Surviving your child's adolescence : how to understand, and even enjoy, the rocky road to independence / Carl Pickhardt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pickhardt, Carl E., 1939-

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parent and teenager.

Parenting.

Teenagers.

Adolescence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 268 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Expert suggestions for guiding your child through the rough teenage years Does it sometimes seem like your teenager is trying to push you over the edge? Learn what your child is going through and what you can do to help your teen navigate this difficult period in this practical guide from psychologist and parenting expert Carl Pickhardt. In an easy-to-read style, Dr. Pickhardt describes a 4-stage model of adolescent growth to help parents anticipate common developmental changes in their daughter or son from late elementary school through the college age years.Provides unique

Contents:

Preparing for the inevitable

A road map to early and mid-adolescence

A road map to late adolescence and trial independence

Parenting adolescent sons and daughters

The complexities of spoken communication

The use and abuse of conflict

Discipline that does and doesn?t work

Informal and formal education

Problems with peers

The power of parents.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781283978132

128397813X

9781118419342

1118419340

9781118421222

1118421221