Things We Wish Our Parents Knew: Anonymous Letters from Teenagers That Inspire Courageous Conversations

“Don't leave us alone. Keep it up until we let you in.” Parents today, on a never-ending search for ways to empathize with, connect with, and guide our teenage children, often forget to start at the beginning: by asking what our children need us to know. Author Michael Chiasson has hit upon a brilliant cross-generational concept-teens writing anonymous short letters to parents about their fears and desires-that can be immensely helpful to both the kids and their caregivers, who often approa...