Title - Adolescence: Guide for Parents
 | Adolescence: Guide for Parents
Carr-Gregg, Michael & Shale, Erin
Adolescence has changed. Young people now enter puberty earlier (in many cases, at ten or eleven) and leave home later. What's more, modern society expects children to grow up emotionally all too quickly. The good news is that the skills, knowledge and strategies parents need are clearly explained in Adolescence.
In this book, Michael Carr-Gregg and Erin Shale discuss:The three big questions in an adolescent’s life: ‘Am I normal?’, ‘Who am I?’ and ‘What is my place in the world?’the increasingly early onset of puberty, and its impact on you and your pre-teen childuseful approaches for parents and teachers: what good parenting is all about, techniques for communicating well, and knowing how to handle problems before they become criseshow to deal with serious issues such as depression, suicidal feelings, relationships and emerging sexuality, drugs and eating disordersparents’ most frequently asked questions;how to set appropriate, negotiated boundarieshow to raise our children to be resilient adults and cope with difficulties in lifewhy the key protective factor for adolescents is a sense of attachment to a significant adult in their livesand how successful parenting is about providing young people with an environment where they feel safe, valued and listened to. (Finch)
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ISBN: 9781876451356
Type: Pbk
Number of pages: 240pp
Publisher: Finch Publishing
Date Of Publication: 200207
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