Teenagers 101: What a Top TeaCher Wishes You Knew About Helping Your Kid
Rebecca Deurlein
The emergence of a crisis in the relationship of parents with a teenager is the rule rather than the exception. The atmosphere in the house is tense to the limit: misunderstanding, mutual claims, unwillingness to make concessions. As a result, parents and their adult child suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of the barricades. How to build relationships? Should we loosen control and stop constantly patronizing and helping? How to "release" your beloved child into adulthood with minimal losses for both parties? Rebecca Derlaine, Doctor of Pedagogy, a 17-year high school teacher, will help you get through this crisis. She will tell you how not to succumb to the manipulation of her grown children, how to motivate them, develop perseverance and responsibility in them, how to help them gain healthy self-esteem. In a word - how to prepare teenagers for the difficulties of a new, adult life
