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Altered Loves: Mothers and Daughters During Adolescence

Terri Apter

Examines the mother-daughter relationship during adolescence, discusses how mothers influence their daughters’ behavior, and looks at the role of adolescence in the development of personality.

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Professional Progress: Why Women Still Don’t Have Wives

Terri Apter

This book questions women’s slow progress towards equality. Many women do succeed in combining motherhood with career success, but they do so by escaping set patterns both at work and…

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Passing Judgment: Praise and Blame in Everyday Life

Terri Apter

Terri Apter reveals how everyday judgments impact our relationships and how praise, blame and shame shape our sense of self.

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The Myth of Maturity: What Teenagers Need from Parents to Become Adults

Terri Apter

Parents and young adults alike should benefit from the advice in Apter’s insightful book. -Washington Post

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The Confident Child: Raising Children to Believe in Themselves

Terri Apter

Raising confident, motivated and caring children is a parent’s greatest challenge. Drawing on the author’s research on children and parents, this guide based on emotional coaching helps parents raise children…

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The Sister Knot: Why We Fight, Why We’re Jealous and Why We’ll Love Each Other No Matter What

Terri Apter

Drawing on compelling interviews and new research, this book considers the many aspects of the sister relationship. It explains with reference to psychological and biological evidence the need to fight…

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Difficult Mothers: Understanding and Overcoming Their Power

Terri Apter

An essential work for readers seeking compassionate, wise guidance about the powerful relationship between mothers and their sons and daughters.

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The Teen Interpreter: A Guide to the Challenges and Joys of Raising Adolescents

Terri Apter

An insightful, revealing and practical guide to adolescents’ inner world, from a renowned psychologist

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The Teen Interpreter: A Guide to the Challenges and Joys of Raising Adolescents

Terri Apter

The Teen Interpreter is a generous roadmap for enjoying the most challenging, and rewarding, parenting years.

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You Don’t Really Know Me: Why Mothers and Daughters Fight and How Both Can Win

T.E. Apter

Mothers and teenage daughters fight more that any other child-parent pair. On average a mother and a teenage daughter have an argument every two and a half days.

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