Raising Teens In The 21st Century

A one-stop resource with effective parenting strategies for raising happy, health, productive teens in the new millennium. Chapters are concise with solutions that are easy to understand and implement. Topics include everything from cell phones to spirituality, chores to curfews, grades to dating, videogames to family vacations, summer jobs to substance abuse, punishing to praising, arguing to negotiating, communicating to motivating.--Publisher.

A one-stop resource with effective parenting strategies for raising happy, health, productive teens in the new millennium. Chapters are concise with solutions that are easy to understand and implement. Topics include everything from cell phones to spirituality, chores to curfews, grades to dating, videogames to family vacations, summer jobs to substance abuse, punishing to praising, arguing to negotiating, communicating to motivating.--Publisher.

Globalization has given many of us unparalleled opportunities to live all over the world. But it has made being a teen more complicated than ever. Imagine having to discover your identity and place in the world when you keep having to move communities. How can we help these teens be happy, healthy, and resilient?

Parenting isn't an easy task, it becomes more tasking and challenging handling 21st-century teens. Teenagers are young adults that want to explore the world around them as much as they can, they would want to try new things, make their decision, and sometimes go contrary to the rules they lived by in childhood. Most times they would want more independence. They are easily influenced by their friends, this becomes a thing of concern to parents when their kids are influenced negatively. Lot of things happen in the life of a teen, and it's more complicated for 21st-century teens. In this book, 21st-century teens, you would be learning how to understand, handle and raise your child to be someone you would always be proud of. And much more!!

Do your adolescent children, clients, or students have what it takes to make it in the 21st century? Do you battle the eye-rolling, stalled communication, and frustrating attitudes of the teenagers in your life? Are you puzzled by the gap between adolescents and adults in your home? Do you get frustrated with this growing divide between your own ideas, values, and expectations and those of the adolescents and young adults in your life? Using examples from his clinical work, Dr. Fred Peipman provides solutions, ideas, and creative ways of viewing the challenges involved in working with and raising teenagers. Providing adults with practical and easy-to-apply solutions and suggestions, parenting across the Gap gives adults the resources they need to effectively communicate with and understand adolescents and young adults in the 21st century. This provocative, entertaining, and easy-to-read book provides parents with such skills as: -Expecting, but not accepting deception -Being consistent as a parent -Setting clear boundaries -Asking the right questions -Understanding adolescent and parental expectations -How to get more information from adolescents -Skills to keep communication (and information) flowing Dr. Fred Peipman is a licensed psychologist working in the San Francisco Bay area and with clients across the country. He has worked in wilderness therapy, in private practice, and in college and high school settings. Dr. Fred's fresh approach to adolescent, family, and individual therapy is creative, direct and honest. Using a healthy dose of humor and irreverence, he gets through to teens, young adults, and their parents in a disarming and skillful way.

The only parenting book based on a school-tested method As co-founder of Outreach Concern, Inc., one of the largest school-based counseling services in the country, Dr. Rick Capaldi developed a guide to raise kids into confident, independent adults. His "three Rs"—Read your child's environment, Regulate their emotional temperature, and Redirect their behavior—will help parents and teachers steer children toward emotional stability and success. This model has been effectively utilized in counseling over a half-million children and parents in over 900 schools, resulting in the development of cooperative, successful, and highly productive family relationships.

Top Tips for Raising Today's Teens is an essential book for parents and carers who are raising young people in the 21st Century. It is packed solid with useful tips and exercises on how to engage with and get to know your teen. Top Tips is a collaboration, designed to create honesty, confidence and mutual respect in the Parent-Teen relationship. It is like a conversation between parents and young people. With quotes, tasks and a space for notes, you can read Top Tips with your teen, as a way to create openness and warmth. Read as part of a workshop setting, or as your own Personal Tool Kit. This is the manual parents have always wanted, for ways to deal with issues around Behaviour, Communication, Education, Sex, Drugs & Alcohol and Gangs. An absolute must-have, if you are raising a modern teenager.

The Internet can be a scary, dangerous place especially for children. This book shows parents how to help digital kids navigate this environment. Sexting, cyberbullying, revenge porn, online predators…all of these potential threats can tempt parents to snatch the smartphone or tablet out of their children’s hands. While avoidance might eliminate the dangers, that approach also means your child misses out on technology’s many benefits and opportunities. In Raising Humans in a Digital World, digital literacy educator Diana Graber shows how children must learn to handle the digital space through: developing social-emotional skills balancing virtual and real life building safe and healthy relationships avoiding cyberbullies and online predators protecting personal information identifying and avoiding fake news and questionable content becoming positive role models and leaders Raising Humans in a Digital World is packed with at-home discussion topics and enjoyable activities that any busy family can slip into their daily routine. Full of practical tips grounded in academic research and hands-on experience, today’s parents finally have what they’ve been waiting for—a guide to raising digital kids who will become the positive and successful leaders our world desperately needs.