I bought this book years a...go when my kids were teenagers and now I'm buying for a friend. I highly reccomend this book. There are chapters to help parents prepare themselves for the day your teen starts driving all the way through to the time they graduate. There is even a chapter on "Senioritis". It also helps you prepare for the day that you take them off to college, what to expect, and how to get through that. The book also discusses how things are different when your kids come home for their first vacation and the summers in between college. It addresses how siblings might be feeling about their big brother or sister leaving home. It's the kind of book that you can read a chapter at a time when you are approaching that time in your teens life. This book is no longer in print, but it is well worth the time to search the net and find a used copy. I read portions of the book to my husband while we were driving our son to college a 1000 miles away from home. It gave us good insight into what to expect when we got there and suggestions about saying good-bye. The book talked about things that we had never even thought of. You'll probably cry through some of the chapters, especially if you are dreading the day that you leave your baby at college and say good-bye, but this book helps you to put it all in perspective. The author had 3 children and talks about her experiences with all 3. I LOVE this book!