Parenting the Teenage Brain: Understanding a Work in Progress

By Sheryl Feinstein

Book Overview

Teenagers are perplexing, intriguing, and spirited creatures. In an attempt to discover the secrets to their thoughts and actions, parents have tried talking, cajoling, and begging them for answers. The result has usually been just more confusion. But new and exciting light is being shed on these mysterious young adults.

What was once thought to be hormones run amuck can now be explained with modern medical technology. MRI and PET scans view the human brain while it is alive and functioning. To no one's surprise, the teenage brain is under heavy construction These discoveries are helping parents understand the (until now) unexplainable teenager. Neuroscience can help parents adjust to the highs and lows of teenage behavior. Typically, this transformation is a prickly proposition for both teens and their families, but the trials and tribulations of adolescence give teenagers a second chance to develop and create the brain they will take into adulthood.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578866219
• ISBN13: 9781578866212
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: R & L Education
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Very Informative

This book really helped me understand my 15 year old. It helped me understand why I kept getting these blank stares from her. She really didn't get it. I would recommend it to anyone with teenagers.

Extremely reassuring!

I have three teenagers who have become very challenging, seemingly overnite, and this book made me realize that they are all normal and that I am not a terrible parent. I am actually rereading it for a second time in one year. I highly recommend this book to anyone with a teen.

Parenting the teenage brain, if you have teenagers you need this book. tghis book.

Parenting the teenage brain is an excellent book. It was very easy to read and very informative about how best to guide your teenager through their teen years. I gained valuable insight into why my son acts the way he does. It has been very helpful in dealing with the teenager in my house.

a must read for parents of teens

I came upon this book title by mistake, but I see it was not a mistake at all! I have two teenage girls, 15yrs, and 18yrs old. Both completely different in all ways, this book has truly helped me individualize my teens behaviour and gave me the tools to work with them and mostly to just understand them. It is written in a clear easy short chapter format which made it easy to pick up at any given time to find relevant infomation. I will be sending a copy to my sister who has four children not yet teenagers.