Places for a parent to go to get some solace...
Places to ponder and find out you are not alone.
notMYkid, a national non-profit organization, is devoted to
educating individuals and communities about behavioral health
issues facing our teens today, believing that through education
we can achieve prevention.
www.notmykid.org
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Consultants or Struggling Teens been used regarding parenting
your boy or girl?
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Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to
the Mall: A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager Amazon.com
Book Review This is a survival guide for parents who find
themselves marooned among volatile and incomprehensible aliens on
Planet Teen. Area maps cover the obvious ground--there are
chapters on school, sex, suicide, and so on--but it's the title
of Chapter 2, "What They Do and Why," that best captures the
book's spirit and technique. Anthony Wolf's modus operandi is not
so much to make pronouncements about what parents should do, as
to explain adolescent behavior in a way that's bound to leave
parents with a changed view of the plausible options. Wolf is a
clinical psychologist, and his writing is clear--even witty--and
he doesn't resort to jargon. The expository text is punctuated
with snatches of illustrative dialogue, which serve as concrete
examples and help parents learn how to see, anticipate, and avoid
"bad strategies." (One key mistake is getting dragged into no-win
conflicts instead of having the wisdom to shut up at the moment
when shutting up would be most effective--albeit the least
satisfying--thing to do.) There are also some nicely tongue-in-
cheek samples of "ideal" communication--the stuff we imagine
might get said if only we were better parents. After one such
rosily cooperative and considerate interchange between a father
and his adolescent son, Wolf offers the following two-edged
comfort: "The above conversation has never happened. Never. Not
in the whole history of the world." Message: Parenting
adolescents is inherently difficult. Don't judge your efforts by
otherworldly standards.
Amazon link to the book listing
WHY DO THEY ACT THAT WAY?
A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen
David Walsh, Ph.D. With Nat Bennett
Simple fact of life: No one makes it through the teenage years
unscathed-not the teens and not their parents. But now there's
expert help for both generations in this groundbreaking new guide
for surviving the drama of adolescence.
In WHY Do They Act That Way? National Institute on Media and the
Family's president and award-winning psychologist Dr. David Walsh
explains exactly what happens to the human brain on the path from
childhood into adolescence and adulthood. Revealing the latest
scientific findings in easy-to-understand terms, Dr. Walsh shows
why moodiness, quickness to anger and to take risks,
miscommunication, fatigue, territoriality, and other familiar
teenage behavior problems are so common-all are linked to
physical changes and growth in the adolescent brain.
A book review and summary on mediafamily.org
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