Developed in 1999, The Adolescent Owner's Manual was initially designed for parent's of adolescents who have committed felonies and are involved in the Juvenile Court System.  Following a progressive design building through six, three hour classes, the original program focused on the practical, common sense parenting strategies and tactics that have proven essential if parent's are to help their kids get out of trouble and back on the right track.  

Today, after over five years of hands-on use, validation and refinement The Adolescent Owner's Manual is available to parents across the country in book form! 

It is available for use in the privacy of your home with individual instruction and support at each step in the process.  It is available to parents just like you.  Parents who have tried tough love, counseling, medication, and other parenting programs with little or no result.

Focusing on such topics as:

   1.   Principles of Effective Parenting

   2.   What is Wrong With Kids Today

   3.   Behavioral Drivers
            Let's Focus on One Problem at a Time
            Problems, Problems and more Problems
            The Matter at Hand

   4.   Expectations and Consequences
            Just What is it That We're Trying to Do?
            Rules for Making Rules
            Consequences! Consequences! Consequences!

   5.   What Style of Parent are You
            What Style of Parent are You?
            How you Parent Affects Your Kid!
            Toward Authoritative Parenting

   6.   Implementing Search Institute's Developmental Assets

The Adolescent Owner's Manual is a step-by-step guide to parenting kids who don't want to be parented.  

In doing so, The Adolescent Owner's Manual has proven uniquely effective in assisting parents struggling with angry, defiant, unmotivated, ADHD, ADD, oppositional defiant, conduct disordered, drug involved, juvenile court involved, and behaviorally handicapped sons and daughters.