The 5 Foundations of Successful Teens

Raising teens is challenging. Yet it doesn’t have to be impossible, and Dr. Mark J. Luciano offers parents easy-to-follow advice to surmount the biggest hurdles and raise responsible, successful young adults.

Based on research as well as his family-therapy practice experience, Luciano helps teens—and their parents—develop powerful qualities like confidence, independence, initiative, the desire and ability to take risks and achieve goals, identity, and trust. Readers explore five types of underperforming teens and learn new ways to communicate with them. Luciano teaches readers how to use a Connection Response to speak with their teens in a way that makes them feel heard and understood.

The 5 Foundations of Successful Teens–How to Ignite Your Underperforming Teen’s Self-Reliance and Academic Success is a powerful tool that belongs on every parent’s bookshelf. Short, to-the point, yet jam-packed with interesting stories and advice, Luciano’s work is a joy to read and simple to implement. I learned a lot about how to communicate with my children and will keep this book handy for when they reach their teens.