7 Things Your Teenager Won't Tell You And How to Talk About Them Anyway

YES, YOU CANTALK WITH YOUR TEENAGER Every teenager keeps secrets. If you're like most parents, you worry about what your kids don't tell you. In this guide to keeping paceand peacewith teens, authors Jenifer Lippincott and Robin Deutsch offer a deceptively simple plan for talking to your kids that's based on a simple set of rules: Teens need to stay safe, show respect, and keep in touch.

Jenifer Marshall Lippincott has worked with adolescents for more than two decades as a teacher, dean, and learning consultant. She holds a master's degree in human development from Harvard University. She lives in Weston, Massachusetts, with her husband and two adolescent daughters. Robin M. Deutsch, Ph.D., is the co-director of the Children and the Law program in the department of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. As a practicing psychologist, she sees adolescents and parents in individual and family psychotherapy. She is the parent of two adolescents.