Trauma-Rama: Life's Most Embarassing Moments...and How to Deal (Seventeen (Hardcover))

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Summary: The Real Deal
Review: As not only a high school student, but also as a former clutz, this book made a big impact. Dealing with embarrassment and humiliation is a difficaul task for teens. Wearing the same dress as the most popular girl in school can ruin a girls' self-esteem. In this book there are detailed ideas in which teens can face up to there problems. Being that I am a former clutz, I know how it feels to be humiliated. But within the bindings of this book you can find ways of dealing with those humiliations. I completely recommend this book.

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Summary: Kind of makes me wish I'd paid more attention to Seventeen
Review: Subtitled Life's Most Embarrassing Moments and How to Deal, this is recognizable to all Seventeen Magazine as a regular feature in the magazine. Culled from the letters to the "Most Embarrassing Moments" column, from teen interviews, and the author's own horrific (are there any other sort?) teen memories, Trauma-rama promises to both titillate and inform. The stories culled feed the necessary schadenfreude of teen embarrassment ("My misadventure was bad, but hers--!!!") but also describe how to deal with or dodge "traumas". Despite my gut feeling that "trauma" is a flailed chest or parent dying, I do recognize the appeal of common sense social advice wrapped up in teen-friendly packages ("How to talk to guys in 4 easy steps") and organized around the sort of mishaps that make ordinary teens sick to their stomach, such as "Love Bites", "Friendship Fallout", and "Bodily Dysfunctions".