Ten Best Gifts for Your Teen (will be o/p when gone)

Raising teens with love and understanding is perhaps more challenging today than ever. While adolescence can sometimes be as frightening and challenging for parents as it is for their children, a strong parent-teen relationship can be both influential and rewarding.

Patt and Steve Saso combine their expertise as a counselor and high school teacher with hard-knocks wisdom from the parenting trenches to offer practical and engaging guidance. They stress that parents are the only ones who can offer ten gifts that make all the difference for their teens.

• Respect
• Receptivity
• Responsibility
• Room
• Reconciliation
• Role-Modeling
• Revelation of Self
• Resolve
• Release

Here are both the encouragement and skills parents need to build strong relationships with their teens.

About the Author:

Patt and Steve Saso officially combined their talents in 1982 when they married in Oakland, California at the Bishop O'Dowd High School chapel. Steve, a high school educator and administrator for nearly 30 years, and Patt, a marriage and family therapist, have worked hand-in-hand throughout their lives together, giving workshops to married couples and parents. They turned their presentations into a full-time business in 1989 when they formed Saso Seminars, an organization that assists parents and educators in raising responsible children.

Often invited to speak at PTA meetings and conventions for professional organizations that address family issues, the Sasos have facilitated over 100 conferences and workshops. As the parents of preteens and teenagers of their own, the Sasos incorporate their own parenting successes and failures into their work.

Steve is currently chairperson of the Religious Studies Department at Bellarmine College Prep in San Jose, California. Patt is the executive director of Saso Seminars. They are the parents of three teenagers.