Here are three books that will help you learn to discipline your teenager without losing your sanity. The key is to guide your child into learning to make the right choices in life. These books show you how to accomplish this goal, and in doing so raise a self-reliant young adult, but each suggests slightly different approaches. Each book focuses on making your child feel loved and accepted.
Love equals security or high self-esteem.
High self-esteem equals happy, emotionally healthy young adults. The key is the parent-child relationship. Basically, a child's inner happiness is linked to primary and secondary happiness. If a child's needs are not met, if his parents do not display love and caring, the child becomes frustrated, feels deprived, and learns to cause himself unhappiness because he links unhappiness to what his parents want for him. Secondary happiness begins in the second year and should be stable by the end of adolescence.