| Author: | Jean Walbridge | ISBN: | 9781301182404 |
| Publisher: | Jean Walbridge | Publication: | October 10, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jean Walbridge |
| ISBN: | 9781301182404 |
| Publisher: | Jean Walbridge |
| Publication: | October 10, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
In a letter to Ms. Walbridge's web site, ParentingAdolescents.com, a parent complains that her 13-year-old has "changed into a new creature recently." "Surviving Your Child's Adolescence" helps parents understand and manage both those "new creatures" they find living in their children's skins and their own emotional reactions to all of the changes brought by adolescence. The author is a clinical social worker, parent, and former teacher who uses her years of experience in working with teens and their families to take parents like that letter-writer (and anyone else who lives or works with teens) by the hand and lead them down the path to understanding the adolescent mind and behavior and why they bother us adults so much.
Organized into sections on Separation/Autonomy, Exploring Identity, Respecting Their Privacy, Setting Limits, and Seeking Help When Needed, the book is full of anecdotes taken from the author's own parenting experiences (she has two grown daughters and a grandson), which make the text lively and personal. Each section is introduced with a quotation from a letter written to the author at ParentingAdolescents.com by a bewildered or desperate parent or teen. The excerpts from these letters give us the authentic voices of people who are traversing this wilderness of adolescence as parent or as child; some of these voices make us laugh, some cry. They are all interesting and worth hearing, like the book itself.
If you have a teenager at your house, buy this book. Drugs & alcohol, attitude, chores, academic performance, driving, lying, weird behavior, withdrawal, when to worry..."Surviving Your Child's Adolescence" is chock full of ingredients! And because it is published electronically, the reader can use the Search or Find function on his or her device to be taken instantly to any topic of interest.
Clinical social worker Constance Kintzler of Chicago writes, "Jean Walbridge has written an incredibly useful book for both clinicians and parents. She manages to imbed sophisticated clinical concepts in direct and clear language so that it is understandable and sensible for the lay reader and serves as a useful way of translating these concepts for the clinician. I have been in private practice for over 25 years and found myself fully engaged in reading her book. I have used it with my patients who have reported back to me that they have been grateful for the suggestion and have found the information extremely useful."
Dr. Eileen Paris, Los Angeles, writes, "I purchased your ebook. I am about half way through. It is an excellent resource to recommend to parents. I could tell we are kindred spirits when I read the section on privacy!"
Readers can get the book at a substantial discount by visiting the author's website, ParentYourAdolescent.
In a letter to Ms. Walbridge's web site, ParentingAdolescents.com, a parent complains that her 13-year-old has "changed into a new creature recently." "Surviving Your Child's Adolescence" helps parents understand and manage both those "new creatures" they find living in their children's skins and their own emotional reactions to all of the changes brought by adolescence. The author is a clinical social worker, parent, and former teacher who uses her years of experience in working with teens and their families to take parents like that letter-writer (and anyone else who lives or works with teens) by the hand and lead them down the path to understanding the adolescent mind and behavior and why they bother us adults so much.
Organized into sections on Separation/Autonomy, Exploring Identity, Respecting Their Privacy, Setting Limits, and Seeking Help When Needed, the book is full of anecdotes taken from the author's own parenting experiences (she has two grown daughters and a grandson), which make the text lively and personal. Each section is introduced with a quotation from a letter written to the author at ParentingAdolescents.com by a bewildered or desperate parent or teen. The excerpts from these letters give us the authentic voices of people who are traversing this wilderness of adolescence as parent or as child; some of these voices make us laugh, some cry. They are all interesting and worth hearing, like the book itself.
If you have a teenager at your house, buy this book. Drugs & alcohol, attitude, chores, academic performance, driving, lying, weird behavior, withdrawal, when to worry..."Surviving Your Child's Adolescence" is chock full of ingredients! And because it is published electronically, the reader can use the Search or Find function on his or her device to be taken instantly to any topic of interest.
Clinical social worker Constance Kintzler of Chicago writes, "Jean Walbridge has written an incredibly useful book for both clinicians and parents. She manages to imbed sophisticated clinical concepts in direct and clear language so that it is understandable and sensible for the lay reader and serves as a useful way of translating these concepts for the clinician. I have been in private practice for over 25 years and found myself fully engaged in reading her book. I have used it with my patients who have reported back to me that they have been grateful for the suggestion and have found the information extremely useful."
Dr. Eileen Paris, Los Angeles, writes, "I purchased your ebook. I am about half way through. It is an excellent resource to recommend to parents. I could tell we are kindred spirits when I read the section on privacy!"
Readers can get the book at a substantial discount by visiting the author's website, ParentYourAdolescent.
