This is a must read for anyone who lives or works with teen girls! Lisa Damour has a delightful understanding and appreciation for teen girls and generously lets the rest of us in on all the secrets. In this book, Lisa aims to untangle the confusion of adolescent development for us and present it as seven transitions that teen girls must go through. In Untangled, Lisa aims to help parents untangle themselves from the “emotional knots we get caught in with our teenage daughters.”

My average client received less than ideal parenting. typical responses to emotion in their homes were a wide variety of ways to shut it down. It might have been straight up ignoring the emotion, saying they shouldn’t have that emotion, or, at best, logic, “You can always find another friend, why cry about losing this one?” Some of their parents had such big emotions themselves that the children intuitively knew that there just wasn’t any space for their own emotions.