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Summary: Stay Calm!
Review: Great advice in this book on how to stay calm when your teen goes nuts, and they can and do go nuts, making us parents crazy too if we let them. Walks you through the teen culture of today. Easy to think we baby boomers know everything about being a teen since we once were one, but today's teens have a new, scarier world. Knowledge is power...buy this book!!
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Summary: A "must read" for the parents of teenage offspring!
Review: In Yes, Your Teen Is Crazy!: Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind, psychologist Michael Bradley provides parents insight, hope, and help in safely steering their teenage son or daughter through the often problematic years of adolescence. Dr. Bradley offers an informed and guided tour through a teenager's mind while explaining why teens act the way they do and the training and skills required to assist a teen in maturing into a strong, confident, productive, successful adult. Yes, Your Teen Is Crazy! is an invaluable addition to any personal or community library human growth and development collection, and a "must read" for the parents of teenage offspring!
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Summary: What a find...
Review: I saw this guy on t.v. talking about raising good teenagers in this crazy world, and ordered his book from Amazon.com immediately. I haven't finished it yet, but he is spot-on with advice on how to deal with your crazy teen. Plus he has more good advice on his website....
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Summary: A Must for All Parents
Review: This book has lots of research and experienced based antidotes on teens. It helps parents to get a greater understanding of what they will be dealing with in the teen years. It defines abnormality versus typical teen behavior and explains when it is time to go to a professional. It also gives tips on how to parent teens successfully. I loved it and found it very useful.Diane Keefe
Daily Lifelines for Teens & Preteens
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Summary: Crazy about this book!
Review: How many books have we read telling us how to raise our children with love and respect and we still lose our hair because the children we are raising with love and respect are strangers to us overnight?! This book is a must! Not only is it straightforward and frank, with humor interspersed to calm down our rising panic, it is also an honest approach to parenting/understanding/not understanding a teen's behavior especially in today's world. If you have even once said "...these teens today..." shaking your head, you need to read this book. It doesn't really matter if you have "one", you will have to deal with one, hear about one, or live next to one, and you will find this book infinitely helpful. It is by far the best book written to understand and cope, and perfect timing right now. So right now is the perfect time to read it!
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Summary: I knew it, I knew it!!
Review: My daughter is just getting into her teens, and this book is just what I needed to understand what she(and I) are going through. I used to just think teens were intentionally being difficult and that MTV and society were to blame. Now that I understand them better, I can say "bring on the crazyness." This book will be a tremendous help to me and a lot of parents.
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Summary: Teenage Trials Viewed as a Temporary Mental Disorder
Review: Before reading this review, you should know that this book contains language and subjects that would cause it to exceed an 'R' rating if it were a motion picture. These vulgarities, sexual references, and violence are essential to the book's content. The author also apologizes for the need to employ them. If your teenager had a serious case of the flu, you would be sympathetic and helpful. When the same teenager acts in ways you disagree with, are you inclined to be unsympathetic and challenging? Dr. Bradley argues in this intriguing book that your reaction should be very similar. Both are usually natural occurrences of body dysfunctions from which your teen will recover. Although that may sound like a psychological metaphor, Dr. Bradley points out that research with MRIs shows that the growth of the corpus callosum (which coordinates cross-brain functions) and development of the prefrontal cortex (which civilizes responses that the 'old brain' stimulates) are both occurring during the teenage years. Until those brain developments are more complete, your teen will react in bizarre ways that she or he will be unable to explain. I found that way of thinking about teenage behavior to be fascinating. My own description of the teenage years experienced by our children was that boys' behavior generally went downhill until age 13 when it bottomed out, to begin gradually improving thereafter. For girls, the decline in behavior seemed to begin around 13, and started to improve after age 20. Dr. Bradley points out that teens have always been like this. So what has changed? 'We've created a world dripping with sex, drugs, and violence and plunked our temporarily insane children in the middle of it.' Parents often treat their teens as though they can handle it. 'The fact is that cannot handle 'it' and they know this.' 'Teens left on their own as small adults not only . . . [make serious mistakes], they become depressed and rageful in the bargain.' Dr. Bradley's descriptions of the increased exposure to these influences on television, at home, in school, and with friends will leave you convinced that we have a more toxic environment for today's teenagers. He cites many case histories and statistics to make his points very compelling. The solution is for parents to change, and become a more positive influence on their teens. I was especially moved by his observation that parents need to stop mourning for their younger, happy, well-behaved child who will not return any time soon. He offers ten commandments for being a good parent: (1) Behave and think dispassionately; (2) Listen well and support emotionally; (3) Say little in a pleasant way; (4) Take the time you need to make an appropriate response; (5) Forget your personal pride in finding a response; (6) Avoid being physical, even friendly gestures can be annoying to teens; (7) Apologize for anything you have done wrong; (8) Accept the identity your teen is trying out; (9) Be true to your own beliefs; and (10) Remember that all this will eventually pass. The book offers excellent guidance on rule-setting and enforcement that are similar to what worked well with our now grown-up teens. The book also has sections on how to deal with common problems like privacy, angry teens, drugs, sex and dating, family problems, discussing legal versus illegal drugs. You are also given a sense of what is normal and abnormal behavior related to acting out, depression, eating disorders, and suicide risk. For any hint of abnormal behavior, get professional help fast (apparently 19% of teens have given serious thought to how they would commit suicide, and the depressed teens are not the ones most at risk). You are also given good ideas for how to get teens to professional help. One of the best parts of this section is pointing out how two parents should cooperate (if you and your spouse are together) and single parents can best cope.... I particularly liked two final pieces of advice. 'It turns out love is the magic, after all.' 'Keep your sense of humor!' After you finish reading this book, I suggest that you think about where your own behavior as a teen was irrationally impulsive. Dr. Bradley cites a horrible night of misbehavior that he had as a teen. I know I gave into my impulses in various occasions. Now imagine how you would have liked your parents to respond while this was going on, both with and without the house of cards falling in on you. Those recollections may be your best guide to how you can improve, and earn even higher trust and respect from your teen. Support emotional messes and illnesses as generously as you support physical ills!
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Summary: A must for parents of teenagers.
Review: Finally a book that understands teenagers and parents of teenagers in the 21st century. I have only begun reading this book, but can not wait to finish it and start using the information that I am learning.
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Summary: The only Teen book you need
Review: I've read several teen parenting books and feel that i wish i would have started with this one. It's the only one you need. This guy is straight up, funny, and shows how the world has changed and what you need to know as a parent NOW. I was a mom at 19 and my kids are 17 and 15, so I wish I would have been more prepared. It's not too late however for me or you to work on these adolecent years with this guys help. I highly recommend it for all parents, but you gotta be ready to do the work.
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Summary: Just want to add more stars...
Review: I'm so glad to see so many stars on this page. This is the kind of book, that:
1) spoke both to me and to my husband, though we traditionally
have had different views. We really came together on this !
2) makes you begin to feel that you are not as far out in left
field as you might feel. Some days it feels like 3 fields
away.
3) despite the title, which I had trouble with at first (before
reading it) this is a very compasionate look at kids AND their
parents, from someone who has included many insights from kids
and adults.
I can't recommend this enough, Also see Yes Your Parents Are
Crazy
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