Fighting Invisible Tigers: A Student Guide to Life in "The Jungle"

by Earl Hipp

Book Overview

Proven, practical advice for teens on coping with stress.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0915793040
• ISBN13: 9780915793044
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 11 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 6 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

How to deal with great stress academically and elsewhere?

This book is excellent because the author deals definitively with the classic "stressors" in the lives of most students. The presentation provides practical coping strategies to identify stress and deal with it in a timely and constructive manner. There is coverage of the breathing techniques for greater oxygenation, as well as strategies to handle limited time and seemingly hostile peers and relevant others. The book advises students to do the following: o be assertive so that we have the time to attend to priorities o build personal relationships o take calculated risks in our decision-making o make decisions over analysis paralysis o stay healthy because we cannot do difficult sustained work unless we are healthy o deal with fear constructively and within the bounds of people and things we can control Overall, the volume would be a tremendous resource in order to assist students with personal planning at school and elsewhere.

The teen years are some of the more stressful of people's lives

The teen years are some of the more stressful of people's lives - high school, hormones ranging, preparing for the future. Now in a fully revised and informatively updated new edition, "Fighting Invisible Tigers: Stress Management for Teens" is a guide book for teenagers who need to reduce the stress in their hectic lives. "Fighting Invisible Tigers" outlines ten techniques that will assist teens in their desire to control their stress, such as breathing and relaxation exercises, time management, dealing with hostile peers/family/friends, and embracing an optimistic outlook. A top pick for community library parenting collections. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch

An excellent guide/resource for teens...as well as for parents & educators if you get the Leader's

I find this book, despite its small size & simple layout, to be an excellent guide/resource for teens. The analogy is interesting. When life is very stressful, it can feel as if you're in a jungle with lots of dangerous tigers --ferocious, hungry, invisible tigers, quietly stalking you. It covers everything from being assertive to building relationships, taking risks, making decisions, staying healthy, dealing with fears, using positive self-talk, & even growing a funny bone. There is also a "Self-Care for Tiger Bites" section which offers ready "first aid" for teens who need quick relief. Parents & /or educators who are also interested in this book, are advised to get hold of the Leader's Guide. It is designed to support & enhance the messages of the Student Book with a step-by-step curriculum in a dozen of easy-to-use sessions. It comes with two dozens of reproducible handout masters. Kudos to the authors for these two excellent guides/resources! I would strongly recommend readers to check out the publisher's website. They have an extensive repertoire of excellent guides/resources for kids, teens, parents as well as educators.

Cracking the Whip on Stress

This enjoyable, easy-read offers proven, practical advice to adolescents interested in acquiring stress and life management skills. Adults working with teens will find this book a valuable resource for helping adolescents understand what happens when they are stressed to the limits of their coping ability. The section "Self-Care for Tiger Bites" offers immediate first aid for those times when fast relief is needed to relieve overwhelming levels of stress. Using this book, teenagers and adults alike can crack the whip and tame the stress within.

entertaining, great illustrations, excellent tip for teens

Anxious and troubled and confused teens (most of the teen populations) will carry this portable guide to survival for several days and come away reassured that they are not alone, and come away with useful skills to make life better and easier. Even the teen readers like it!!