If you’ve worried about how your reactions to your children’s behavior will shape or shatter their self-concept, self-confidence, and erase any hope of their future success, you’re not alone. In fact, a 12 year study links the 83% of Teenagers who become increasingly distant, hostile and ‘cruel by design’ to how you communicate, relate to, and discipline your child. It reveals the two hidden factors every parent should know to avoid trapping their child in the emotional prison that leaves them ill-equipped to reach their goals. Quickly falling into the position as a ‘book that had to be written’, How To Build Up Your Child Instead Of Repairing Your Teenager renowned as a practical, comprehensive, and powerful guide on how to parent effectively in our overwhelming modern times. Best-selling author, professional speaker, and prolific success icon transforms lives with his 53rd book alongside co-expert Alec Forstrom whose 12 years of research and studying parental behavior culminate to reveal a breakthrough in parenting psychology. Together they break down to the real meat of Forstrom’s 12 year study, revealing how your child’s future success, and self-worth hangs in the balance of your ability to communicate, inject self-confidence, and develop an unbreakable love-bond relationship. In fact, these three key factors are directly connected to how quickly your teen reaches for you when they face a problem, or challenge, and how well they fair their teenage years is directly tied to the strength of your love-bond relationship. The building blocks of any accomplishment in adolescence is confidence but before you begin to rebuild, you must understand what’s knocking your child’s house of confidence down, which can only happen when you stop and think about the challenges you currently face. How frequently do you find yourself confronted by the following challenges? * Your children disobey you and “act out”; in response you lash out uncontrollably, then feel guilty and realize you should have handled the situation differently. * Your children keep dodging their responsibility despite your threats becoming more intense, you feel frustrated and take the responsibility back. * Your children are becoming more reliant on you to help them with their homework & chores. You realize they are more than capable of completing them independently, but what can you do? * Your children often ‘test’ you, pushing their limits & embarrassing you in public, or when friends and family are present. * You blame your child’s tantrums on the fact that you are a single parent, rationalizing to escape the true reality of your situation. * You fear how your children will behave as teenagers when they are already out of control at such an early age. * Your children text 133+ times a day, ‘tweet’ at the dinner table, or spend hours a day on Facebook & Instagram, affecting your ability to hold their attention. Now, congratulate yourself for taking the first step to solving these problems, its time to understand… * The Rewards you’ll experience when you control your temper, even after your child misbehaves & what you can expect if you continue to lose control. * #1 reason why you should spend more time listening than talking & appreciate the profound value of your children’s opinions. * The need to keep your sense of humor & the magic that develops between you & your child when you allow them to freely express their emotions.