Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers: Guiding the Way for Compassionate, Committed, Courageous Adults [Paperback]

Maurice J. Elias Ph.D. (Author), Steven E. Tobias Psy.D. (Author), Brian S. Friedlander Ph.D. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 26, 2002

The world before September 11, 2001, was challenging enough for parents of teenagers. Now it is more so. Our families, schools, and workplaces need Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers who will not only be knowledgeable, responsible, nonviolent, and caring youths, but who also will grow up to be compassionate, committed, and courageous adults.

How can parents accomplish this? Not only do raging hormones make everything more intense for teenagers, but they have their own special issues concerning identity, self-confidence, peer pressure, and responsibility, including individuating from their parents. Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers shows parents how to use a balance of love, laughter, and limits to reach their goals. Drs. Elias, Tobias, and Friedlander, all respected experts in child behavior and parents of teenagers, have written a clear, informative book of sound advice that applies the insights of Daniel Goleman’s best- seller, Emotional Intelligence, to unlock teenagers’ untapped desire to belong to families and schools that make a difference and to contribute positively to them.

Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers is filled with real-life scenarios, practical strategies, and the answers to the questions parents ask most frequently, all drawn from the authors’ professional and personal experiences and given with warmth and humor.

Guiding the way to compassionate, committed, courageous adults is a serious challenge, but its effective pursuit is a labor of love, a journey of joy, and a path filled with pride.

Editorial Reviews

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"A welcome help for any parent who seeks to raise a self-aware, responsible, empathetic, and effective teenager."
-- Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

"Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers is a hopeful, optimistic, and realistic guide to loving, raising, and laughing with your hormone-charged teenagers. Through cool tips and quizzes, creative conversational maps, and relationship-building strategies, the book invites you to model good SEL behavior and engage with your teenager in the teenage tango! The book assures you of the possibility of a win-win and honest relationship for both parent and teenager. The authors clearly practice what they teach, as the book pulls you into its process by encouraging parents to turn attention to themselves in self-reflection and to turn attention to their teenagers by seeing their perspective, understanding their feelings, and still, in the final analysis, loving them, talking to them, and setting limits."
-- Robin Stern, Ph.D., The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership and the Center for Social and Emotional Education

"Thank you to Drs. Elias, Tobias, and Friedlander! Speaking as the parent of a thirteen-year-old and a psychologist who designs programs for teenagers, I think this is the best book on parenting teenagers that I have ever read. It is wise, practical, engaging, and humorous. The authors offer sound advice, powerful vignettes, and strategies that parents can immediately put into action. This book is uplifting and confirming."
-- Roger P. Weissberg, Ph.D., executive director, Collaborative to Advance Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL), and professor of psychology and education, University of Illinois at Chicago

"Reading and integrating the messages in Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers will put you on the path to making a parent-teen connection that is 'cool' beyond compare."
-- From the Foreword by Gotham Chopra


From the Hardcover edition.

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The world before September 11, 2001, was challenging enough for parents of teenagers. Now it is more so. Our families, schools, and workplaces need Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers who will not only be knowledgeable, responsible, nonviolent, and caring youths, but who also will grow up to be compassionate, committed, and courageous adults.

How can parents accomplish this? Not only do raging hormones make everything more intense for teenagers, but they have their own special issues concerning identity, self-confidence, peer pressure, and responsibility, including individuating from their parents. Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers shows parents how to use a balance of love, laughter, and limits to reach their goals. Drs. Elias, Tobias, and Friedlander, all respected experts in child behavior and parents of teenagers, have written a clear, informative book of sound advice that applies the insights of Daniel Goleman?s best- seller, Emotional Intelligence, to unlock teenagers? untapped desire to belong to families and schools that make a difference and to contribute positively to them.

Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers is filled with real-life scenarios, practical strategies, and the answers to the questions parents ask most frequently, all drawn from the authors? professional and personal experiences and given with warmth and humor.

Guiding the way to compassionate, committed, courageous adults is a serious challenge, but its effective pursuit is a labor of love, a journey of joy, and a path filled with pride.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (February 26, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609805258
• ISBN-13: 978-0609805251
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,911,402 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars same old stuff, May 13, 2003

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This review is from: Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers: Guiding the Way for Compassionate, Committed, Courageous Adults (Paperback)

nothing new here. Read it already in Goleman's books. Can psychologists stop stealing ideas to make a buck?