Get Out of My Life, but First Take Me and Zoe into Town : A Guide to the New Teenager

Wolf, Tony; Franks, Suzanne

ISBN 10: 1861973411 / ISBN 13: 9781861973412

Published by Profile Books, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Get Out of My Life, but First Take Me and Zoe into Town : A Guide to the New Teenager
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1861973411
• ISBN 13: 9781861973412
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 7 ounces

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Tony Wolf is a psychologist and author of a number of successful guides on different aspects of parenting. He has teenage children. Suzanne Franks is a television producer, journalist and author of Having None of It (Granta). She has a teenage daughter and two younger children. She lives in London.