Safeguarding Your Teenagers from the Dragons of Life: A Parent's Guide to the Adolescent Years

Raising teenagers in today's society is more challenging than ever. Helping your teens avoid drug and alcohol use, value an education and construct a healthy identity is indeed an achievement. How can you do all of that? Of all your parenting actions, what will have the highest payoff in helping your teenagers? In this book, child-development counselor Dr. Bettie Youngs provides practical suggestions on how you can safeguard your teenagers, and what to do if your child is already at risk. Offers practical suggestions on how parents can keep their children safe throughout adolescence, providing insight into the teenage years, and discussing issues such as the parent-child relationship, the family, loneliness, communication, discipline, sex, and self-esteem A woman in my neighborhood - a loving mother and a bank vice-president - is visiting with the police: Her 17-year-old son, Larry, was expelled for bringing a gun to school. Tells how to help teenagers make sense of the world, avoid drug and alcohol abuse, achieve success in school, and develop sexual responsibility and self-esteem.