Teenagers Parenting

Computersucht, Komasaufen, Schulmüdigkeit - selten gibt es positive Schlagzeilen über Jugendliche. Und das, obwohl die Mehrheit selbstbewusst, verantwortungsvoll und mit viel Eigeninitiative in die Welt startet. Mit Jugendjahre wollen Remo H. Largo und Monika Czernin Verständnis für die Jugendlichen und ihre schwierigen Entwicklungsaufgaben wecken und den Blick dafür schärfen, dass sie es sind, in deren Händen die Zukunft liegt.

Jedes Mutter-Tochter-Team erlebt sie anders: die erste Menstruation der Tochter. Manchmal kommt und geht sie wieder, leise und ganz ohne Schmerzen. Sie kann der Tochter aber auch Unannehmlichkeiten bereiten und das erschwert Dir als Mutter die Situation. Wie sie auch abläuft, die erste Menstruation Deiner kleinen Tochter - sie ist jetzt kein Mädchen mehr, sondern wird zur erwachsenen Frau und braucht Dich jetzt an ihrer Seite. Bereite Dich optimal auf die erste Periode Deines Mädchens vor und gib ihr eine wertvolle und schöne Erfahrung auf ihren weiteren Lebensweg mit.

After all the testing and touring and applying, your child has been accepted to college. Congratulations! Now what? Distilling lessons and sharing stories (some cautionary, some entertaining, all helpful) from her long college advisory career, three-time Ivy League Dean Monique Rinere presents a unique month-by-month road map to a college experience that is rich, rewarding, and successful for teens and parents alike.

Sfrontati e fragili, ostili e desiderosi di affetto, gli adolescenti rappresentano una sfida per gli adulti, ma soprattutto per loro stessi, alle prese come sono con la difficile costruzione del proprio io e del proprio ruolo sociale. Anche se alcuni drammatici fatti di cronaca sembrano insondabili è compito degli adulti capire. Ogni generalizzazione produce soltanto pregiudizi e la "miscela" dell'adolescenza, per non diventare esplosiva, richiede adulti coerenti nell'esempio e nella guida, capaci di attenzione e di rispetto.

Dr. Mark J. Luciano provides insights from his own family therapy practice and the latest research to help your teen discover newfound courage and independence. By helping your teen build the qualities of confidence, independence, initiative, identity, and trust, you can instill the desire to take risks and achieve goals, laying the foundations of success for the rest of their lives.

Andy Bramante left his successful career as a corporate scientist to teach public high school - and now helms one of the most remarkable classrooms in America. Bramante’s unconventional class at Connecticut’s prestigious yet diverse Greenwich High School has no curriculum, tests, textbooks, or lectures, and is equal parts elite research lab, student counseling office, and teenage hangout spot. United by a passion to learn, Mr. B.’s band of whiz kids set out every year to conquer the brutally competitive science fair circuit.

Teenagers often turn to their peers to ask for advice but have no idea how to put it into practice. Advice seems easy to come by but hard to fit into an exact situation. Making Sense of Life: A Guidebook for Teens and Parents uses real-life situations and personal stories to help guide teens toward asking the right questions and making the best decisions for every circumstance.

Take an epic journey based on the true-life story of a Girl Scout troop leader and her daughter. As one of the Girl Scouts' most successful troop leaders, the author guides you through inspirational life stories about an amazing group of young women. She lends meaning to real character development, shares how growing pains can create powerful learning moments, and how this group of girls found true purpose while having fun. The story begins with the author, who is reluctantly drafted into troop leadership, surrounded by the demands of a busy family life and career.

A story of thrill-seeking teens, of hope and love, freedom and failure, Kickflip Boys reveals a sport and a community that have become a refuge for adolescent boys who don’t fit in. Ultimately, it’s the survival story of a loving modern American family, of acceptance, forgiveness, and letting go.

