You and Your Adolescent: A Parent's Guide for Ages 10 to 20

By Laurence Steinberg and Ann Levine

Book Overview

With the growing problems of teenage pregnancy, AIDS and violence that adolescents have to face, this updated edition of You and Your Adolescent is an important book for parents. Laurence Steinberg and Ann Levine reassure and advise parents, helping them understand family communication, the physical and emotional changes of puberty, intellectual and moral growth, peer pressure, sex, drugs, cigarettes, alcohol and other challenges this period brings. They also provide special advice for single parents, working parents and stepparents. Divided into three periods: 10 to 13, 14 to 17 and 18 to 20, You and Your Adolescent is both easy to read and follow. By taking the mystery out of adolescence, the authors aid parents in making their teenagers development a period of satisfying growth toward adulthood.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062720023
• ISBN13: 9780062720023
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Harper & Brothers
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 5.3" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

Delivered as advertised

Product arrived as advertised. The book is very helpful. You should buy this book long before your child reaches adolescence. The book explains techniques that you will need to use over years prior to your child turning 13. If you do that, it should make solving the issues that arrise in adolesence much easier to solve.

Excellent! Concise & current resource for parents of teens

Very supportive & realistic. Easy to read. Helpful. Gives a parent an understanding of what the teen is thinking & feeling. Has practical & positive ideas/recommendations for challenging issues. Offers MANY tips for guiding your adolescent into a healthy & content adulthood.