Includes index.

Part 1 Your Child: The New-Millennium Adolescent 1 -- Chapter 1 Adolescent Brain 3 -- Chapter 2 Your Adolescent's World: Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll Like You Never Saw 19 -- Chapter 3 Peer Influence and Your Child 41 -- Chapter 4 Adolescent Change 53 -- Chapter 5 Adolescent Insanity: What's Normal, What's Not 63 -- Part 2 New-Millennium Parents: Understanding Your Role and Accepting Your Challenge 103 -- Chapter 6 Grieving the Death of Your Sweet, Compliant Child 105 -- Chapter 7 Parental Self-Examination: How Your Behavior and Personality Affect Who Your Adolescent Is 115 -- Chapter 8 Family Matters: Parent Teamwork, Divorce, Single Parenting, and Blended Families 137 -- Part 3 Putting It All Together: Field-Tested Strategies for Effectively Parenting Your Adolescent 163 -- Chapter 9 The 10 Commandments of Parenting Your Teen 167 -- Chapter 10 Making and Enforcing Rules and Decisions 199 -- Chapter 11 Problem-Solving Strategies: What to Do When Your Teen... 229 -- Chapter 12 Balancing Safety with Privacy: Walking the Razor's Edge 257 -- Chapter 13 Surviving Your Kid's Rage 269 -- Chapter 14 Drugs: The Dos and the Don'ts 283 -- Chapter 15 Sex and Dating: What You Need to Know 299 -- Chapter 16 Getting Help 313 -- Chapter 17 Epilogues: Coming Home 329.