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Check out these stories on Sarah and How to Raise Your Parents: A Teen Girl's Survival Guide
The Today Show
Sarah talks with Today Show co-host Ann Curry and iVillage's parenting expert Michele Borba about raising parents
Newsweek
"Eight Top Teen Health Hazards" - advice from Sarah for teens and parents on everything from tattoos to getting enough sleep
CBS News "Up to the Minute"
Watch me talk with newscaster Meg Oliver about teen/parent negotiation and technology basics
Teen Vogue
Exactly what you need to know about mother / daughter relationships.
Los Angeles Times
"Through questionnaires and interviews with thousands of teenagers, Burningham, now 28, came up with a funny and practical guide for negotiating the minefield of parent-teen life."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Burningham's How to Raise Your Parents is an ambitious 144-pager that tackles the Gordian knot that is the relationship between a teenage girl and her parents...Burningham's book addresses the void by offering girls detailed strategies on talking to parents about boyfriends, piercings, tattoos, cell phones and curfews. She also translates parentspeak."
Publishers Weekly
"Burningham starts out strong in this book of advice to the adolescent...Much of the best advice, including Burningham's tactics for negotiation in general, presumes a natural maturity on the part of the readers - but if they can internalize her words, they'll be set for life."
School Library Journal
"The fun, magazine look of the book, which categorizes parents into five types (and provides questions for readers to determine which type they have) and decodes "parentspeak," will no doubt connect with teens. Burningham is clearly an adult talking ("Parents don't like ultimatums...," "If you really want your parents to hear you, you have to treat them like real people"), but she's a very hip adult who makes sense, and teens just might want to listen to her."
New York 1 News
Watch me with parenting host Shelley Goldberg and get some advice on bridging the generation gap when it comes to music, hair dye, and driving!
Wall Street Journal
A profile on Sarah in the "Extra Bucks" column
Seattle Press
"Both mothers and daughters will find Sarah O'Leary Burningham's newest release How to Raise Your Parents to be a must read. Burningham manages to strike a balance between the two seemingly alien worlds of being a mother and of young women experiencing the baffling but hilarious trials of becoming a teen. The overall tone is wise but appropriately witty for smart teenage girls and their mothers to read, laugh and bond over. Fostering a gentle tactic, the book will undoubtedly be easily relatable for girls everywhere."
Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
An interview with me and my own parents!
McClatchy News Service (Nationally Syndicated)
"[How to Raise Your Parents] offers negotiation tips and suggestions on handling the varying parent- teen conflicts such as privacy, dating, grades, driving, and even getting them to like their music. O’Leary’s writing has a very youthful tone, which accompanied by fun illustrations, includes lists ranging from thought- provoking to silly, and stories from teens, make the book very appealing to teens and will hopefully open the door to better family communication."
Stamford Advocate (Stamford and Greenwich, CT)
A "guide to negotiating trust, boundaries and the difficult process of gaining independence for teenage girls."
Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH)
"...a fun (and helpful) book!" - Vick Mickunas, Book Reviewer
Mercer Island Reporter (Mercer Island, Bellevue and Redmond, WA)
"[How to Raise Your Parents] is full of straight talk and smart advise on dealing with the “difficult years” that every teen girl experiences. The guide covers everything from negotiation and bargaining tactics to surviving the report card storm."
Copley News Service
Advice for teens and parents on prom night!
Chattanooga Parent...
"The advice [Burningham] dishes out to her teen readers has an underlying message of responsibility and fairness..."
SmartGirlsRock.com - A rave review by real teens!
"This book is funny without being stupid, informative without being boring, and helpful while still being one of the best books I’ve ever read...This is something every teen needs on their bookshelf or, more likely, on the floor somewhere."
Book Page
"[Burningham] delivers straight-talk in a funny and fun-to read format...Armed with How to Raise Your Parents
Kirkus Reviews
"To a teen, the odds must seem stacked. With a zillion parenting books available, where's the teen-dealing-with-parents book? Sarah O'Leary Burningham's is a gingery, thoughtful retort that offers no know-when-to-hold-'em, know-when-to-fold-'em gambit. Instead, How to Raise Your Parents
Harmony Book Reviews
"I found How to Raise Your Parents a hilarious book. Many of the tatics explained seem like they might actually work and I’ve actually tried a few of them. Sarah talks directly to the teen reader as she explains everything and it’s written in a style that I’m sure every teen would enjoy. So whether or not you feel the need to train your parents, I suggest you pick up a copy of How to Raise Your Parents when you see it!
Yapping About YA
"How to Raise Your Parents gives fun and responsible advice to kids on everything from (gasp) skipping class to getting a bigger allowance."
Page Numbered
"What this book is: a survival guide (see title) for the typical teenage girl to deal with her typical teenage parents...For instance, sick of arguing with your parents about your grades? There’s a section on that. Also sections on; dating, curfew, dying your hair, getting your license, and money stuff...The book is funny too, did I mention that?"
Em's Bookshelf
"Subtitled "A Teen Girl's Survival Guide", How to Raise Your Parents is filled with helpful hints and clues about how to survive your teenage years without killing your parents. It's got everything, from how to talk about curfew to breaking the news about a bad grade to learning how to negotiate."
The Reading Zone
"How to Raise Your Parents was a nice break from the fiction I have been reading all day. It’s a cute book with different strategies for dealing with parents. After all, as Burningham points out, why should the parents get all the “how-to” books?"
Seattle Public Library - YA Blog
"[A] gem of a book...This book gives straightforward advice on all those topics while helping you keep the peace with your folks."
WORD for Teens
"I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. Some of the tips were obvious, some not so, and she does give a lot of helpful hints on how to quickly get yourself out of deep water..."
M-Teen magazine
"Great Book to read for 2008!"
More Praise:
"How to Raise Your Parents is brilliant - I wish I had a guide like this when I was a teenager...It's a terrific book. Clever and funny - and honestly helpful without being condescending or fake." -Lauren Myracle, bestselling teen author of ttfn, ttyl, and l8r g8r
"Sarah O'Leary Burningham's book, How to Raise Your Parents, is a wise and witty work for smart teenage girls. She shows teens, through example, empathetic coaching and considerable humor, how to move out of a position of defensive outrage in relation to parents. She gently encourages skillful negotiation based on an understanding of where parents are coming from, both in terms of the parents' baseline style and their potential concerns. The result should be that both parent and teen feel they can be heard and respected, even where there is disagreement. The relationship skills Sarah teaches should be useful anywhere, not just with parents.” -Penny Brooke Jameson, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist
"This book tackles difficult topics with wit and wisdom. It speaks honestly and openly to teens about the challenges of being an adolescent in today’s world. The humor and the style of writing are so appealing that the practical advice and important messages embedded throughout can be heard...As a therapist and a parent, I wish that such a book could have been available to my teenage daughters.” -Kathryn Della-Piana, LCSW, Executive Director, Family Counseling Center
