How to Survive Your Child's Rebellious Teens - New Solutions for Troubled Parents

J.B. Lippincott Company, 1979. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This book is intended to help anxious, worried, perplexed, enraged, or utterly despairing parents whose teenage or preteen children's rebellious actions range from the normal to the dangerously extreme. Based largely on the principles of Families Anonymous (FA), a self-help group whose members around the country are paren ts of troubled young persons, How to Survive Your Child's Rebellious Teens aims at enabling parents to: Look more calmly and objectively at their adolescent's rebelliousness and judge whether concern is needless or warranted; Spot danger signals that indicate the problem is more than just a phase; Become less anxious about the situation, regardless of how worrisome it is; Relieve their own guilt, their common reaction when things go wrong with their children; Uncover ways in which they may unwittingly be encouraging undesirable behavior on the part of their teenagers; and more. Using case his t ories of FA parents, as well as in-depth research into experiences and findings of professionals, Myron Brenton analyzes such crucial areas of concern as: Why adolescents rebel; When not to overrea c t to teenage rebellion; Why lectures and punishments don't work; and many more. The bottom of the spine slightly bumped. The dustjacket top & bottom of the spine is slightly bumped and a 1/8" tear o n th e top edge of the back cover..