The agony and the agony : raising your teenager without losing your mind / Betty Londergan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Londergan, Betty.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child rearing.

Parenting.

Parent and teenager.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Edition:

1st Da Capo Press ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Serving up more attitude than a grounded 15-year-old, a laugh-out-loud, true-to-life guide to surviving your teen's surly, slothful, sassy adolescence

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: Welcome to Agony; Stage 1: Denial; 1 First Signs of Adolescence and Other Horrors; 2 Mouth and Lip Disorders of Early Adolescence; 3 Impending Assaults on Parental Sanity; Stage 2: Anger; 4 The Minefields; 5 Oh, the Sneaky, Underhanded Things They'll Do; 6 Coping Mechanisms; Stage 3: Depression; 7 "Worst-Case Scenario" Is Sugarcoating It; 8 Why Bother?; 9 Lights at the End of the Tunnel; Stage 4: Bargaining; 10 Ground Rules: You Versus Them; 11 Hurdles on the Track to Consensus; 12 How to Quid-Pro-Quo Like a Pro; Stage 5: Acceptance; 13 Blinding Flashes of the Obvious

14 The Beauty of Perspective15 The Promised Land; Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-7867-2685-7

OCLC:

794663434