“Thank goodness, it’s not me,” I thought to myself watching the psychologist being interviewed on TV about what parents should say to their teenagers about the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson. It was a tragedy—and not the first of its kind either—touching the delicate topics of racial inequality and law enforcement justice. It had begun with a single shooting and had quickly progressed into weeks of 24-7 news coverage, riots, nationwide protests and FBI involvement. I watched and realized that very well could have been me on TV. After all, my co-author Karen Friedman and I are updating Stop Struggling With Your Teen (Viking Penguin; 1988).
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