Product Name: Get Out of My Life but First Could You
Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall: A Parent’s Guide to the New
Teenager, Revised and Updated
Rating: 9
Where to Buy: http://www.amazon.com
Description: This book is a guide for parents of teenagers. Why
they act the way the do and how we as parents can understand
and deal with the problems and issues our teenagers face.
Review: “Where have you been and why did you lie to me and
say you were going to the library when you never showed your
face there?” Sound familiar? If you are a parent of a teenager
it’s either happened or will happen soon. It’s all a part of
raising a teenager. Do we as parents understand it? No, but
this book can help you and your teenager both to better deal
with situations like this.
This book is filled with issues that we as parents and our
teenagers face. Things such as sex, suicide, school, lies,
sneaking out, their beloved video games and much more are
talked about in this book. I thought I knew the answers to
these things, but found out I really didn’t have a clue. I
spent more time yelling and crying than I did getting to the
root of the problems. This book gave me a lot of ways to stop
that type of behavior and resume a healthy and happy
relationship with my teenager.
I really enjoyed the chapter called "What They Do and
Why." It really gave me some insight on why my teenager does
things that make no sense to me. I finally began to see how
teenagers and their lives have changed since I was a teenager
and why it was so hard for me to grasp it. I read something in
that chapter weekly to help me remain confident and keep calm
during these trying times with a teen.
Raising a teenager in this day and age is not easy for any
of us. We expect a lot from our children and put some pretty
high expectations on them and they retaliate. It’s just how it
is today. With this book I have learned to lower some of those
expectations and realize I can enjoy my role as the parent of a
teenager.
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