JoCoLibrary - Adult Nonfiction - Parenting Teenagers
Annotation:This guide to using the online social network provides information on registering and setting up a profile, communicating with friends, using Facebook applications, and more.
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Annotation:A developmental researcher refutes societal wisdom to reveal that teens are not inherently difficult or emotionally troubled, and presents guidelines to help parents foster teens' success.
Annotation:A Licensed Professional Counselor with the evangelical Christian group Focus on the Family offers advice for parents of teenagers.
Annotation:A Montana cowboy/therapist describes his work as a ranch counselor for troubled teens, sharing recommendations for parents on how to address difficult specific challenges, encourage teens to process their emotions in healthy ways, and help young people to take pride in hard work.
Annotation:A psychotherapist and experienced-parent-of-teenagers explores the "troubled" teenager, offering a straight-shooting, insightful look at how to deal with the problems of adolescence.
Annotation:Offers advice and support for parents with adolescents dealing with sexual identity, personal confusion, bigotry, tension, and other challenges of being gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered.
Annotation:Family therapist Judy Ford’s handbook shows fun ways to guide teens toward healthy adulthood.
Annotation:A lighthearted but insightful guide to raising adolescent children shows parents how to deal with teenagers living in a faster-paced, less morally certain world than the one they knew.
Annotation:Educator Fried shows how we can change the rules of the game, reclaim and refocus the learning experience, and ultimately bring joy back into the classroom.
Annotation:Provides basic consumer health information about accident and injury prevention, disaster preparedness, and coping with emergencies.
Annotation:A child/adolescent psychologist shows how to identify and manage troubled teens.
Annotation:The author of Punished by Rewards and The School Our Children Deserve builds on his parenting theories of working with children rather than trying to control them, argues against practices that teach children that they must earn a parent's approval, and presents techniques that promote desired child qualities through unconditional support.
Annotation:Describes 10 steps that lead to better behavior, demonstrating how to establish common ground, encourage mutual respect, and introduce cooperative problem solving, all without escalating the struggle for control.
Annotation:Offers parents practical advice on giving their teenagers responsibility, reinforcing good behavior, and standing up for parental rights.
Annotation:Presents a guide to successful cohabitation with teenagers covering such topics as how teenagers get into trouble, setting limits, building self-esteem, peer pressure, and antisocial behavior.
Annotation:Presenting a unique approach to dealing with the turmoil of adolescence, the authors recognize that teens learn best when they're allowed to make choices and learn from the consequences. The trick is in setting up choices so the consequences are constructive.
Annotation:Guides parents on how to deal with teenagers, their growing-pain angst, and their seemingly endless dramas in a positive manner through humorous stories, tips from former teenagers, and advice on effective communication.
Annotation:Encourages parents of adolescents to appreciate their children's difficult behavior and to adapt their own parenting styles to their teens' needs.
Annotation:Encourages parents of adolescents to appreciate their children's difficult behavior and to adapt their own parenting styles to their teens' needs.
Annotation:Applies biblically-based principles to handle the task of raising teens, explaining how to apply boundaries and addressing the attitudes, conflicts, and difficulties of parents themselves to help them resolve their own personal obstacles and become an effective maturing force for the teen.
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Resources for parents of teenagers
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