Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall: A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager, Revised and Updated
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Book Reviews of Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall: A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager, Revised and Updated
Book Review: An absolute read
Summary: 4 Stars
As a parent of a 15 year old son and an 11 year daughter, I HIGHLY recommend this book. It sat on my night stand for sometime, but once I opened the book, I couldn't put it down. It helped me to realize the differences and the similarities in remembering my teenage years and now being in the parental role, that life can be hard... some things have changed greatly while a lot of things are still the same. It is a very straight forward book. Book Review: Must read
Summary: 5 Stars
Having two teenagers, one of each sex, I found this book extremely insightful. It explains why they act the way they do, and tells how to "handle" these turbulent times. A MUST READ for all who are rasing or about to raise a teenager.Book Review: Important Info
Summary: 5 Stars
Any parent of a teenager should read this book. It is not your usual self-help manual. The author presents a truly different and effective way of perceiving erradic teenage behavior and in so doing offers a whole new world of possible and appropriate parental responses to that behavior that will reduce the stress and anxiety for both parents and their teenage children. If you want to survive adolescence with your sanity intact, read this book.Book Review: Insulting, Offensive, and Downright Shirty
Summary: 1 Stars
Were I a teenager, I would most certainly have pitched a fit upon encountering the condescension and fatalism portrayed by this author.
His verbal irony is ironic only in the fact that he is completely serious (though this is hard to tell for some time into the book because its verisimilitude to satire is so great). The teenagers he invents may or may not be crude fascimiles of his own children, but his personal vendetta against the teenage demographic is wholy undeserved and rather slimy (to use his own poor impression of teenage terminology).
Were I a parent who followed this man's treacherous advice, I would find myself deservedly dangling from a ceiling fan after a so-called peaceful night of sleep - with my poor, maligned child standing at the switch.
Were I a teenager, I would also be inclined to pen a scathing review in protest of this...man's insidious infamy.
As well, I would feel the necessity to speculate about his mental health/age/existance/connection to various government agencies that are in fact out to end the human species as we know it by eradicating through spontaneous combustion the demographic that is at its healthiest.
Book Review: Just what these parents need
Summary: 5 Stars
This book came at just the right time for us, parents of a 13 y/o girl. Initially written over ten years ago and now updated this book deconstructs so much of the day to day interactions that we have with our teenager. It is almost spooky to see so many of the conversations written about in this book mirror so closely what we go through almost every day. What we may have already been doing "right" is explained well in these pages, and when it comes to trying a different approach for certain issues the instructions are clear and well explained. For us the most important thing that this book offers is a realistic sense about what battles to chose with your teenager--as well as the reassurance that, while the going is rough, most teenagers come out as nice people at the other end of adolescence.