Bibliograph

A Survival Guide to Parenting Teens, Talking to Your Kids About Sexting, Drinking, Drugs, and Other Things That Freak You Out

Type

Label

A Survival Guide to Parenting Teens, Talking to Your Kids About Sexting, Drinking, Drugs, and Other Things That Freak You Out

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A Survival Guide to Parenting Teens

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

877768757

Sub title

Talking to Your Kids About Sexting, Drinking, Drugs, and Other Things That Freak You Out

Summary

Defiant toddlers... Back talking gradeschoolers... Nothing is as challenging as the landmines encountered by parents of teenagers. Online bullying, sexting, hook ups, pot smoking, depression--what parent knows how to handle these explosive problems? A Survival Guide to Parenting Teens offers the solutions. Covering a broad range of issues--80 different topics in all--this straight-talking guide helps parents understand why teenagers behave the way they do. Parenting expert Joani Geltman reveals what they are thinking and feeling--and what develop mental factors are involved. She then explains

Table Of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Just Tell Me what to do About . . . Raising a Teen; 1. Deflection and Denial: Your Teen's Main Defense Mechanisms; 2. My Teenage Clone: The Power of Conformity; 3. Getting your Teen up in the Morning: Strategies for Eliminating the Daily Fight from the Morning Routine; 4. You can't Always Get what you Want: The Demanding and Entitled Teen; 5. Too Much Time on their Hands: The Busier the Teen, the More Motivated; 6. The Power of Puberty: Changing Body, Changing Brain

Target audience

adult

Classification

Contributor