How is a parent to know what to say - and when and how to say it - when talking to teens about all those big, scary topios that are tough to discuss? In researching this book for the past 3 years, 17-year old Rhett Godfrey interviewed hundreds of teenagers about how their parents talk to them about the big stuff': sex, drugs, privacy, school problems, cigarettes and alcohol, divorce and remarriage, and self-expression. Now Rhett reports back - in frank and surprising conversation - how teens really feel about these touchy subjects. What's more, he shares the best methods that parents have used to open up dialogue behind closed doors. Rhett's mother, #1 New York Times bestselling author, then helps parents make sense out of what teens say they want from parents - from her own experience as well as from interviews with experts. In the first book to ever take us inside the teen mind to help us understand these topics their point of view, parents will discover how to establish an environment of honesty and open dialogue in their homes so they can better guide their kids through the rocky road of adolescence by understanding.