Contents
- 1. “Your Restless Teen” by Robert and Jean Bayard
- 2. “How to talk so teens will listen and how to listen so teens will talk” Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
- 3. “On the side of a teenager” Francoise Dolto
- 4. “Before your teen drives you crazy” Nigel Latta
- 5. Our Good Teens by Nelly Litvak
- 6. “Real boys. How to save our sons from the myths of boyhood by William Pollack
- 7. “Our teenagers: educate, understand, love”
How to maintain contact with a growing child? How to learn to hear him and what words to find so that he hears us? Our selection of books will help answer these questions.
1. “Your Restless Teen” by Robert and Jean Bayard
The best book for parents who have lost mutual understanding with their child. Its authors, family therapists and parents of five children, Robert and Jean Bayard, are confident that the task of parents of teenagers is to maintain an equal relationship with their children at all costs. Trust them, accept them for who they are, be sincere. Often, for this, adults have to change themselves. A living book with many recognizable situations.
Academic project, 2013.
2. “How to talk so teens will listen and how to listen so teens will talk” Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish are students of the American psychologist Jaime Ginott, mothers of many children, and authors of several effective family relationship guides.
This book is based on master classes that the authors conducted with the parents of teenagers. The participants of the training discuss those situations of mutual “deafness” that are very familiar to many of us.
How to behave when a teenager challenges? How to react if the son crosses all boundaries? What to do if the daughter does not consider us? A book that makes it easier to read and decide to change something.
Eksmo, 2012.
3. “On the side of a teenager” Francoise Dolto
Deep delicate book by the classic of child psychoanalysis, Frenchwoman Francoise Dolto (1908-1988) about the inner world and growing up of adolescents. About the turning points of adolescence, the formation of sexuality, loneliness, suicidal tendencies of children and school difficulties.
The image of a teenager is shown in a broad cultural and historical context. But the book has a lot of practical ideas, there are also detailed tables with the physiological parameters of growing up and the behavior of adolescents from 10 to 16 years old.
Rama Publishing, 2013.
4. “Before your teen drives you crazy” Nigel Latta
Scandals, rudeness, alcohol and drugs, problems with the police, depression and suicide attempts… Nigel Latta, a New Zealand psychologist with 20 years of experience and a father of two sons, collected the most difficult situations that parents of teenagers face and… tried to destroy their illusions. An up-to-date guide to action, written lightly and with a great sense of humor.
RIPOL Classic, 2012
5. Our Good Teens by Nelly Litvak
After reading this book, there remains a clear tonic effect, which is so necessary for confused parents of teenagers.
Mathematician, teacher at the University of Twente (Holland), mother of two daughters Nelly Litvak looks at difficulties in relationships with children as mathematical problems: they are easy to solve if you know the right algorithm. Clearly formulating this algorithm, she advises at the same time not to get carried away with education excessively.
Teenagers are “funny, witty, funny, full of ideas… Enjoy the company of children before they become boring adults.”
Alpina non-fiction, 2012.
6. “Real boys. How to save our sons from the myths of boyhood by William Pollack
Mastering “non-male”, from the point of view of stereotypes, behavior patterns for boys is still prohibited by the strict Boys’ Code. The American psychologist William Pollak formulates it this way: do not show vulnerability, strive to dominate, devalue relationships so as not to suffer from separation and rejection, do not dare to feel, do not dare to become attached.
It seems to adults that this is how they raise a real man. But the task of parents is the opposite – with their acceptance and support, give the boy permission to be a real man: not a superman with biceps and a steely look, but himself – alive, warm, different.
Resource, 2013.
7. “Our teenagers: educate, understand, love”
How do children develop, what worries them most, when is it better to talk to them about sex, is the Internet dangerous for them, how to find the right intonation and convincing arguments so that the child hears our position?
This book, prepared with the participation of experts from the magazine Psychologies, is a real encyclopedia and at the same time a guide for parents of teenagers in the “Territory of TEENS”. The information and advice collected here will help parents fulfill their mission: to overcome the difficulties of adolescence with their children and raise happy and independent adults.
Clever, 2014.