This book is for any parent-which includes all of us-who has ever battled with the enormous responsibility of parenting.
Long ago, a method of childrearing that simply does not work was sold to parents. Many common parenting techniques, including time-outs and incentive systems, are based on molding behavior rather than nurturing people. These approaches don't assist kids in acquiring life skills or dealing with their complicated emotional needs. It is simple to understand why so many carers feel lost, exhausted, and worried about failing their charges when one takes into account parents' challenging relationships with their upbringings.
A licensed psychologist offers a simple introduction to the "Method To Parenting Teens" and how parents may adapt to parenting children in an emotionally challenging world.
Children today face unmatched academic, social, and family stressors, as well as virtually limitless access to social media and the Internet. As early as eight years old, children are exposed to information, ideas, and feelings that are beyond their cognitive capacity to comprehend. For thirteen-year-olds, it is therefore already too late to save the conventional "teen parenting" strategies.
Anyone who works with girls today is aware that today's girls are more anxious, sad, and self-harming than ever before. This includes our daughters, students, and girls next door. No one has been able to provide a sincere response to the question "Why?"
The positive news is also contained in our new knowledge of the biology of contemporary girlhood. Although the teenage female brain is particularly adaptive and receptive to certain kinds of support and scaffolding during puberty, it is also a period when this phase is significant and sensitive. In fact, given the right conditions, scientists now know that a girl's innate sensitivity to her environment might
