Is there any time in our developmental stage as challenging or provoking as adolescence? Listen to some parents and teachers and one hears a preponderance of doom-and-gloom scenarios. But according to expert and physician Dr. William A. Long, Jr., the difficulties of adolescence are not so clear-cut, nor is the future so bleak. In his important book, Your Predictable Adolescent, Dr. Long delivers a goldmine of information and guidance regarding these age-specific children, and readers will be as heartened as they are fascinated by the author's research-based and often humorous perceptions....