A survival guide to parenting teens : talking to your kids about sexting, drinking, drugs, and other things that freak you out / Joani Geltman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geltman, Joani, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parent and teenager.

Parenting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Talking to your kids about sexting, drinking, drugs, and other things that freak you out

Place of Publication:

Broadway, New York : AMACOM, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Defiant toddlers... Back talking gradeschoolers... Nothing is as challenging as the landmines encountered by parents of teenagers. Online bullying, sexting, hook ups, pot smoking, depression--what parent knows how to handle these explosive problems? A Survival Guide to Parenting Teens offers the solutions. Covering a broad range of issues--80 different topics in all--this straight-talking guide helps parents understand why teenagers behave the way they do. Parenting expert Joani Geltman reveals what they are thinking and feeling--and what develop mental factors are involved. She then explains

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Just Tell Me what to do About . . . Raising a Teen; 1. Deflection and Denial: Your Teen's Main Defense Mechanisms; 2. My Teenage Clone: The Power of Conformity; 3. Getting your Teen up in the Morning: Strategies for Eliminating the Daily Fight from the Morning Routine; 4. You can't Always Get what you Want: The Demanding and Entitled Teen; 5. Too Much Time on their Hands: The Busier the Teen, the More Motivated; 6. The Power of Puberty: Changing Body, Changing Brain

7. L is for Lazy: Getting your Teens to do what you want them to Do8. Trust vs. Temptation: How to Help a Sneaky Teen; 9. Lies of Omission: "Oh. I didn't Think I had to Tell you That"; 10. Why don't Boys Talk? A Different Kind of Silent Treatment; 11. My Kid the Quitter: Why won't My Teen Stick with Anything?; 12. The Parent-Teen Power Struggle: You can't Make Me; 13. Helping your Teen with Remembering: You Forgot Your __________ Again?; 14. Teen Self-Absorption: My Teen the Narcissist; 15. My Teen the Pit Bull: Never Takes no for an Answer; 16. The Teen who Talks Back: The Kid's Got Attitude

17. The Messy Room: To Clean or not to CleanPart Two: Just Tell Me what to do About . . . Keeping My Teen Motivated and Engaged in School; 18. Why can't My Teen do Better? How to Assess Achievement; 19. Studying and Learning vs. Texting and Facebook: Strategies for Time Management; 20. The Plight of the Homework Avoider: It's not Just Laziness; 21. The Drama of Exams: A Strategy for Success; 22. The Report Card: A Call to Action; 23. Summer Reading: Thank you Teachers, for Ruining My Last Few Weeks of Summer; Part Three: Just Tell Me what to do About . . . Navigating the College Process

24. Senioritis-Parentitis: Surviving the Application Process and Tips for Successful College Visits25. Eenie, Meenie, Miney Mo, to which College should I Go? A Roadmap for Decision Making; 26. What to Expect from your High School Graduating Senior: Letting Go; 27. What to Expect from your College Students when they Return Home; Part Four: Just Tell Me what to do About . . . Helping My Teen Avoid the Friendship Traps; 28. The Bully Pulpit: Strategies to Ward off a Bully; 29. Loyalty in Teens can be Harmful to their Health: Penn State, a Case Study

30. The Agony of a Ninth-Grade Boy: What it Feels like to be the Youngest Boy in the School31. Teens who Feel Left Out: "Why don't they Ever Call Me?"; 32. The Bad Seed Friend: What to do about the Friend you Wish your Teen Didn't Have; Part Five: Just Tell Me what to do About . . . Drinking and Drugs; 33. Getting to Know your Teen's Drinking Personality: What Motivates your Teen to Drink or do Drugs?; 34. Keeping your Teens Safe if or when they Choose to Drink: A Successful Strategy; 35. The Consequences of Teens Drinking in your Home: It's Always your Responsibility to Keep Teens Safe

36. What Happens when Teens are Left Unsupervised: A Room-for-Improvement Parenting Story

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8144-3367-7

OCLC:

880416347