How To Survive mit Teenager

Forget about the defiance phases and tantrums of your little children – all exhausting and nerve-wracking, but compared to what lies ahead, harmless. The real challenge of parenting is called adolescence. It hits like a bombshell. And although everyone knows it's coming, no one is prepared for backtalk, rejection, rebelliousness, strange opinions, bad taste, pimples, chaos, and disorder. The list is long and overwhelming. Adolescence is taxing for parents, financially unattractive, arrives far too early, and an end is hardly in sight in the midst of it all. The only comfort: you are not alone. All parents, without exception, must go through this phase. There is no escape; good preparation is advisable. How do you actually recognize that puberty is starting? Where did your child get that terrible taste in music, and how do you endure it? What about your children's friends? What do you do with drugs you found in their school bag? Why do your teens find you so embarrassing? What went wrong in your carefully crafted parenting plan, and can you still turn things around? This book shows you how to keep a cool head despite all the challenges that arise between you and your prickly adolescent.