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Best-selling authors Charlene Giannetti and Margaret Sagarese have authored six books on young adolescents including The Roller-Coaster Years, Parenting 911, What Are You Doing in There? Good Parents, Tough Times, Cliques: 8 Steps to Help Your Child Survive the Social Jungle, and Boy Crazy! Keeping Your Daughter’s Feet on the Ground When Her Head Is in the Clouds. They have been on the TODAY show (NBC), The Early Show (CBS), CNN, NSNBC, NPR, and many other TV and radio programs and have been quoted in many publications. Their new book for National Middle School Association, Keeping Cliques and Bullies From Invading Your School: 6 Roads Teachers Can Take to Drive Out a Culture of Cruelty, will be published in 2007. These presenters bring practical information on a wide variety of topics, including cyberbullying, dealing with difficult parents, and understanding young adolescents. Their presentations are lively, fun, and informative.

Topics:

• Cliques
• Bullying
• How to handle difficult parents
• Cyber bullying
• Adolescent issues
• Turning parents from critics to allies
• Parent issues