You and Your Teenager: Understanding the Journey - Softcover

Jeanne Meijs

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0863159990 ISBN 13: 9780863159992

Publisher: Floris Books, 2013

Synopsis

'Teenagers are in the midst of an incredible adventure of the soul that forms the foundation of their adulthood.' The teenage years can be a challenging time, but family therapist Jeanne Meijs sees teenagehood as a journey along a path, a journey that parents and teenagers can travel together. This book helps parents to understand the journey, and how to support their child along the way. As the relationship between parents and teenagers changes and develops, it can feel as if the child is rejecting all usual forms of love and care. Meijs explores how to find new kinds of love, as well as encouraging parents to examine their own teenage years and how that time affects their approach to their own children's teenagehood. The book includes sections on teenage excess, approaches to passivity and boredom in teens, sexuality, difficult behaviour (including addiction), being a teenager in a digital age, and issues that arise from divorce. You and Your Teenager is both a considered overview of teenagehood, and a thoroughly practical and down-to-earth book from which parents can draw strength, inspiration and guidance.

About this title

Review:

'This book is both interesting and helpful. It has helped me understand why teenagers might behave as they do, and why our responses or behaviour might not always be beneficial.'
- Juno magazine

About the Author:

Jeanne Meijs is a family therapist who works with children and teenagers, and their parents. Her work is informed by the ideas of Rudolf Steiner who advocated a 'whole child' approach to raising children. She has written several parenting books; she lives in the Netherlands.

About this edition

• Publisher: Floris Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0863159990
• ISBN 13: 9780863159992
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288