drive You Crazy, Read This! (five international editions), and How to Have Kids and Stay Sane. A regular media commentator, he consults nationally from his Dunedin practice, has a parenting slot on National Radio and is a columnist for parenting magazines.