Unglued and Tattooed: How to Save Your Teen From Raves, Ritalin, Goth, Body Carving, GHB, Sex,and 12 other Emerging Threats (Hardcover)

by Sara Trollinger (Author)

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Product Description
A how-to guide to help parents recognize and heed the warning signs of today's hip culture, including threats that weren't around 20 or 30 years ago.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: LifeLine Press (September 25, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895261693
• ISBN-13: 978-0895261694
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,085,842 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars It's Sad People Believe This Way, July 12, 2002

By	"editormich" (Springfield, VA) - See all my reviews

I am the mother of a 12 year old girl and stumbled across this book at the library. After the first couple of chapters I suspected it was a "Christian" book, but figured I'd see what, if any, information of value I could glean from the book. The one thing I did get was that it is a good idea for Dads to spend one-on-one time with their teen daughters and be involved in their lives. That "good" male attention can help immensely with a girl's self-esteem and give her positive expectations of male/female relationships.

Other than that, the book is HORRID. It is, as other reviewers have mentioned, EXTREMELY sensationalistic. While I would prefer my daughter not get involved in the rave scene, I sincereley doubt that one exposure is going to result in her becoming gang raped and running off and being a prostitute.

Chapter 5, about the Goths, warns that dabbling in wearing black clothers, black eyeliner and black lipstick will cause your child to be posessed by the devil. Least you think they are exagerating, the author warns, David Berkowitz (aka Son of Sam) is presented not as a sick individual who CLAIMS that he was possessed by the devil and thus committed his atrocious acts, but as someone who had ACTUALLY been posessed by the devil.

Do they REALLY think that giving your teen Christian Contemporary Music CDs would work on a kid who's preference is Marylin Manson?

I'm still reading the book ... I am slightly halfway along and am reading it more for the "I cannot believe they actually think this way" value than anything else.

There are much better, more realistic, saner books out there on dealing with your teen and his or her issues.

Read this one just for its curiosity factor ... if you try any of their "Discussion Starters" on your actual teen I guarantee they'll never regard you with a straight face again.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Hohoho., August 14, 2003

By A Customer

I have to say that this is possibly the most sensationalist misinformed piece of tripe I have ever come across. I agree fully with all of the other reviews and their comments. Not only is this the worst type of religious scaremongering (before you bible bashers start I am a good Catholic boy, educated by priests anyone) I have seen in a long time, it's just plain offensive to anyone who indulges in the odd piuercing or enjoys dance music and raves or God forbid...dresses in black (catholic priests). I think this books sales rank speaks volumes for it. The author must be quite worried about the state of the world today when books about bestiality are selling more than their guide to emerging threats. In brief...if you want to completely distance yourself from your children, if you do not want to understand their problems in the most important years of their lives, if you are fundamentalist, sensationalist or just ignorant to other cultures and lifestyles then this book is for you. If on the other hand you are a normal sane human the only good this book will serve will be to scare you away from organised religion and it's draconian beliefs forever.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars uhhhh, October 13, 2002

By	John Galt (GA, USA) - See all my reviews

I don't own this book; I filped through it at a bookstore once, and then fell to the ground laughing, mostly about the part w/ Goths.
I, being somewhat Gothic, found the whole thing funny. I listen to some Chrisitan music, for heavens sake, and Goth has nothing to do with the devil.
Manson is shock rock, not Goth and the term Spooky Kid is used by me and a lot of other goths to describe people who listen to Manson, cut themselves to be Goth, drink blood and so forth.
Goth is basically about beauty, and it has nothing to do with Devil Worship. It's not a religion, and I'm Christian and Goth, and I have never meant any devil worshipers or people that are possessed.
Don't get this, unless you have a *very* good sense of humor and know the basics of what this book is talking about.