Adolescence category: 1257 books
How to Deal With Your Acting-Up Teenager
Practical Help for Desperate Parents
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1986
An outstandingly courageous, honest and original approach to teenage acting-out. This book might save your family's sanity. -Louise Bates Ames, Gesell Institute of Human Development
The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up
Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder in the Adolescent and Young Adult Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The long-awaited follow-up to the million-copy bestseller The Out-of-Sync Child, presenting information and advice for tweens, teens, and young adults living with Sensory Processing Disorder, and their parents.
The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up will be the new bible for the vast audience of parents...
When Your Children Marry
How Marriage Changes Relationships with Sons and Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Marriage is an important transition in the life of any adult who marries. But often when a son or daughter gets married, their relationships with their natal families changes. It is often said that a 'daughter is a daughter all of her life, but a son is a son 'til he takes him a wife.' This book examines...
by Terri Apter
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2002
"Parents and young adults alike should benefit from the advice in Apter's insightful book."—Washington Post
What do young people at the threshold of adulthood really need and want? Why do so many responsible and motivated teenagers become young adults who are still dependent, financially...
Parenting Teens with Love and Logic
Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Parents need help to teach their teens how to make decisions responsibly—and do so without going crazy or damaging the relationship.
Parenting Teens with Love and Logic, from the duo who wrote Parenting with Love and Logic, empowers parents with the skills necessary to set limits, teach important...
The New Puberty
How to Navigate Early Development in Today's Girls
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
A generation ago, fewer than 5 percent of girls started puberty before the age of 8; today, that percentage has more than doubled. Early puberty is not just a matter of physical transformation—it’s also deeply psychological, with a myriad of effects that can put a girl at higher risk for behavioral...
by Bradley V. DeHaven
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Bradley V. DeHaven’s first book, Defining Moments, A Suburban Father’s Journey Into His Son’s Oxy Addiction, is the story about how addiction defined him throughout his life and made him the person he is today. The second book, The Addict Among Us, contains the stories of some of the over 400...
by Roger McIntire
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The long-awaited revised and updated edition of Teenagers and Parents: 12 Steps to a Better Relationship by award-winning author Dr. Roger McIntire adds discussions of teen addictions to computers, cell phones, and social media, while providing the daily advice that present-day parents need.Practical...
Looking Beyond
A Teen's Guide to the Spiritual World
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Who Do You Think You Are?
Have you ever wondered who you really are and what you are doing here? Believe it or not, the simple truth is that everything you want to know is already inside you. Renowned psychic and bestselling author James Van Praagh has learned a lot through his amazing ability to...
For Parents Only Discussion Guide
Helping You Get Inside the Head of Your Kid
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
A Handy Way to Find Out What’s Really Going On in There
Drawing on the results of a ground-breaking nationwide survey of teenagers, For Parents Only revealed several key surprises about the inner lives of kids. Whether your child already is a teenager or you see those years barreling at you...
Trust Me, Mom--Everyone Else Is Going!
The New Rules for Mothering Adolescent Girls
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2003
From "queen bees" to "gamma girls" to the "odd girl out," adolescent girls are all over the news. But whether a girl is popular or struggling to fit in, outgoing or reserved, her mother worries about how she is coping with her new, often scary, teenage social world: Who is she with, what is she really...
Raising a Son
Parents and the Making of a Healthy Man
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Boys pose special challenges for today’s stressed parents. In Raising A Son, the Eliums embrace the challenges--and the joys--of raising boys with compassion, commitment, experience, patience, and humor. This fully updated and expanded edition follows the psychological development of boys from infancy...
Before It's Too Late
Why Some Kids Get Into Trouble--and What Parents Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
This is a body of work which gives concerned parents and professionals instructive insight into the personality of "problem children" and gives practical suggestions for taking corrective and remedial steps before it's too late.
The Talk
What Your Kids Need to Hear from You About Sex
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
View our feature on Sharon Maxwell's The Talk.
A groundbreaking resource to help jump start an ongoing discussion between parents and teens about sex and sexuality Internet chat rooms, boy/girl sleepovers, reality TV . . . there’s more to “the talk” than ever before. Faced with a culture...