The years from Ten to Fourteen are undeniably trying andturbulent years for parents and children alike. Adolescents developby leaps and bounds during these years, and often find themselvesuncomfortable with who they are and what they’re feeling. Parents,too, don’t know what to expect from the adolescent child who is atone moment hostile and glum, at the next carefree and happy. YourTen- to Fourteen-Year-Old was written by renowned child-careexperts Louise Bates Ames, Frances Ilg, and Sidney Baker to helpprepare parents for the incredible changes their children will begoing through. Included in this book: · Boy-girl relationships and sexual curiosity · Clubs, hobbies, activities, sports · Trouble at school · Family life and relationships with siblings · Physical development—the awkward adolescent · Summer jobs and independence · Money matters · Personal hygiene · Moodiness, loneliness · Smoking, drinking, drug use

In this dark gem of a book by the author of The Kiss, acomplex mother-daughter relationship precipitates a journey throughdepression to greater understanding, acceptance, freedom, andlove,. Spare and unflinching, The Mother Knot is Kathryn Harrison’scourageous exploration of her painful feelings about her mother,and of her depression and recovery. Writer, wife, mother of three,Kathryn Harrison finds herself, at age forty-one, wrestling with ablack, untamable force that seems to have the power to undermineher sanity and her safety, a darkness that is tied to herrelationship with her own mother, dead for many years but no less ahaunting presence. Shaken by a family emergency that reveals thefragility of her current happiness, Harrison falls prey to despairand anxiety she believed she’d overcome long before. A relapse ofanorexia becomes the tangible reminder of a youth spent trying toachieve the perfection she had hoped would win her mother’s love,and forces her to confront, understand, and ul

If you are looking for a book to give to a teenage reader,here's the reference you've been waiting for. Until now, there'sbeen no accepted guide to what's good, bad, or indifferent in theflood of books coming off the presses in the hot new category ofyoung-adult publishing. If it's true that you can't judge a book byits cover, it is especially true for teen books, as publishers takeaim at a new class of readers. The books land on shelves without ahistory, and so there is no standard by which to judge them. AnitaSilvey, one of the country's leading authorities on books for youngpeople, has interviewed teenage readers all over the country andimmersed herself in young-adult books, with an emphasis on bookspublished in the last five years. The result is this invaluable andvery readable guide for parents, teachers, librarians, booksellers,reading groups, and of course teens themselves. With its extendedessays describing 500 selections, parents will quickly see whattheir teenagers are actually reading -- and

A perennial bestseller, now revised and updated for a newgeneration of fathers, this readable, inspiring guide to the worldof infants, toddlers, and preschoolers is an indispensable treasuryof advice, ideas, and suggestions.

“I wonder sometimes if there’s something to the oldsuperstition about the number thirteen. Maybe that superstition wasoriginally created by the mothers in some tribe who noticed that intheir children’s thirteenth year, they suddenly became possessed byevil spirits. Because it did seem that whenever Taz was around,things spilled and shattered, calm turned into chaos, and temperswere lost.” So laments the mother of one thirteen-year-old boy, Taz, a teenwho, overnight it seemed, went from a small, sweet, loving boy to ahulking, potty-mouthed, Facebook/MySpace–addicted C student whodidn’t even bother to hide his scorn for being anywhere in theproximity of his parents. As this startling transformation floors journalist Beth Harpazand her husband, Elon, Harpaz tries to make sense of a bizarreteenage wilderness of $100 sneakers, clouds of Axe body spray (tohide the scent of pot?!), and cell phone bills so big they requirenine-by-twelve envelopes. In the process, she begins chroniclingh

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For every bewildered parent, there’s a kid longing to beunderstood. What parent hasn’t occasionally looked at their beloved butbewildering offspring and wondered, What in the world is hethinking? or Why is my sweet little girl acting like that? In this remarkable book, Shaunti Feldhahn and Lisa Rice take youinside the mind of teens and preteens through the same innovativeapproach that seized national attention in the best-selling booksFor Women Only, For Men Only, and For Young Women Only. Theyexplore the results of a nationwide survey and personal interviewswith more than 1,000 real-life teens and tweens to tackle thosethings parents often don’t “get” about their kids. You’ll hearfirst-hand about the longings that drive your kids’ seeminglyillogical decisions, the truth behind those exasperating “attitudeproblems,” and what your children would tell you if they couldtrust you to truly listen.