The Angst Adolescence: How to Parent Your Teen and Live to Laugh About It Audiobook (Free)
- Karen Saltus
- 5 h 0 min
- Gildan Media
- 2015-10-01
Summary:
Being a good mother or father is among the most difficult, yet most fulfilling, jobs a person can possess in his or her lifetime. Being the parent of a teen is an especially daunting phase from the journey. As parents start to note the significant changes that include adolescence (physical changes brought about by puberty, the continuous angst and moodiness, and of course the traditional eye-rolling and the I-know-it-all attitude), they wonder just what happened to their happy, nice, and affectionate youthful boy about The Angst Adolescence: How to Parent YOUR CHILD and Live to Have fun ABOUT ANY OF IT or female. Parents sit down by amazed-and often lost and unprepared-as they see their child morph and mutate into a full-blown pubescent display of emotions.
The Angst of Adolescence: How to Parent YOUR CHILD and Live to Have fun About It, written inside a conversational, informative, humorous and relatable style, promises to provide trustworthy resource for parents of teens who are trying to find answers and guidance about how exactly to maneuver their way through this tricky developmental period. Dr. Sara Villanueva, a prominent psychologist specializing in the adolescent years, shares relevant research findings so that parents can be educated of the facts instead of making assumptions based on ubiquitous but questionable sources. Most of all it will offer parents of teens with perspective amid angst so they can come away with the sense that:
They aren’t alone in their experience of raising teens; many, many people have gone through it and we are able to all relate with and learn from one another.
The majority of what your teen is feeling and expressing is normal and falls within the expected range of behavior for adolescent advancement.
Despite the issues involved with parenting teens, we have to take time to concentrate on the positive things in life and live with this child through the tough adolescent years in order that we emerge on the other side with friendship and a deeper bond.
Being a psychologist and mom of four, the author stocks both research-based and first-hand advice on how best to navigate the teenager years and live to giggle about it.
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