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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780502503321

Autore

Londergan Betty

Titolo

The agony and the agony [[electronic resource] ] : raising your teenager without losing your mind / / Betty Londergan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Da Capo Press, 2008

ISBN

0-7867-2685-7

Edizione

[1st Da Capo Press ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Disciplina

649.1235

649.125

649/.125

Soggetti

Child rearing

Parenting

Parent and teenager

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: Welcome to Agony; Stage 1: Denial; 1 First Signs of Adolescence and Other Horrors; 2 Mouth and Lip Disorders of Early Adolescence; 3 Impending Assaults on Parental Sanity; Stage 2: Anger; 4 The Minefields; 5 Oh, the Sneaky, Underhanded Things They'll Do; 6 Coping Mechanisms; Stage 3: Depression; 7 "Worst-Case Scenario" Is Sugarcoating It; 8 Why Bother?; 9 Lights at the End of the Tunnel; Stage 4: Bargaining; 10 Ground Rules: You Versus Them; 11 Hurdles on the Track to Consensus; 12 How to Quid-Pro-Quo Like a Pro; Stage 5: Acceptance; 13 Blinding Flashes of the Obvious

14 The Beauty of Perspective15 The Promised Land; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Serving up more attitude than a grounded 15-year-old, a laugh-out-loud, true-to-life guide to surviving your teen's surly, slothful, sassy adolescence