The most trying times in a child’s life are during their pre-teen and teen years. Even the most well-meaning and engaged parents and teachers are often ill equipped to deal effectively with adolescents and their remarkable yet confounding social and emotional changes. Surviving Adolescence follows the roller coaster ride parents with teenagers experience, stages that author Michael Gilbert calls Ratcheting Up, the First Drop, Loop-de-Loop, Climbing, the Steep Drop, In the Tunnel, Into the Daylight, and Leveling Off. These stages cover issues such as preparing for adolescence, the reality of confronting puberty, the family unit, and how to help teens confront a new social environment, including cyberspace. Additional areas covered are recognizing the need for productive activities, discussing burgeoning sexual issues, bullying, and substance abuse. Suggestions for communicating effectively and taking care of yourself are included, too, making this a well-rounded and valuable resource for parents and educators alike.

Expert suggestions for guiding your child through the rough teenage years Does it sometimes seem like your teenager is trying to push you over the edge? Learn what your child is going through and what you can do to help your teen navigate this difficult period in this practical guide from psychologist and parenting expert Carl Pickhardt. In an easy-to-read style, Dr. Pickhardt describes a 4-stage model of adolescent growth to help parents anticipate common developmental changes in their daughter or son from late elementary school through the college age years. Provides unique advice for dealing with arguing, chores, the messy room, homework, and many other issues Offers best practices for teaching effective communication, constructive conflict, and responsible decision-making Includes ideas for protecting kids against the dangers of the Internet, bullying, dating, sexual involvement, and substance use An essential road map for parents looking to guide their children on the path to adulthood.

Surviving Adolescence: A Road Map for Teens and Parents This book is a survival tool for parents and guide on how to manage your parents for adolescents. Wouldn't be nice if we could just skip adolescence? You know, those terrible years from 12 to 20. I'm sure most parents are shouting "Yes!", and many adolescents as well. Well, unfortunately, we can't. So there is nothing left to do but make the best of a challenging situation. This book tells you how to make these years, as a parent or a teenager, as easy as possible-- in fact, very enjoyable at times. The key is knowledge and an infinite amount of patience. With a little bit of humor, plenty of understanding and 50 years of experience treating adolescents, child psychiatrist Cal Colarusso, M.D. provides ideas and examples to smooth the way. Surviving Adolescence, A Roadmap for teen and Their Parents provides understanding of inscrutable adolescent behavior and offers practical suggestions on managing mood swings, backtalk, disgusting bedrooms, sexual behavior, and dating. This book includes Developmental Concepts: An understanding of the effects of puberty The meaning of adolescent withdrawal and secretiveness The need for continued parental involvement and limits The meaning of adolescent crushes When to allow dating The vital role of friendships Parental involvement in choosing a career Do’s and Don'ts for parents

A step-by-step approach to handling teenagers, this guide helps parents end the hassles and improve their parent-teenager relationship. Parents learn how to communicate with teenagers, how to manage teenage risk-taking, how to 'let go' in certain situations, and when to seek professional attention. Concise and encouraging, this resource walks parents through the ups-and-downs of parenting teenagers as their kids push towards independence.

#1 New York Times Bestseller The groundbreaking work that poses one of the most provocative questions of a generation: what is happening to the selves of adolescent girls? As a therapist, Mary Pipher was becoming frustrated with the growing problems among adolescent girls. Why were so many of them turning to therapy in the first place? Why had these lovely and promising human beings fallen prey to depression, eating disorders, suicide attempts, and crushingly low self-esteem? The answer hit a nerve with Pipher, with parents, and with the girls themselves. Crashing and burning in a “developmental Bermuda Triangle,” they were coming of age in a media-saturated culture preoccupied with unrealistic ideals of beauty and images of dehumanized sex, a culture rife with addictions and sexually transmitted diseases. They were losing their resiliency and optimism in a “girl-poisoning” culture that propagated values at odds with those necessary to survive. Told in the brave, fearless, and honest voices of the girls themselves who are emerging from the chaos of adolescence, Reviving Ophelia is a call to arms, offering important tactics, empathy, and strength, and urging a change where young hearts can flourish again, and rediscover and reengage their sense of self.

Within these pages is a first-hand description of the way life was in England, and the London area, during the WWII conflict through the eyes of a young girl who survived those horrific times. Understand what it was like seeking shelter from aerial attacks, sleeping in air raid shelters and attempting to have some form of education while spending school days inside the bomb shelters. Later, dodging V1 rockets (doodlebugs), and V2 rockets as they were aimed constantly toward those danger zones. Learn what it was like going to and from work with threat of exploding devices ever present. Feel for yourself the unbelievable relief, joy, and yet sadness as well when the war ended. All this is written in easy to understand descriptive storytelling form as though the author were sitting next to the reader. Be transported into that historic and difficult time.

How to Survive Your Teenager offers words of wisdom and entertaining stories on teenagers from the real 'pros' — everyday parents across the country who have raised a teenager and survived to tell their story. A fun and quick read for harried parents on the go, the book is jam-packed with hundreds of quick tips and great advice on a variety of subjects, including home life, school, friends and peer pressure, media and entertainment, sex, and drinking and drugs.

Why are the teen years fraught with crisis for so many girls? Why do so many mother-daughter relationships deteriorate drastically at this time? When her own teenage daughter began to spiral out of control, therapist Cheryl Dellasega, Ph.D., launched a nationwide search to find answers— and hope. In this inspiring, compassionate book, Dellasega shares the strength and the wisdom of mothers who have seen their daughters through the tumult of adolescence. Drawing on the experiences of scores of mothers and daughters, Dellasega takes a hard look at the lives of girls in crisis—once happy, carefree children who are now struggling with eating disorders, unplanned pregnancies, substance abuse, and severe mental problems. These are stories of girls on the edge, and mothers who are trying everything to save them. Yet even in the most desperate situations, Dellasega hears the same clear message: the key to survival is the support and the understanding of others going through the same thing. Surviving Ophelia is a book that provides the community that mothers of troubled teenage girls need more than anything. Powerful and heartfelt, this book captures both the pain and the strength of mothers who are living with the daily challenge of raising teenage daughters today.

Whether the problem is substance abuse, eating disorders, or suicidal tendancies, Fair Oaks Hospital's Dr. Larry Dumont provides parents with the latest approaches in diagnosing and treating teens on the edge.

Discusses a variety of common problems that teenagers face and gives advice on how to cope with them from a Christian point of view.