How do you raise preteens to the best of your ability, encourage their responsible and caring actions, and maintain a strong sense of self? This nurturing, research-based guide offers tips, checklists, and solutions to common parenting topics, including preteen friendships, clothes and hair preferences, after-school hours, crushes, and finding a work/home balance. Sympathetic, respectful, and grounded in the Developmental Assets, this handbook provides abundant "on-the-job" support to parents.