Step Das Elternbuch: Leben mit Teenagern

STEP, "Living with Teenagers," helps parents meet the educational challenges during the teenage years and build a better relationship with their teenager – both in everyday difficulties and in larger parenting issues. The approach underlying the STEP parenting book "Living with Teenagers" is affirmative and appreciative. STEP provides self-help during the teenage years:

• STEP imparts essential information to parents about this developmental phase as a time of change, including the influence of technology and media, peer pressure, substance use, and sex.
• STEP assists parents in defining their role as parents of teenagers. Parents learn to let go while providing guidance, linking freedoms and rights with responsibilities and duties, and using the time spent with their teenager as an opportunity to appreciate them as an independent person with whom they can build and maintain a fulfilling and sustainable relationship. By fostering a relationship based on mutual respect and appreciation, parents promote the positive development of their teenager.
• With STEP, parents learn skills for interacting with their teenager, giving them the chance to grow up encouraged and healthy, full of self-confidence, cooperative, and capable of resolving conflicts, thus becoming a responsible adult.