American Academy of Pediatrics Caring For Your Teenager: The Complete and Authoritative Guide - Softcover

Bashe, Philip

 
9780553379969: American Academy of Pediatrics Caring For Your Teenager: The Complete and Authoritative Guide
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0553379968 ISBN 13: 9780553379969
Verlag: Bantam, 2003

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Expert, authoritative guidance you can trust on helping your teenager cope with the changes and challenges of adolescence, from The American Academy of Pediatrics.

The critical, life-shaping years between twelve and twenty-one have been called the “turbulent teens.” But adolescence doesn’t have to be a time of anxiety and upheaval--for either teenagers or their parents. In this comprehensive, down-to-earth guide, the nation’s leading authority on the care of children helps parents and caregivers guide teenagers through the successful transition into young adulthood. Combining practical parenting advice with the latest medical, psychological, and scientific research, and covering every aspect of a teenager’s growth and development, the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Caring for Your Teenager offers indispensable information on:

• The stages of adolescence--what defines normal physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development
• Setting rules and limits--helping teenagers grow into responsible adults
• The twelve building blocks of self-esteem--from feelings of security and belonging to decision making, pride, and trust
• Instilling values and strengthening family ties
• The problem of peer pressure: giving your child the confidence to handle it
• Hormones--easing teenagers’ anxieties about their changing bodies
• Safeguarding your teenager from sexually transmitted diseases
• Adapting to different family types--from single-parent to adoptive to blended
• Helping your teenager cope with serious illness or death in the family, sibling rivalry, separation, or divorce

Plus
• Helping your teenager find the right college--or make an alternative choice
• Teens, the Internet, and the law
• A comprehensive medical guide to common ailments . . . and much more

Caring for Your Teenager is the one guide that no one entrusted with the care of a teenage child should be without--a book that provides parents with all the information they need to ensure that their child is on the right track to becoming a happy, healthy adult.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Donald Greydanus is the director of the Pediatrics Residency Program at MSU/Kalamazoo. He has published extensively on adolescent health, including 150 book chapters and more than 200 articles. He has testified before Congress on corporal punishment.

Philip Bashe has authored or coauthored 18 books and edited hundreds more. He has been the president of Basher Bookworks, Ltd. since 1987. In addition, he has worked as an editor at several national consumer magazines, as well as a writer for The New York Times Book Review, Buffalo Evening News, and other publications.

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Expert, authoritative guidance you can trust on helping your teenager cope with the changes and challenges of adolescence, from The American Academy of Pediatrics.
The critical, life-shaping years between twelve and twenty-one have been called the "turbulent teens." But adolescence doesn't have to be a time of anxiety and upheaval--for either teenagers or their parents. In this comprehensive, down-to-earth guide, the nation's leading authority on the care of children helps parents and caregivers guide teenagers through the successful transition into young adulthood. Combining practical parenting advice with the latest medical, psychological, and scientific research, and covering every aspect of a teenager's growth and development, the American Academy of Pediatrics' Caring for Your Teenager offers indispensable information on:
- The stages of adolescence--what defines normal physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development
- Setting rules and limits--helping teenagers grow into responsible adults
- The twelve building blocks of self-esteem--from feelings of security and belonging to decision making, pride, and trust
- Instilling values and strengthening family ties
- The problem of peer pressure: giving your child the confidence to handle it
- Hormones--easing teenagers' anxieties about their changing bodies
- Safeguarding your teenager from sexually transmitted diseases
- Adapting to different family types--from single-parent to adoptive to blended
- Helping your teenager cope with serious illness or death in the family, sibling rivalry, separation, or divorce
Plus
- Helping your teenager find the right college--or make an alternativechoice
- Teens, the Internet, and the law
- A comprehensive medical guide to common ailments . . . and much more
Caring for Your Teenager is the one guide that no one entrusted with the care of a teenage child should be without--a book that provides parents with all the information they need to ensure that their child is on the right track to becoming a happy, healthy adult.

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oritative guidance you can trust on helping your teenager cope with the changes and challenges of adolescence, from The American Academy of Pediatrics.

The critical, life-shaping years between twelve and twenty-one have been called the turbulent teens. But adolescence doesn t have to be a time of anxiety and upheaval--for either teenagers or their parents. In this comprehensive, down-to-earth guide, the nation s leading authority on the care of children helps parents and caregivers guide teenagers through the successful transition into young adulthood. Combining practical parenting advice with the latest medical, psychological, and scientific research, and covering every aspect of a teenager s growth and development, the American Academy of Pediatrics Caring for Your Teenager offers indispensable information on:

The stages of adolescence--what defines normal physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development&l

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PARENTING TEENAGERS IN TODAY'S WORLD

"Adolescence is when children start bringing up their parents."

--Anonymous

What if parenting a teenager were a job like any other, advertised in the want ads? Imagine picking up the classifieds and finding this:

We have an exciting, demanding position open in our department of growth and development. You will be in charge of grooming a small but dynamic team of up-and-coming young adults. Be prepared to put in endless hours and expect your authority to be challenged frequently. Fluency in two languages required: yours and theirs. Other prerequisites include infinite patience and a working knowledge of psychology, sociology, popular culture and all secondary-school and college curriculum. Must have car! Zero room for advancement; compulsory demotion in several years. Don't bother sending salary requirements; there are none.

If you didn't already have this job, you'd probably keep moving right on down the page.

