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

Bettie B. Youngs (Author)


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September 1, 1997
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.



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About the Author

Bettie B. Youngs, Ph.D., Ed.D., is the critically acclaimed author of thirty-six books translated into twenty-four languages. Dr. Youngs is a former Teacher-of-the-Year, and University Professor of Educational Administration and Management, Graduate Division. Currently she is Executive Director of Professional Development Services, Inc. Widely considered an expert with a pulse on social issues influencing family and workplace issues, she is a frequent guest on television and radio talk shows, including The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, CNN, Oprah, Good Morning America and The View. Though Bettie's earlier work focused predominately on education and developmental issues for youth, family and educators, in recent years she is best known for her series of poignantly written short-story books that clearly and warmly elucidate the human spirit, captivating the American psyche and winning her wide-range appeal with audiences young and old alike.  

Product Details

  • Paperback: 300 pages
  • Publisher: HCI (September 1, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1558742646
  • ISBN-13: 978-1558742642
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,619,979 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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. Read the first page
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