Für viele Eltern ist die Beschäftigung ihres Kindes mit der digitalen Welt ein rotes Tuch und Ursache nerviger Streite am Familientisch. Doch damit verbauen wir unseren Kindern essenzielle Zukunftsmöglichkeiten. Denn für sie ist es immens wichtig, den digitalen Wandel zu erleben und aktiv mitzugestalten. Das Buch von Verena Gonsch zeigt, dass wir in die digitale Welt unserer Kinder eintauchen müssen, um sie besser zu verstehen.

What if you as a mother concentrated on your daughter for one year? Who might she become? A Voice Becoming is for moms who want to usher their daughters into womanhood but know they need more than tips, techniques, and programs. This is for moms who to desire to chart a course for their daughters that helps them know the story of God they are entering and the global sisterhood of women they are joining. A Voice Becoming is written by a fellow sojourner, still in the middle of the journey.

Parenting teenagers is one of the biggest challenges parents face. New realities make becoming independent more difficult. Teens are traveling a different road and are moving at a different pace than those of previous generations. Today's cultural environment is more complicated and confusing than ever. But fear not! Family expert Jim Burns provides a handy guide for parenting teens.

Christian teens care very much about their connection and relationship with God, but they are also experiencing all the ups and downs of teenage life, with the attendant joys and sorrows of growing up. This book, filled with stories written by Christian teens for Christian teens, helps teens who care about their faith navigate their teenage years.

When did that sudden gap divide your home into territories staked and claimed with music blasting through the halls, and fists banging on doors to turn down the stereo/TV/video game? Teens, when did you start seeing your parents as your enemies instead of your heroes? And parents, when did you start seeing your teens as crazy little demons instead of your loving children?

It's the summer holidays and eleven-year-old loner, Seymour, lodged with a fussy guardian in an inner-city suburb, is bored and unhappy in his confined world. By chance he meets Angie, beautiful, charismatic Angie. He is bewitched, and his world is opened as she takes him on unexpected holiday outings and shopping sprees. Angie, however, is not what she seems.

Now with It's Ok If You're Clueless, Terry McMillan brings her trademark wit and sass to every son and daughter about to take their first tentative steps into adulthood. Offering such nuggets as "Sit up straight", "Don't listen to your parents", and "Bring your laundry home", as well as "See the world" and "Read anything and everything", It's Ok If You're Clueless is packed with the commonsense advice and conversational tone that have made her novels best sellers.

Pubertät ist, wenn man die eigenen Kinder nicht wieder erkennt. Eben noch hat man sie in den Schlaf gewiegt, und auf einmal darf man ihr Zimmer nicht mehr betreten und die ganze Familie kommuniziert überwiegend per Kurznachricht. Claudia Herrmann hat gleich zwei Teenager zuhause. Sie nimmt's mit Humor und erzählt in ihrem Hörbuch vom Haarkult ihres Sohnes, veganen Ambitionen ihrer Tochter, Versetzungsgefahr, ersten Freunden und warum fast alles, was sie als Mutter dazu zu sagen hat, "voll ungechillt" ist.

Was kann Erziehung in der Pubertät noch erreichen? Jesper Juul: In der Pubertät fangen Eltern oft an mit einer Art Turboerziehung, um in letzter Minute noch alles richtig zu machen. Das kann nicht funktionieren. Jetzt kommt es auf die Beziehung an. Dennoch sollten Eltern deutlich sagen, wenn sie nicht einverstanden sind mit dem, was Jugendliche tun, oder? Jesper Juul: Unbedingt! Kinder müssen wissen, was denkt mein Vater oder meine Mutter über diese Sache. Natürlich werden sie nicht zustimmen und sagen: "Eigentlich hast du recht."

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In this informative and entertaining book, Dr. John E. Whitcomb shares his proven strategies for teaching teenagers to manage their own money. By empowering teens to control their own finances, parents can avoid ever getting involved in another argument about expenses. Based on the author’s experiences as a youth in boarding school, this approach is sure to help teens learn the important money-management skills they aren’t taught elsewhere.