This is an advice book for teens to learn how to manage their difficult family members (especially parents) to their best advantage. It is also a book that could be useful for all ages since many people never escape their teen year trauma. The author offers a shift in thinking about one's struggles and how to subtly manipulate people so that the reader will have better tools to smoothly sail past normal headaches and heartaches associated with family life. These tools are usefully applied to future bosses, teachers, and other grown-ups in one's life because so much of what affects us is our initial family life. This book is humorous and creative and will rub off on readers in unexpected ways because it is gearing each reader to take advantage of their situation, even if it seems terrible. There is an uplifting message for readers because no situation stays the same forever and with practical information about how to create individual emotional agency that can address the woes that teens face every day with style, grace, and energy. This book endorses the concept that teens are smarter than your average person. They deserve to have the kind of relationships they want in their lives this includes parents. It is not so much about pitting parents against kids or visa-versa; it is more like having insight into the people around us so that we might be able to make them work with our ideas.