Mom, I'm Not a Kid Anymore: Navigating 25 Inevitable Conversations That Arrive Before You Know It

Sue Sanders offers a double delight: fresh, trenchant advice for parents fearing the terrible tweens, and a moving family portrait. Hard-earned wit and wisdom can be found on each and every page. Linda Keenan, author of "Suburgatory", the title behind the ABC sitcom Sue Sanders has been there, answered that, and figured out what matters most to kids and parents. (Hint: Honesty and humor loom large.) Lenore Skenazy, author of the book and blog "Free-Range Kids" "Mom, I'm Not a Kid Anymore" should be handed out to parents at every middle school orientation meeting. It's filled with the stuff parents whisper to each other or keep to themselves when it comes to raising young teens. Sue Sanders (and her daughter Lizzie) provide a common sense guide to the conversations you'll navigate through middle school and beyond. Jen Singer, MommaSaid.net, author of "You're a Good Mom (and Your Kids Aren't So Bad Either)" Compulsively readable, heartfelt, and funny, this book is a savvy best friend I will turn to again and again as my kids grow up. Sanders deftly aces the dance all parents engage in when counseling their kids about the rites of passage of adolescence and her transparency regarding her own hair-raising youthful shenanigans is a welcome tonic of 'real' seldom found in this genre. Candace Walsh, author of "Licking the Spoon: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Identity" A fun and often astute look at the ways that our teenage children drive us mad and to a new place of clarity. Sanders offers real answers on how to get through the looking glass of our children all in one piece. Suzanne Finnamore, bestselling author of Otherwise Engaged and Split Sanders deeply engages with all the sticky (and some of the most heartening) situations of parenting a young adult. She guides us through terra incognita with grace, wit, compassion, and a whole lot of smarts. Her compass is true. Melissa Holbrook Pierson, author of "The Perfect Vehicle" and "The Place You Love Is Gone"