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Are teenagers becoming more violent? More difficult to handle than they were 20 years ago? The statistics seem to be conflicting, but what is certain is that many parents find themselves as alienated from their teens as their teens do from them. Certainly, the increasing stresses and frustration of everyday life, unintentionally transferred from parent to child, only aggravate this condition. Moreover, at the foundation of the current "showcased" incidents of child homicide and the silent, not as newsworthy epidemic of child suicide, is a malaise among adolescents that most parents and teachers are aware of but don't discuss. The one factor that ties together all worries and fears about contemporary teens is that adults are dismayed that their children seem foreign and lost to them. This itself, without any form of violent acting out, torments many well-meaning and quietly anxious parents.
Hard Lessons examines the causes of teen malaise including drug use, outdated education models, parental absence, and the Internet as well as other media that provide a kick for adolescents bored with parental authority and classroom clichs. The book presents a new model and formula for firm, supportive and loving guidance that can begin to undermine the overwhelming and profoundly effective array of messages that influence our children, against which traditional parenting simply cannot compete. In short, it will explain to parents how to find out whether their child is in pain and, more importantly, what to do about it.
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Dr. Lauren Woodhouse is a Canadian psychologist and social scientist who works with youth offenders, both counselling in maximum security prisons and doing consulting work with penitentiary services. She also works as a frequent television commentator and international speaker, often called upon to explain and analyze youth gang violence and related child violence. She is the author of By Way of Sanity: 13 Principles for Successful Living in a Chaotic World.
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- PublisherC D G Books Canada Inc
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 077157682X
- ISBN 13 9780771576829
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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Hard Lessons: Understanding and Addressing the Dangerous Challenges Facing Today's Youth
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Book Description Card Cover. Condition: As New. True 1st Can. Ed., 1st Printing. Number line: 1 2 3 4 5 PC 04 03 02 01 00. Acknowledgements. Author's Note. Poem - Uninvited Stranger. Foreword by Terry Dreaddy, Chief Taber Police Service, Taber, Alberta, March, 2000. Introduction - Do You Know This Boy? Author, " . . . offers not only sound timely advice for parents of adolescents, but more importantly provides an insightful, compassionate analysis of the fragility of the teenage psyche, and why it is up to us, as a community to do whatever is necessary to guide them safely through this critical stage." (rear panel) DEDICATION: 6/6/00 Muriel, All the best ! Lauren SIGNED by author. Bookseller's Inventory # 050305. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000305
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