Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall · A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager by Wolf, Anthony E. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Part I - Adolescence

1 What Is Adolescence?

Physical Changes Intellectual Changes The Major Change: Turning Away from Childhood The Wish Not to Grow Up The Passion of Adolescence

2 What They Do and Why

Facing the Adolescent Mandate Friends Are Everything The Typical Teenager

3 Being the Parent of a Teenager

Letting Go Dealing with the Day-to-Day I Never Used to Act That Way

Part II - Between Parent and Teenager

4 Communication and Trust

Communication Trusting Your Lying Teenager

5 Controlling Your Teenager

The Parent Within Establishing the Boundaries Keeping the Rules in Place Obeying the Spirit of the Law Devious Defiance Direct Disobedience Parents’ Greatest Error Out of Control

6 Conflict

Battles (and What to Do About Them in General) Many Doors to Doom How Can You Ask Me to Take You to the Mall After What Just Happened Fifteen Minutes Ago? Beyond Words Jobs Around the House Intrafamilial Hassles

Part III - Reality and the World Outside

Parents’ Role in a New World 7 Divorce

I Want to Worry About Acne, Not This Moving It Was My Fault Caught In Between Parenting Alone Stepparenting

8 School

Academic Perfomance Troublemakers in School

9 The Electronic World

Competing for Their Attention Connection to Peers Nasty Content Turning It Off The Biggest Influence

10 Sex

Michael and Yvonne The New Age of Sex Should Teenagers Have Sex? Problems of Teenage Sex What Can Parents Do? Gay and Lesbian Teenagers

11 Drugs and Drinking

Drugs in America—Two Problems Parents’ Role

12 Suicide

AGE Boys versus Girls Suicide Attempts Why Do Teenagers Try to Kill Themselves? Intervention

Conclusion: The End of Adolescence Author’s Note ALSO BY ANTHONY E. WOLF PRAISE FOR DR. ANTHONY E. WOLF Copyright Page