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The book "You and Your Adolescent" is a revised edition that provides parents with a guide to understanding and navigating their child's adolescence. It challenges common misconceptions about this period and offers advice on topics such as social media and the adolescent brain. The author emphasizes the importance of knowledge for parents in order to successfully support their child through this stage of development.
One of the foremost authorities on adolescence provides parents with an authoritative, reassuring guidebook to this challenging period of development.
Relax! The horror stories you have heard about adolescence are false.
This is Dr. Laurence Steinbergs reassuring message to parents in this newly revised edition of his classic book
You and Your Adolescent, which
Publishers Weekly says is filled with solid advice for the parents of adolescents. Among the new topics in this updated edition:
-An expanded definition of adolescence to age twenty-five, recognizing that college graduates often remain dependent on their parents for an extended period, creating a new parent-child dynamic
-A discussion of social media that addresses whether parents of preteens and young teens should monitor use of these new communication tools
-What new research into the adolescent brain tells us about teenage behavior
As Dr. Steinberg writes, Most books written for parents of teenagers were survival guides (many still are). Nowadays, adolescence is too longfifteen years in some familiesfor mere survival. Knowledge, not fortitude, is what todays parents need. Thats where this book comes in.
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