Teenagers!: A Bewildered Parent's Guide [Paperback]

Elizabeth Caldwell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1996

their kids discussing with entertaining language and anecdotal examples the things that weigh most heavily on the developing teenage mind: authority, direction, choice, freedom, communication, and relationships.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Teenagers! A Bewildered Parent's Guides speaks candidly about the pressures that today's teenagers face on the road through adolescence. Elizabeth Caldwell speaks candidly about the pressures that today's teenagers face on the road through adolescence. She illustrates the difficulties teens face coming to terms with such issues as authority, direction, choice, freedom, communication, and relationships with illuminating and entertaining anecdotes based on real teenagers and real situations. Teenagers! A Bewildered Parent's Guide helps parents understand what their teens are thinking and why they are doing what they are doing. -- Midwest Book Review

From the Publisher

Full of common sense advice. I read it with my teen son who felt it was right on the mark! -Prema Mathai-Davis National Executive Director Y.W.C.A. of the U.S.A. The text is so extraordinarily fresh and personal...like a heart-to-heart conversation among parents. the book creates a feeling of optimism and stimulates the reader to think about how to handle disturbing situations.

Product Details

• Paperback: 174 pages
• Publisher: Silvercat/Silverthreads (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 096249450X
• ISBN-13: 978-0962494505
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,509,291 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ms. Lillian Cauldwell is an active author of three fiction books. She lives in Ann Arbor, MI. Lillian is a graduate of Hartford College For Women, a two-year school in Hartford, CT (1971). Ms. Cauldwell attended the University of New Hampshire for her junior year and majored in Speech Pathology and Audiology.

Lillian Cauldwell had her first nonfiction book published in 1996, 'Teenagers! A Bewildered Parent's Guide' by Silvercat Publishing. Between 1996 and 2003, Ms. Cauldwell wrote short stories and had them published by Simegen.com for their Do A Good Deed Charitable Section. In 2003, Lillian wrote a historical science fiction book, 'Sacred Honor,' which was published by a Print On Demand Publisher.

Currently, Lillian Cauldwell is working on 'The Anna Mae Mysteries-The Holy Relic' multi-cultural paranormal mystery for teens, 9 to 14 years. Her first book in the series, 'The Anna Mae Mysteries-The Golden Treasure' was released in October, 08.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Evolution of an Adult, June 11, 2001

By 

Jacqueline Lichtenberg "sf/f writer" (Arizona) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teenagers!: A Bewildered Parent's Guide (Paperback)

I first met Elizabeth Caldwell when she volunteered to run an author spotlights section at simegen.com and participate in writing the WorldCraftrs Guild Heritage Soap Opera. Since my teens are now in their 30's, I doubt I'd have noticed this book otherwise.

And I would have been the poorer for it.

This is one of those deceptively simple books -- it is much more than it appears on the surface.

Most books about surviving the raising of teens into adults are about do's and don'ts -- about advice. About how to handle common situations.

"A Bewildered Parent's Guide" is about the process of becoming the parent of a 30 year old who used to be your teenager. This is the book to read BEFORE you read the "how to" books.

It requires as much shift-change-growth on the part of the parent as it does on the part of the teen. Every time the teen changes, the parent and the parenting-style have to shift to make room for the changes in the teen. Every time the parent changes, the teen is then forced to shift-change-become more mature.

This book describes that process without actually talking about it. This book shows us in objective language that doesn't trigger fulminating emotions what that process is -- without telling. That "show don't tell" is one of the keys to good writing we teach at the WorldCrafters Guild.

If you want to be told, choose from among any number of books on raising children. This is the best book I've seen based on showing.

"A Bewildered Parent's Guide" describes the principles, issues, and processes behind the advice you find in other books. It's the kind of book you'll use, then save to give to your kids when they have kids.

Live Long and Prosper, Jacqueline Lichtenberg