You Want to Do What?: Instant Answers to Your Parenting Dilemmas

When can your child legally get a job? When can she or he babysit the kid next door? Tackling the trickiest problems head on, Karen Sullivan explains when it is safe, appropriate, necessary, or even normal for children to do certain things. As your children enter their teenage years and want more independence, the questions multiply. Offering reliable guidance and information instantly, Karen draws on developmental, advisory, legal, and statistical information to set out the facts and offer a reasoned solution. Her informed, no-nonsense, common-sense approach to parenting allows you to make decisions quickly and with confidence. And if you need to say "no" to your teenager, You Want to Do What? gives you the best reasons to explain why.