The Angry Teenager Why Teens Get So Angry And How Parents Can Help Them Grow Through It

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Summary: Quite helpful and easy to read
Review: I am a grandparent who is again parenting a young teen. I found this book helpful and easy to read. The author has extensive understanding of the teen and his tone is caring. It is not an in depth analysis of why teens are angry. It has, however, some really good insight and advice. I read the review of the teenager and he seems to prove the point of what an angry teen sounds like. Adolescence is a tumultuous time and it is essential that those caring about and for them have some understanding of their feelings. Read it, you will both enjoy it and learn from it. As a matter of fact I will purchase it for our Church Library!

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Summary: Angry Teens
Review: I ordered this book hoping for some concrete answers/assistance in helping my angry teen cope with his emotions. This book is filled with stories and examples of other angry teens but offers little in the area of realistic suggetions. Here is another professional who wastes time describing the symptoms and is unsure of the cure except to blame parents for their kids problems, i.e. an angry parent makes an angry teen. I suggest "Parent in Control" by G. Bodenhamer for some real help in dealing with defiant, rebellious teens. Good luck!

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Summary: An adolescent's opinion (For what it's worth)
Review: I'm an adolescent (aka: angry teenager) and after my mum bought this book, I decided it'd be a good idea to see what sorts of useful suggestions these 'parenting teenager' genre books had to offer for desperate ol' mum. Well, I'm not impressed. This book offers, in part, several cookbook situations where (from other reader's post) _defiant_, _rebellious_ teenagers are engaged in heated conversations with their overseers. Almost comically (though, I suppose most psychology has a definite farse element to it), the author points out a series of motives that a teenager will have in certain situations. Militaristically addressed as "Plan A", "Plan B", ..., "Plan N", we are to believe that the Angry Teenager(tm) is cool and calculated--full of alteriour motives and hidden secrets. It sure sounds like a criminal to me. The second distinct greviance I have with this authoritive guide is the conflicting, dual roles that parents are to assume when dealing with the teen. A) Like my fellow book reviewer, the parent is to be a harsh disciplinarian. Stick to the "No," demonstrate one's role as authority figure, and never lose the upper hand. B) As the book's title points out, parents are supposed to _help_ teens grow through it. The second role is as loving, caring, (mothering? sexism uh oh), gentle helper who guides her/his troubled youth during the most difficult years.

With my two greviances pointed out, I'll give some free advice to a prospective reader. Don't buy these books. (That includes other parent/teen guides available.) They will turn you into an analyser and psychologist. This is not the role for a successful parent. Keep a teen-parent relationship simple and responsitory. I think the key word is _reactionary_. I like that word. Why do the model teens in this book always state that they want to "learn by [their] own mistakes and not have [their] parents gloat over [their] failures?" Because they do! Educational professionals agree that hands-on, exploratory learning is a very effective technique for obtaining a mastery of some subject material. All years (not just teen) should be spent this way for ideal growth and development. And after all, this is what this book's title is all about: growth. As a parental reactionary, you always allow the individual (scrap teen) to take control of the situation and accept responsibility. Dictative parenting only brings out ====the defiance! ===

In sum, thumbs down on this book and its genre. Suggestion: talk with your individual and avoid philosophical, psychological looks into the mind of the angry teenager.