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Summary: Let your teens read it also
Review: As a therapist who specializes in adolescents, I have recomended this book to dozens of parents. They all love it and always recognize their teens. I tell parents to let the teens read the book also, they do, they laugh, they learn. It is the best book about teens I have ever read or used in my practice.
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Summary: Refreshing! Finally somebody knows how I feel.
Review: As the mother of a 15 year old girl, communication, understanding and a respect for one anothers thoughts and feeling, have all been highly prioritized in my role as a parent. The adolesant years can be most turbulant for youngster as well as for parents. What caught my first attention was the title of this book. When I started reading, I couldn't put it down. It's refreshing to know that my daughter and I are not alone when it comes to dealing with the frustrations that come with the adolesant years.The author did a great job with the topics discussed, the examples given, together with the parental advise on how to deal with these issues. I'd recommend this book to every parent.
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Summary: This Author Must Live at My House!!
Review: Being the parent of a 15 1/2 year old daughter and a 18 year old son, I feel like this book was written for me. This book offers very "real" situations without the "fluff" used by other writers. It has helped me a lot with my attitude towards dealing their attitudes and I don't take things as personally as I used to. I have used several of the author's suggestions and to my great suprise THEY WORKED!!! I love my kids dearly, but these teen years have to be the hardest years by far. This book offers good, firm, loving advice.
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Summary: Don't have a teenager without it
Review: Excellent. Can't say enough about how it helped.
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Summary: Lighthearted Approach to Adolescence
Review: Get Out Of My Life is a guidebook written to help parents understand and positively manage the difficult adolescent years. Suggestions on how parents can deal with adolescent turmoil, conflict, and real life issues are made. The physical and intellectual changes associated with adolescence are discussed. How teenagers respond to these uncontrolled changes is remarkably similar within the individual sexes. On the other hand, they can be quite different between the sexes. For example, for young female teens fitting in is paramount. A young female teen's self esteem can be directly tied to their level of popularity. Friends are also very important to young male teens, but the boys are more accepting and less cruel in the process. The interaction between parent and teenager is described and analyzed. Because the transition from childhood to adolescence is sporadic and out of character, parents are typically caught off guard and unprepared for hostile parent-adolescent interactions. This discussion is especially valuable in providing the bewildered parents examples of predictable teenage demands and how to handle them. For example, the parent of a new teen will immediately recognize the anecdotal descriptions the author provides like, "I don't care". Here the child threatens disobedience with the famous "I don't care what you say or do to me, I'll do what I want......." The author explains that it is the parent's job to discern actual disobedience from threatened disobedience and to avoid the ensuing fight at all costs. Finally, the book examines the real world external challenges teenagers face and gives the reader statistics, tips, and advise on: peer pressure, drugs, alcohol, divorce between parents, trouble in school, and sex. Again, the author does a good job of building his points using anecdotal parent/teen dialogue. This provides, on the one hand, a mirror for parent's own behavior; while reinforcing the commonality of the teen behavior they are seeing in their children. Anthony Wolf has 30 years of clinical experience in adolescent psychology as well as experience with two of his own teenagers. His purpose in writing the book is to provide characteristic teenage dialogue, with a quintessential situation, and translate it into the naivete of adolescence that it is. What I liked most about this book was the author's lighthearted approach to adolescence; as a parent of two adolescents myself, I could finally see the humor. It is much funnier when you come to realize that it is all normal and every family with an adolescent will experience it. Although I did not agree with all of his parenting advise, I agreed with the majority of his advice and found his book extremely insightful. I certainly would recommend this book to anyone who wants a better understanding of adolescence behavior.
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Summary: Parental Survival Kit
Review: Having raised both a teenage son and daughter, I found myself referencing this book quite often. It helped at many different stages of their growing years. It gave me insite into what their thought process was...which enable me to alter my approach. It is difficult for a parent to understand what is on a teenagers'mind when your utmost concern is for their safety. I highly suggest this book...and make sure you keep it on hand ...you will be surprised how often you pick up. STILL SURVIVING
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Summary: Keep this book handy at all times to prove you're not crazy!
Review: How do you love this "new" person who comes into your home and disrupts everything in your life? Dr. Wolf does a wonderful job of calming frazzled parents and letting us know there is light at the end of the tunnel. He gives practical advice on how to help a teen make the difficult transition into adulthood. We are not perfect parents, but this book is helping us maintain a loving, nurturing relationship with our teen.
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Summary: a book that didn't make me feel guilty
Review: I am an avid reader and get most of my information this way. So, I've read many books to help me get through these teenage years, which stated half way through 6th grade (age 12) and continuing with frightening fury through age 14. Mostly, they have made me feel guilty for things I hadn't done. This books takes you where you're at as ugly as it may be. This is the first time I have been able to feel that my daughter is normal, that is an important first step in dealing with a teenager. Chapter 3 was most meaningful for me. It dealt with letting go and accepting the person you're child has become. We spend our child's lives raising them and protecting them and as if overnight, we are expected to stand back and live with our creation. I also appreciated how he recognizes some parents feelings that although we love them, we at times hate them and want to cause them physical harm. I too, feel like this was written about my child. I also feel that he must have heard some of the conversations we have had and repeated them verbatim. He wrote this book long before I ever dreamed those words could come out of my darling daughters mouth. I feel not so alone.
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Summary: A "MUST HAVE" for all parents of teens!!
Review: I bought this book for my husband and myself. I felt so relieved to know it wasn't "just us" going thru these so called "stages" with our teens. I had to set the book down for a moment. When I went back to grab it, my teenage daughters we reading it! They also felt relieved that they weren't the only teens going thru this. It has helped all of us to understand each other. What a great feeling that is! Especially when your teens tell you "You're doing a good job Mom". Thanks for a fantastic book!!
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Summary: Living With Teenagers
Review: I found this book to be excellent. I have 2 teenagers and the book really enlightened me on a number of things. I thought I was the only one with the issues in the book so I felt so good to know the things I am going through are very common with teenagers. I recommend this book for anyone with a teenager.
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