QUESTIONS PARENTS ASK

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Summary: Don't Ask For Advice While You're In the Middle of a Crisis
Review: I often randomly select a book from our files to read and review. Having just sent my oldest off to college, and with two other teens at home, I found the book to be more of an affirmation of raising them correctly, than dealing with specific time-sensitive issues. We dealt with more than our share of medical, educational and family issues as the children were growing up, and the one thing I learned was that no advice is the correct advice when you are in the middle of a crisis. If the problem is so severe that you are even tempted to write to a neutral third (or fourth or fifth)party, chances are you won't be able to read the answer on a neutral basis (that is, if you GET an answer). The questions were a bit polite, but poignant, and would need to be rewritten for the new millenium (and corresponding teen issues), but it's nice to thumb through the book and land on a question/issue to find that you would have dealt with it the same way. There are some incredible letters from "concerned grandparents" that will amaze you with the audacity, and led me to wonder if they were actual letters or just an exaggerated essay in which to attach an appropriate "speech." In general, a good book but, as the subject line reads, "Don't ask for advice while you're in the middle of a crisis."