Every parent since Adam and Eve has harbored serious doubts about their offsprings’ ability to become responsible, self-reliant adults. For many parents today, those doubts have turned to sheer panic. In Cleared for Takeoff!, Wayne Rice offers 50 clear, bite-size nuggets of wisdom to help you navigate the course and instill the four R’s—Respect, Responsibility, Resourcefulness, Reverence—into your teenager.

Cleared for Takeoff! is the handbook that will help you stay calm and confident as a parent while charting your teenager’s course to success. And, it will help you enjoy the time you have with your teenager at home a whole lot more!

Praised by national parenting experts, Raising Children You Can Live With offers practical strategies for success. Along with helpful phrases, family therapist Jamie Raser provides true-to-life scenarios of negative confrontations, then demonstrates how to turn them into positive interactions. This is the book that answers the toughest parenting questions. Is my relationship with my child "out of balance?" Am I working too hard at parenting? How does my child get to be so difficult to reason with? What do I do when my child lies? What do I do when my child seems depressed? What do I do when my child is violent? The answers to these questions and many more can be found within the comprehensive parenting guide that parents, teachers, therapists and caregivers agree is a must-have resource for anyone hoping to improve their relationships with the children and teens in their lives. This is the first in a series of as many as six books scheduled for publication over the next three years focusing specifically on parent-child interactions.