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| Get Out of My Life, But First Take Me and Alex into Town: A Parents Guide to the New Teenager |  | Authors: Anthony Wolf, Suzanne Franks
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1,362,940
Media: Paperback
Pages: 228
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1861973411
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
EAN: 9781861973412
ASIN: 1861973411
Publication Date: March 14, 2002
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Product Description
This is the best survival guide for parents who find themselves marooned among volatile and incomprehensible aliens on Planet Teen. Area maps cover the ground - with chapters on school, sex, drugs, suicide, and so on - but it's the title of Chapter 2, 'What They Do and Why,' that best captures the book's spirit and technique. One key mistake is getting dragged into no-win conflicts instead of having the wisdom to shut up at the moment when shutting up would be most effective - albeit the least satisfying - thing to do. There are also some nicely tongue-in-check samples of 'ideal' communication - the stuff we imagine might get said by better parents. After one such rosily cooperative and considerate interchange between a father and his adolescent son, the book offers the following two-edged comfort: 'The above conversation has never happened. Never. Not in the whole history of the world.' Message: parenting adolescents is inherently difficult. Efforts shouldn't be judged by otherworldly standards.
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