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Managing Middle School Madness: Helping Parents and Teachers Understand the "Wonder Years"
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Gilderman, Glen – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006
For many parents and students, the transition from elementary school to middle school can be difficult. This book is a compilation of advice and information to help parents prepare for the behavioral, social, and academic adjustments that students may encounter. In this book, the author offers practical tips on topics such a setting up rewards for…
Descriptors: Rewards, Study Skills, Suicide, Eating Disorders
Parenting 911: How To Safeguard and Rescue Your 10- to 15-Year-Old from Substance Abuse, Depression, Sexual Encounters, Violence, Failure in School, Danger on the Internet, and Other Risky Situations.
Giannetti, Charlene C.; Sagarese, Margaret – 1999
Drawing on a national survey of parents, teachers, and students, interviews with a wide range of experts, and the latest research, this book brings parents the information and reassurance they need to identify and handle the crises that can erupt with 10- to 15-year-olds. Specific information and advice are presented for handling some of the most…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Child Rearing
The Parenting for Prevention Information Series: For Parents, Teachers, and Other Caregivers.
Johnson Inst., Minneapolis, MN. – 1998
Intended for parents, teachers, and other caregivers, this set of guide booklets presents simple and effective skills for communicating with children and adolescents on a variety of child-rearing and life-safety issues including sexuality and drug abuse. The 23 booklets are:(1) "How To Set Guidelines for Teenage Parties"; (2) "What To Teach Kids…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Child Rearing
What Growing Up Is All About: A Parent's Guide to Child and Adolescent Development.
Vernon, Ann; Al-Mabuk, Radhi H. – 1995
Noting that parenting is a responsibility people enter into with varying degrees of competence and confidence, this book offers parents information on children's developmental stages so that they may effectively address typical problems of childhood and adolescence. Following a brief introduction, the first chapter of the book discusses general…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Problems
Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers.
Riera, Michael – 1995
This guide to parenting high school-age adolescents is intended to help parents restructure the typically adversarial relationship between parent and teenager by replacing the "parent as manager" role with the "parent as consultant" role. The text is question-driven, comprised of a series of responses to questions commonly asked by parents and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
Rebel without a Car: Surviving and Appreciating Your Child's Teen Years.
Mednick, Fred – 1996
Arguing that adolescence is a syndrome to be managed rather than a stage to be outgrown, this book offers suggestions from a high school principal as an insider's guide to today's teenage world. The book contends that the major task of adolescence is to gain mastery over emotion, and that a partnership between parents and educators is imperative…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Child Rearing