Customer Reviews

The Good Teen: Rescuing Adolescence from the Myths of the Storm and Stress Years

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The book was great, it gave me a lot of great ideas and inside stuff I didn't know about what teens are going through in these time. The books is great and I would recomend it even if your child is just a little one.

I thought this book read like a psychology text book. While the author gave examples, it was still very dry reading and not very interesting. I thought a lot of the information was common sense.

This is a well-written book including research on the status of teens today. Its premise is that most teens behave well, but are subject to prejudice. They are treated as if we expect problems. Rather than say our teenagers are okay when they are not doing bad things,which demoralizes them and blinds us to who they are, we should show them the respect of expecting good, applauding their strengths, and helping them with their weaknesses,as with people of other ages. Suggestions are given for ways in which parents and also schools and the larger society can better support teenagers. Although much of it seems like common sense, the ideas are not really widely held. It is worth reading.

But at the same time, the author seems to be pushing his fantasy of making all teens into an army of do-gooder machines, too.

the approach of this is too much like a research paper not as a parent support tool.

Neat outlook on adolescence. Very positive approaches that are well explained, supported by sited studies and easy to apply immediately.

The book came highly recommended by a friend, but did not get a chance to read it as a result of a home fire.