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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Dr. Michael Bradley's book, "Yes, Your Teen is Crazy!" is an
inspiration and should be on every parent's night stand, indefinitely. From the frightening statistics on teen suicide today to safety and privacy issues, you will finally understand what you're dealing with as a parent and what you can do to make the experience better for your teenager and your family. Dr. Bradley's grasp of teen fears, trials and needs is a pleasant reminder to be kind to our teens in an otherwise punitive society. This book is a guiding light for parents trying to love sometimes unlovable kids while also providing security in the face of panic. He offers excellent guidelines to help conquer your fears while also helping your teen deal with their own tumultuous world.
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Summary: The Book That Saved My Sanity
Review: This book is incredible!!! This book is my new Bible - it changed so many things in my thinking and helped me to understand what is going on with my 14 old son and me and the world around us. My son is a good kid, but he is 14 and so he does his part of crazy now and then. Before I read this book it was incredibly hurtful to see this stranger who is talking back, raises his voice with me, etc., when you do remeber you sweet liitle boy who listened to your every word... This book saved me from so much pain, disappointment and feeling inadequate as a parent! I am a new person with so much more wisdom taken from this book! I feel that EVERY parent, even the ones who feel that they know it all, must read this book, and if your child is young, this book will prepare you for future. I wish to thank Dr. Bradley for such astonishingly brilliant work! I was so lucky that I came across this book and I am recommending it to everyone I know.
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Summary: My Bible
Review: I am a licensed clinical child psychologist with a teenager and I use Bradley's book as my bible. Whenever there's an argument or I'm confused about how I reacted or how my teenager reacted, I really do return to the book and look for relevant passages. I love his sense of humor, the personal anecdotes, and the wisdom. I love that he says on one page -- under no circumstances snoop in your child's room, and then on the next page or the very same page -- sometimes you're going to have to snoop in your child's room. There's just a lot of calming wisdom in this book. I love it AND I don't know the author, have never met him, and merely bought the book on a whim when I saw it at the bookstore. What a lucky impulse purchase for me!
Sharon Lamb, Ed.D.
author of, The Secret Lives of Girls (Free Press 2002)
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Summary: For everyone who even knows a teenager
Review: This book covers a very difficult subject for parents, and it does it with humor, understanding and wisdom. It's a very enjoyable and funny read. But beyond that, when it's all said and done, you're left with the feling that you really can change the way you parent your crazy teenagers. By the way, my husband is a Junior High teacher, and he's making sure everyone he works with reads it too!
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Summary: horrible
Review: Helped me...hmm...not at all? Don't buy, it describes teenagers too generally.
---A not too confused parent
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Summary: Yes, Your Teen is Crazy, Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your
Review: Both my husband and myself found Dr. Bradley's book to be extremely helpful in raising our fourteen year old girl. Most important, I think, we now understand that we are not alone, that some of the traits she has exhibited are not so off the wall and Dr. Bradley gives really good advice in dealing with some of her issues and ours. I liked the fact that he devoted a good chapter to rages that teens sometimes show and the best way to deal with them. Karen, New York
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Summary: A view-changer
Review: Having read Teens in Turmoil, I would have clenched harder at every indiscretion my two teens commit, convinced that they are at risk. I was miserable and scared. but immediately when I began reading this book, my views were altered dramatically. I don't feel so nervous about all the typical-by-Dr.-Bradley's-view things my teens do. this helped me develop a perspective that allowed room for my kids to become and be who they will without me getting in the way, but with some practical measure of limits and growth applied. it's a friendly and compassionate book both to the teen and the parent. Dr. Bradley is on the side of both teen and parent and makes me feel that I'm not doing so badly, and most important that I'm not alone. His own personal accounts are some of the most enlightening, and come with tension and suprize. I was first offput by some cutesy language, but it is used unabashedly throughout, and so now I accept it as part of Dr. Bradley, the child psychologist with a little bit of a ham in him. the reading is very easy and grabs the reader right away, but the opening material is easy to take in, despite the fear it might instill (in what our society is doing to itself). past 1/2 way the material is more difficult, dealing with the guts of tough issues, so I have slowed down for the home stretch. All in all, I would highly highly recommend this reading to any parent of a teen. Please read it and learn you are probably doing ok, if you are concerned enough to find the time to spend with this book.
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Summary: A must read.
Review: I highly recommend this book to anyone with children even if they're not quite a teen yet. It is full of practical, sensible advice. It addresses the fears and doubts of both parents and teens with humor and compassion. Just wonderful. I'm buying it for Christmas for my best friend even though her children are just nine and five years old. Never hurts to be prepared, and this book will definitely help.
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Summary: from the trenches...
Review: Get the book and read it... Memorize it and practice Dr. Bradley's suggestions until they become your first reaction to the teenage craziness around you. I don't say this casually. I say this because I know, for a fact, what Bradley says works. It works when nothing else seems to and when you are absolutely certain you have no idea where that ex-child, now crazy person, came from. Less humorously...his suggestions work when you are desperately close to watching your son or daughter become a statistic. It works when nothing else has and, believe me, if you are at this point in his or her life, nothing else might. Simply put, Dr. Bradley saved my son. Now, he will say that I did, and I may have been the one who was mouthing the words and acting the part, but the words were his and the role was his, both borne from years of sensitive and insightful counseling of parents and their teenagers. I know. I sat on the couch across from his. He watched and listened and I was hysterical. He made the same suggestions (quietly and dispassionately!) to me in my insanity that he shares in his book. He pounded them into my head and I became convinced of a few things: my son was crazy and I was his anchor. It is a few years later and my son and I are emerging from the insanity of those years, but I keep the book close by and I read and reread his words and I hear them echo and I vow always to follow them: "dispassionate cop" "short sentences, few syllables" "apologize (me, not my son)." Of course, I sometimes fail, but teenagers have a generous way of providing more opportunities to practice. I knew I had been given one of those chances and succeeded when I responded calmly, and dispassionately in a short sentence of few syllables and my son said, "Mom...stop that, because...it...it is....working." Bradley's knowledge in this area is broad and deep, his suggestions are easy to understand, his book is poignant, clear, and frantic-parent friendly. His humor is readily evident and heartening. Reading the book is almost as good as sitting in a session with him...seriously. Read it seriously. Follow it seriously. It works...seriously. Thanks, Dr. Bradley.
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Summary: The absolute best parenting handbook you can buy!!
Review: You would not beleave how great this book is. It has all the truthfulness you could want and ways of helping your child that bring him or her closer to you, that work. This book is'nt full of psyco-babble it has humorus writing but still gets down to it. It can help you in any way you could think of to help you and your child grow closer. but don't take it from me, read it yourself, it's not one of those "ze prloblem appears to be ze intoletualdefunnct" type of books This book helps you in the simpilest ways.
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