A Game Plan for Parents: Preparing Your Child for the Teenage Scene - Tapa blanda

Strening, Colleen

 
9780595167708: A Game Plan for Parents: Preparing Your Child for the Teenage Scene
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ISBN 10: 0595167705 ISBN 13: 9780595167708
Editorial: iUniverse, 2001

Sinopsis

This book is an indispensable guide for parents of preadolescents and adolescents. Here you will find valuable information about teenagers and the common customs and practices at the teenage scene. Between the covers of this book are practical methods for parents to use to help their children deal with the pressures of their peers. For many years, parents have been aware that the teenage scene poses some risks. Some parents decide to wait and see if a problem develops and then address it. Other parents fall prey to the many myths that help sustain not only ineffective parenting but also the teenage scene itself:All kids experiment. Everyone is doing it.There is too much peer pressure to resist.We did it. They will. Everything will work itself out.Thirty years of research has proved not only that these myths offer false hopes for parents but also preparing in advance is a key element for success. With the valuable and carefully researched information this book provides, groups of parents will find this book to be a wonderful networking tool. Together, parents can discuss these successful strategies and implement the game plan presented here.

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Reseña del editor

This book is an indispensable guide for parents of preadolescents and adolescents. Here you will find valuable information about teenagers and the common customs and practices at the teenage scene. Between the covers of this book are practical methods for parents to use to help their children deal with the pressures of their peers. For many years, parents have been aware that the teenage scene poses some risks. Some parents decide to wait and see if a problem develops and then address it. Other parents fall prey to the many myths that help sustain not only ineffective parenting but also the teenage scene itself:All kids experiment. Everyone is doing it.There is too much peer pressure to resist.We did it. They will. Everything will work itself out.Thirty years of research has proved not only that these myths offer false hopes for parents but also preparing in advance is a key element for success. With the valuable and carefully researched information this book provides, groups of parents will find this book to be a wonderful networking tool. Together, parents can discuss these successful strategies and implement the game plan presented here.

Biografía del autor

Colleen Conroyd Strening has worked as a volunteer parent in her community for over ten years, including five years with the Parent Alliance for Drug and Alcohol Awareness. She has focused here on information that is familiar to the experts in the field but not necessarily known to many parents.

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Editorial
iUniverse
Año de publicación
2001
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0595167705
ISBN 13 
9780595167708
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
196
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