Adolescence can be a challenge for parents. Your youngster may at times be a source of frustration and exasperation, not to mention financial stress. But these years also bring many, many moments of joy, pride, laughter and closeness. Too often, though, our culture seems to overemphasize the pervasive stereotypes of adolescence, many of them negative. Countless books, movies and news accounts create sensationalized portraits of disaffected youth flouting authority at every turn and often getting into serious trouble. As a result, the accomplishments of the good youngsters who make up the majority of America's approximately sixty million adolescents tend to be overshadowed.

Denver pediatrician Marianne Neifert objects to the barrage of disparaging messages parents receive about adolescence. As the mother of five children now grown to adulthood, she observes a parallel between the so-called "turbulent teens" and what is known as the "terrible twos." Just as not all toddlers go through the terrible twos in the same way, not every kid transforms into a defiant, capricious creature upon turning twelve. To assume that the teen years will be fraught with conflict can distort our perception of our children's behavior and result in a self-fulfilling prophecy, says Dr. Neifert, "because kids tend to rise or fall to our expectations of them."

Recent studies dispute the long-held belief that adolescence is inherently a time of turmoil. Four in five youngsters negotiate adolescence without any major problems, while in a 1998 nationwide poll of more than one thousand thirteen-to-seventeen-year-olds, 97 percent claimed to get along with their parents "very well" or "fairly well."

PARENTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Granted, adolescence is a time when kids come under the pull of their peers and fall susceptible to the attitudes and values promoted by TV, movies, morning-radio personalities, advertisements, sneaker-peddling sports stars and the latest brooding rock singer. But as a large nationwide study demonstrated, mothers and fathers still exert a great deal of influence in shaping their children's moral and ethical beliefs and character.

The National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health, published in 1997, surveyed nearly twelve thousand students in grades seven through twelve. Across the board, youngsters who said they felt secure in their parents' love and caring were far less likely to experiment with tobacco, alcohol and drugs, engage in sex or violent behavior, or contemplate suicide than those who claimed not to feel emotionally connected to their families.

What does the study tell us? "It says that parents have a tremendous influence on their kids," says Dr. Robert W. Blum, one of the researchers. "And that influence remained constant across the age group." Adds Dr. Lia Gaggino, a pediatrician in Kalamazoo, Michigan, "Parents don't appreciate how important they are."

HOW THIS BOOK CAN HELP YOU

Not only do parents need to prepare their youngster for the journey from childhood to adulthood, but they need to prepare themselves as well. Caring for Your Teenager contains the collective wisdom and experience of the approximately fifty-seven thousand primary-care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists who belong to the American Academy of Pediatrics. In it you'll find practical advice for helping teenagers adjust to the changes of adolescence and make good decisions about drugs, alcohol, tobacco, premature sexual activity and other threats to their physical and emotional well-being. You'll also learn strategies for helping teens who have struggled with these or other problems to reclaim a happier, more fulfilling future. Consider this book a guide to what these years may hold in store.

Naturally every youngster is unique, but the biological changes that occur in adolescence are accompanied by certain predictable psychological changes. This is a time when behaviors that are considered inappropriate in both young children and adults have to be accepted as normal, healthy manifestations of growing up-even if they age you in the process. Once you understand the developmental mechanisms at work, you may find that you're better able to identify which situations warrant your concern and which you can take in stride.

The following examples of adolescents in action may have you nodding in recognition at least once. The good news? Barring extremes, these behaviors are perfectly normal. The bad news? These behaviors are perfectly normal.

It's a Friday night, and your seventeen-year-old daughter is going to a friend's party. She trots downstairs wearing the vampiric makeup and all-black uniform of the self-proclaimed "gothic"-rock movement.

"I'm goth," she intones solemnly, while you struggle to suppress a grin. Or, if you're not sufficiently up on teen subcultures, perhaps you mistakenly think she said, "I'm Garth," leaving you scratching your head as she kisses you good-bye and heads out the door.

Cause for alarm? Not beyond the normal concerns you would have about any teenage party; namely the availability of alcohol and drugs-and parental supervision. In sculpting her own identity, a teenager routinely experiments with different personas. Each incarnation, expressed through fashion, hairstyles, interests, beliefs, a particular group of friends and so on, is typically short-lived. By next year she may have adopted an altogether different look and attitude.

As a boy, your son seemed to hang on to your every word and saw you as infallible. Remember how proud that made you feel? Now this fourteen-year-old points out your every shortcoming, and "Boy, Dad, you know everything!" has been replaced by an exasperated, "How would you know?"

It is common for adolescents to suddenly cast a critical eye on Mom and Dad, as they seek to separate from their parents and form their own system of values. Try not to take it too personally, but do make it clear that expressing himself disrespectfully is unacceptable.

Lately your thirteen-year-old daughter has been fixated on her ever-changing body and bodily functions. She's constantly asking her mother: "Do you think I'm too fat?" "When am I going to get breasts?" "Am I pretty?"

The body is a source of endless fascination-and anxiety-for self-conscious teens. This is also a time when kids tend to behold themselves as the center of the universe; consequently, the discovery of a pimple can seem like a catastrophe.

Since the start of the school year, your seventh-grader has grown moody and irritable. He spends increasing amounts of time barricaded in his room, and your attempts at finding out if something...

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Verlag
Bantam
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0553379968
ISBN 13 
9780553379969
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
624
Herausgeber
Greydanus Donald
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