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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| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | Anthony E. Wolf | | Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | | Release date: | 01 August, 2002 | | List price: | $13.00 |
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| 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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The "how to" manual all parents have been looking for! |
| The title sets the tone of this informative book. Anyone with a teenager can relate to the scenerios the author depicts. The rational advice given on how to deal with different issues is wonderful. Just the simple fact that kids now are growing up in a different parenting era than we were brought up in, recognizes the different parenting problems and solutions that need to be used today. The author recognizes that parents today usually were brought up under parenting controlled through fear, today's parent is less about controlling through fear and corpreal punishment. The author recognizes that today's parents while trying to raise self-confident children, may, as a result, have to deal with different responses from their teenagers than their parents did. I have truely enjoyed reading this book and the practical advice of dealing with various typical situations any parent encounters with their teen. |
| 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 - Anthony E. Wolf |
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Get Out of My Life but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall?: A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager |
| I would give the title 5 stars and I agree with the majority of reviewers that it is comforting reading another parenting book that explains seemingly outrageous behavior. The major disappointment was the advice for how to deal with problems that may range from upsetting to dangerous. Dr.Wolf's "solutions" can be summed up with a quote from the chapter "Conflict" in which a parent tells his child "You are going to have to learn that what you do and say has consequences." Dr. Wolf advises "The parent may say this and may indeed punish a child for disrespect. What punishment accomplishes, as anybody who has been through this will attest, is nothing. Nothing positive, that is. The same thing will happen again anyway." If that fits your parenting philosophy, you will probably enjoy the book. I hope this is not what the majority of parents believe, much less "anybody who has been through this". |
| Anthony E. Wolf - 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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SMART TITLE, SMART BOOK |
| As a mom of teens and author of GIRLTALK and other advice books, I was curious to read this funny and wise book. Here's to Tony Wolf for giving parents reassuring and witty advice that is full of compassion and valuable nuggets. One such tip: If you're in the middle of a fight, don't let things escalate--just disengage. |
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