TITLE: 7 THINGS YOUR TEENAGER WON’T TELL YOU: And How to Talk About Them Anyway
AUTHOR: Jenifer Lippincott and Robin Deutsch, PH.D.
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books, New York, NY, Copyright 2005
ISBN: (10) 0812969596, (13) 978-0812969597
DESCRIPTION: Soft cover, Pictorial cover, Glued binding, 223 pages, Measures approx. 5 1/4 x 8 inches
CONDITION: Like New, Bright colorful cover, Pages white, clean and tight, Gift quality
JACKET CONDITION: No Dust Jacket, As issued

ABOUT THIS BOOK: Every teenager keeps secrets. If you're like most parents, you worry about what your kids don't tell you. In this guide to keeping pace -- and peace -- with teens, authors Jennifer Lippincott and Robin Deutsch offer a deceptively simple plan for talking to your kids that's based on a simple set of rules: Teens need to stay safe, show respect, and keep in touch.

A parent's guide to communicating with their teenage children explains how to break down barriers and overcome pitfalls that hinder parent-teen interaction and emphasizes teen safety, mutual respect, and the need to keep in touch while offering practical advice on how to deal with difficult topics confronting teens.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

PART I: Our Jobs Redefined

INTRODUCTION
• Job Description

THE RULES OF PLAY
• Our Own Adolescence -- A Look Back
• Today's Adolescents -- What's Changed?
• The Case for the Rules of Play
• Selling the Rules of Play to Our Adolescents
• Rule #1: Stay Safe
• Rule #2: Show Respect
• Rule #3: Keep in Touch

PART II: The Seven Things

1. THEIR BRAINS ARE TO BLAME
• The New News About the Adolescent Brain
• The Adolescent Brain's Control Mechanisms
• What We Need to Know About the Limbic System
• What We Need to Know About the Prefrontal Cortex
• The Great Brain Drain
• Substance Abuse and the Adolescent Brain
• Sleep and the Adolescent Brain
• How to Deal

2. TRUTH IS AS MAILEABLE AS THEIR FRIDAY NIGHT PLANS
• The Anatomy of an Adolescent Lie
• Categories of Lies
• Getting at the Truth
• How to Deal

3. CONTROLLING THEM IS NOT THE POINT
• The Control Conundrum
• A New Regime
• Taking Their Tempraments
• Playing with Our Adolescents
• Games It's Okay to Play
• How to Deal
• Command of Control

4. THE ADOLESCENT MIRROR DISTORTS
• What We See Is Not What We Get
• What They See Is Not What We See
• The Only Adolescent Perspective -- Their Own
• Time Is on Their Side
• The Art of the Adolescent Conversation
• How to Deal

5. FRIENDS DON'T MATTER AS MUCH AS WE MAY THINK
• Friends Versus Companions
• Their Reality Shows
• Is a Friend of Our Adolescent's a Friend of Our?
• The Seven Myths of Peer Influence
• Friendship Formations
• How to Deal

6. WHEN WE SAY NO, THEY HEAR MAYBE
• Reality Bytes
• Values Clarification
• The Great Adolescent (Parenting) Inhibitors
• Our Moral Addresses
• Gender Balancing
• How to Deal

7. TAKING RISKS GIVES THEM POWER
• The Nature of Risk
• The Power of Risk
• Balancing the Power Scales
• Risks Past and Present
• Degrees of Risk
• How to Deal

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