Discusses the difficulties of being a teenager in today's society and provides insights on how to survive adolescence and stay connected with one's parents.

A guide for parents which offers advice on how to use "love and logic" to deal with their teens, looking at effective and ineffective parenting styles, exploring development in teens, and offering thirty-three specific rules for handling everyday problems and issues most parents face during their children's teenage years.

Explains how parents can help their daughters deal with the different issues surrounding friendships, boys, gossip, and cliques as they start high school.

"How do you know if you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown? For seventeen-year-old Stacy Black, it all begins with the smashing of a window. After putting her fist through the glass, she checks into a mental hospital. Stacy hates it there but despite herself slowly realizes she has to face the reasons for her depression to stop from self-destructing. Based on the author's experiences, How I Made it to Eighteen is a frank portrait of what it's...