Parenting a Teen Girl: A Crash Course on Conflict, Communication and Connection with Your Teenage Daughter Author: Lucie Hemmen | Language: English | ISBN:
B008ML4U9G | Format: EPUB
Parenting a Teen Girl: A Crash Course on Conflict, Communication and Connection with Your Teenage Daughter Description
It’s not easy to be a teen girl, and it’s definitely not easy parenting one. Parents everywhere struggle to respond appropriately to challenging behavior, hit-or-miss communication, and fluctuating moods commonly exhibited by teenage girls. More than previous generations, today’s teen girls face a daunting range of stressors that put them at risk for a range of serious issues, including self-harming behaviors, substance abuse, eating disorders, anxiety, and depression. Is it any wonder that parents are overwhelmed?
Parenting a Teen Girl is a guide for busy parents who want bottom-line information and tips that make sense—and work. It also offers scripts to improve communication, and exercises to navigate stressful interactions with skill and compassion. Whether your teen girl is struggling with academic pressure, social difficulties, physical self-care, or technology overload, this book offers practical advice to help you connect with your teen girl. Parents and teens alike can enjoy a positive connection once common parent-teen pitfalls are replaced with solid understanding and strategies that work.
In this book, you will learn how to:
- Maximize your teen’s healthy development
- Understand what underlies her moods and behavior
- Implement strategies for positive results
- Communicate effectively about difficult issues
- Enjoy and appreciate time with your teen daughter
- File Size: 373 KB
- Print Length: 192 pages
- Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition (August 1, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B008ML4U9G
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,982 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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Perhaps the most striking thing about Lucie Hemmen's book is the sense the reader gets that here is a person who truly likes teenage girls.
Authors of books on adolescence and parenting tend to be either pedantic about -or worse- hostile towards their subjects. Dr. Hemmen's friendly, reassuring style serves as a balm to the alienation that can arise between parents and daughters at the onset of adolescence. Of note is the fact that her examples are frequently oriented towards fathers - a group often marginalized in discussions of teen girls.
This book pairs the most commonsense of observations with current brain research. Many of her "scripts" for parents involve connecting the dots between healthy choices and positive outcomes. Dr. Hemmen exhibits a certain mastery in piecing out examples of positive direction in arenas like social networking or cell phone use. The discussion of hot button issues is among the best Ive seen. Her reassuring voice is at its apex as she differentiates between teen exploration and red flag behaviors.
As a clinician working with teens and a parent of an adolescent i found the most useful sections of the book to be those focusing on tools and resources. Dr. Hemmen seems to have an endless capacity for presenting dilemmas along with a variety of solutions. Thus we are "parented" as we read the book. Truly a wise voice and a welcome addition to the literature of parenting.
By Jesse Burgess MFT
Dr. Hemmen provides us with a wonderful combination of humor and heart. I found myself laughing throughout while being given tender insights to the nature and development of the teenage girl. I admit I had a lot of "Aha!" moments.
There's a sense of relief when she provides recognizable examples and says, "It's okay. This is normal. Try it this way and see what happens."
The book is thorough, easy to read, and easy to relate. It provides suggestions and encouragement with everything from conversations starters to taking care of oneself. A favorite chapter of mine addresses technology and social networking. `Taming the Tech Tiger' was a great chapter!
I picked up the book feeling some anxiety. I laid it down with more understanding and a feeling that this will all turn out okay.
By Chad Herendeen
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