The Tween Years: A Parent's Guide for Surviving Those Terrific, Turbulent, and Trying Times - Softcover

The Tween Years : A Parent's Guide for Surviving Those Terrific, Turbulent, and Trying Times

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 176 pages. When Barbie and G.I. Joe are on their way out and makeup and questionable att ire are on their way in, parents are often perplexed at how to handle their quic kly and constantly changing child. The Tween Years offers some solutions. A gui de to understanding their child between the volatile years of 9 and 13, this boo k provides parents with a wealth of commonsense, no-nonsense advice on situation s ranging from simple parent/child conflicts to the essentials of communication and encouragement. Featuring humorous personal stories, parent questions and ans wers, and psychologist interviews, this warm, heartfelt approach will help paren ts successfully guide their child through the troubled waters between elementary and high school. Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Corwin (The Time-Ou t Prescription) describes a Tween as a combination of the word teen and in betwe en. Your Tween is in between childhood and the teenage yearsAa time of explorati on, growth, change, and turbulence. This observation may be apt, but Corwin, who cites no compelling authority beyond being the mother of a 12-year-old, offers little in the way of practical advice or fresh approaches to parents who have be en trying to cope with this latest developmental phase in their heretofore encha nting offspring. How to stimulate your child's intellect? Get him a subscription to Time or Newsweek. Under the heading Period! (after noting that menstruation is a highly sensitive subject also known as curse, the rag) Corwin suggests, You should talk with your daughter about why she menstruates and you might need to be prepared with Midol and a hot water bottle. The author does, however, offer s ome useful counsel about discipline and handling conflict: setting boundaries of. Artikel-Nr. 596o

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