Kategoria BISAC: Family & Relationships >> Life Stages - Teenagers

Every parent needs help in guiding their teenagers through the difficult adolescent years, when they face peer pressure, dating, alcohol, drugs, harassment, and pressure to have sex, among many issues. In this revised and updated edition of her acclaimed book, parenting educator Debra Haffner offers invaluable practical advice, sample conversations, and checklists that parents can use to talk to their teens. The book includes:

• "Values Exercises" to help you identify and communicate your beliefs to your teens
• "Special Issues" to advise you on discussing difficult topics...

Following the success of her first book, Yes, Please. Thanks mum and author Penny Palmano, This Morning's Mrs. Manners, is back with this comprehensive guide to raising teenagers.

After her fair share of parenting, Penny Palmano decided to tackle what she saw as an epidemic of bad manners, and wrote a guidebook on teaching good manners to children. The book, Yes, Please. Thanks , touched a nerve and has become a bestselling sensation.

Yes, Please. Whatever takes you, the parents, to the next stage and teaches you how to avoid the pitfalls of teenagers and all the problems...

Aimed at parents of 9-16 year olds, this A-Z of questions and answers covers every conceivable dilemma - from what age you should give your child a mobile phone, to dealing with internet chat rooms.

When can your child legally get a job? When can they baby-sit the kid next door? Tackling the trickiest problems head on, Karen Sullivan explains when it is safe, appropriate, necessary or even normal for children to do certain things. As your children enter their teenage years and want more independence, the questions multiply.

You Want to Do What? offers reliable guidance and...

Although the word teenager has become synonymous with trouble, the evidence is clear: Adolescents have gotten a bad rap--and this according to a landmark eight-year study of 4,000 teens from twenty-five states. In The Good Teen, acclaimed researcher Richard M. Lerner sets the record straight. The book:
- Explores the academic origins of -the troubled teen, - dismantling old myths and redefining normal adolescence
- Presents the five characteristics of teen behavior that are proven to fuel positive development--Competence,...

His groundbreaking study shows that about one-fifth of youth today are thriving -- highly...

This reference book provides information on the family planning rights of minors in eleven countries in North America and Western Europe. "The Adolescent Dilemma" covers a minor's legal rights to abortion services and birth control. In addition, this comprehensive resource discusses sex education, sexual behavior, and the nature and extent of contraceptive practices. The introduction presents a framework for discussing minors' rights and the conclusion draws on the information provided in the book to take a brief, comparative look at the topic. Both a reference resource on family planning...

Bringing together the views of numerous distinguished scholars, "Children and Death" investigates the child's concept of death from both academic and clinical points of view. The contributors have aimed at developing practical guidelines for a multidisciplinary approach to the care and support of the dying child, the child's family unit, and staff who work with dying children. The findings presented here are also applicable to care of children with life-threatening illness. Topics discussed include: children's concepts of death; emotional impact of disease; perspectives on children's death...

This work focuses on the highly controversial Project 100,000 which was initiated in the midst of the Vietnam War and the War on Poverty during the Johnson administration. With the project as a model, the authors easily show exactly how the military examined, selected, classified, trained, and utilized the one third of our nation generally considered untrainable and unemployable. In addition to providing detailed statistics on the performance of lower aptitude youth in the military for the last half-century, this work analyzes experiments conducted by the armed forces to develop effective...