Product Description: Seeing teenagehood as a journey along a path, ultimately to freedom, this book is both a considered overview of teenagehood and a practical, down-to-earth guide for parents facing particular challenges.

Product Description: <div>With clear guidance and advice from the viewpoint of a seasoned teacher and trainer, <em>Getting on Better with Teenagers</em> explains how building a better rapport with your class can support students' academic, social and personal development, as well as improving behaviour issues...read more

Product Description: Essential for adult youth leaders, educators, and other adults who work with youths, this helpful book offers valuable tools for providing supportive leadership to youth. An introduction to Search Institute's Developmental Assets® framework is provided, and the six Support Assets (Family Support, Positive Family Communication, Other Adult Relationships, Caring Neighborhood, Caring School Climate, and Parent Involvement in Schooling) are outlined in detail so that both novices and seasoned professionals can incorporate these principles in their daily work...read more

Explores how fierce social competition among parents can affect a child's life, offering helpful advice on when to step in and out of a child's conflicts with others; analyzing the impact on a child of how a parent handles risky behavior, academic performance, sports, and parties; and explaining how unspoken assumptions about important issues can sabotage parents' ability to work together. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Explores how fierce social competition among parents can affect a child's life, offering helpful advice on when to step in and out of a child's conflicts with others; analyzing the impact on a child of how a parent handles risky behavior, academic performance, sports, and parties; and explaining how unspoken assumptions about important issues can sabotage parents' abilitiy to work together. 100,000 first printing.

Explores how fierce social competition among parents can affect a child's life, offering helpful advice on when to step in and out of a child's conflicts with others; analyzing the impact on a child of how a parent handles risky behavior, academic performance, sports, and parties; and explaining how unspoken assumptions about important issues can sabotage parents' ability to work together. Simultaneous.

Product Description: As a major economic, relational, and identity resource, communication is crucial to the well-being and success of young people. And yet adolescents are typically characterized in the media as inadequate communicators, whose language practices adults bemoan as unintelligible and deleterious...read more

Product Description: Fun ways to encourage family and other youth-adult conversations, this book is filled with intriguing questions, guaranteed to stretch the imagination and bring out each other's personality and true self.

Product Description: Providing hope, encouragement, and practical advice, this book gives parents the tools to reach out and help their teens connect with other responsible and supportive adults.

Product Description: How can you provide effective support to young people aged between 12 and 19 years by initiating, developing and ending, one-to-one helping relationships with them? Of course, no-one can gain the expertise to deal with the whole range of issues and challenges that adolescents face, but some particularly sensitive and entrenched problem areas are described here, where young people should always be referred to qualified professionals for support...read more

Product Description: Providing 50 commonsense ways to connect and build assets, this resource gives parents, caregivers, teachers, childcare workers, and youth workers practical ways to connect with young people. Each inspirational idea contains a reference to a supportive research study or expert opinion and includes action items for straightforward advice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Helping teens work through conflicts with each other and adults has never been more important. This comprehensive new resource gives secondary teachers over 150 ready-to-use worksheets to help students build successful working relationships with peers, teachers, parents, and other adults. Each of the five sections-Family Bonding, Character Development, Community Involvement, "It Takes a Whole Village to Raise a Child," and Choices, Changes and Challenges-is filled with activities that help students practice skills in self-improvement and collaborating with others to build more peaceful environments. The activities focus on issues such as rejection, injustice, violence, materialism, and substance abuse and encourage thoughtful, written responses that lead to meaningful dialogue. Printed in a big 8?" x 11" spiral-bound format, the activities can be easily photocopied for groups or for individual students.