Christina Botto
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Parenting Teens Expert
Christina Botto Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Parenting Teenagers - Help With Teenagers
- Best Sellers
- Help Me With My Teenager!, Showing Your Teen That You Care
- Career Focus
- Author and Coach
- Affiliation
- National PTA, National Writer's Association
For over 20 years, Christina Botto has been helping parents and teens break free of the constant battles and destructive habits that have left their relationships in shambles.
Her work as a counselor, mediator, and advisor to hundreds of families over the years has given her a thorough understanding of why teenagers act the way they do, how to motivate teens, and how to approach teenagers in order to avoid conflict.
Christina Botto Books
Help Me With My Teenager! A Step-by-Step Guide for Parents that Works
http://www.amazon.com/Teenager-Step---step-Guide-Parents-ebook/dp/B005BYWB98/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1445432105&sr=1-1&keywords=Christina+Botto
Troubled Teenagers - Identifying and Dealing with Tough Issues
http://www.amazon.com/Troubled-Teenagers-Identifying-Dealing-Issues-ebook/dp/B005G91UW2/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1445432105&sr=1-3&keywords=Christina+Botto
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Parenting Teenagers - Dealing with Peer Pressure
Your teenager faces several areas of peer pressure. What makes it even harder for your teenager is that most parents do not understand the depths to which these pressures go. Cigarettes and Alcohol Cigarettes and alcohol more than likely will be among the first areas where your teenager will have to face peer pressure. With movies and television flashing images of underage smoking and drinking, most teenagers are shown only the more enjoyable and funny side of these habits.
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Teenagers and MySpace
The History of MySpace The MySpace phenomenon began in 2003, when an Internet visionary and UCLA graduate named Tom Anderson reclaimed the moribund myspace.com domain. Prior to Anderson’s initiative, myspace.com was a file sharing forum. The original Web site had to be disbanded in 2001 due to a poor ROI and lack of general consumer interest. Anderson's vision of MySpace as a place where kids could network and form their own communities manifested in a huge way.
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Dealing With the Stubborn and Argumentative Teen
You might be surprised to hear that very few teenagers actually like to argue with their parents. It makes your teen feel unimportant and misunderstood. Some teens will walk away from an argument throwing "You just don't understand!" your way, while others stubbornly keep trying to get you to hear what they are saying - and parent and teen wind up in a heated argument. Arguments drive people apart, and you and your teen are no exception.
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Life After Drug Rehab
Drug abuse among teens is a growing concern. In Troubled Teenagers – Identifying and Dealing with Tough Issues we discuss the signs as well as the reasons why teens abuse drugs and alcohol. As with any disease, early detection increases the chance for a full recovery and a drug and alcohol free ...
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Your Teenager's First Year At College
The first year at college is an extremely stressful time for both the parent as well as your teenager. Your teen is truly leaving home for the first time. He's also leaving his friends and a world that he's lived in and felt comfortable with for years. For most teenagers their first year ...
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Communicating with Your Teenager
Communication is the most important element in building a successful relationship with your teenager. The expression, “It is not what you say, but how you say it,” has never been more true or more applicable than here. As we talk with our teens, we can either give them a sense of compassion, understanding, and support; or we can convey to them that we are disappointed and angry about what they did, and that they aren’t doing what we told them to. Handling and improving communication with teenagers is not an easy process.
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Teens and Depression
One minute your teenager will be laughing and joking along with you and the next he is in a fit of rage, yelling or crying with no warning or apparent cause. Mood swings are normal with all teenagers, but how do you know when mood swings turn into depression? Teenagers have so much to deal with ...
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Eating Disorders in Teens
Eating disorders have long been a serious problem among people of all ages. However, this disease usually begins somewhere in the pre-teen stages of life, and although many adolescent boys suffer with this disorder, it usually affects and is much more severe in young girls. People who do ...
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Troubled Teenagers – Identifying and Dealing With Tough Issues
Teenagers need help and guidance, but it can sometimes be difficult for parents to recognize when to intervene in their teen’s life. Today’s teenagers face different problems and challenges than those you experienced as a teen. Emotional pain and distress can be expressed in many different ways. Some are healthy, some are not. Being able to tell the difference between normal teenage behavior and self-destructive, hurtful behavior is crucial. Warning signs of a troubled teen: • Talking about running away • Being more secretive and an extreme desire for privacyr
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Parenting teenagers doesn't have to be frustrating!
Contacting Christina Botto
email: helpwithteens@gmail.com
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Christina Botto, author of Help Me With My Teenager! A Step-by-Step Guide for Parents that Works writes with a clear purpose – to help parents.
Her book is filled with strategies and useful “real world” advice that you can put to use today. By knowing what moves and motivates your teen, you will end your frustration and start to build a mutually supportive and respectful relationship with your teenager - and still be in charge.
Christina Botto understands how difficult the teen years can be. She explains in her book that often your teenager may feel as if you don’t really care about what they are doing.
Botto takes this assumption and shows the reader how to build a trusting, loving relationship between you and your teenage child. Her guide will show you how to reassure your teenager that they are loved and that you care about what they are interested in.
Christina Botto's new book, Troubled Teenagers - Identifying and Dealing with Tough Issues, focuses on discovering and/or dealing with a teen that gets involved with drugs, alcohol, gangs, or "cutting". Parents of teens will learn how to identify any such problems and how to help their teen to overcome them.
Although Ms. Botto is retired and no longer maintains her own website, her books are available on Barnes & Noble and Amazon's Nook.