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Get Out of My Life, But First Take Me and Alex into Town: A Parents Guide to the New Teenager
 
 

Get Out of My Life, But First Take Me and Alex into Town: A Parents Guide to the New Teenager (Paperback)

by Anthony Wolf (Author), Suzanne Franks (Author)
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  • Paperback: 228 pages
  • Publisher: Profile Books Ltd; New ed. edition (14 Mar 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1861973411
  • ISBN-13: 978-1861973412
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 141,315 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This is the best survival guide for parents who find themselves marooned among volatile and incomprehensible aliens on Planet Teen. Area maps cover the ground - with chapters on school, sex, drugs, suicide, and so on - but it's the title of Chapter 2, 'What They Do and Why,' that best captures the book's spirit and technique. One key mistake is getting dragged into no-win conflicts instead of having the wisdom to shut up at the moment when shutting up would be most effective - albeit the least satisfying - thing to do. There are also some nicely tongue-in-check samples of 'ideal' communication - the stuff we imagine might get said by better parents. After one such rosily cooperative and considerate interchange between a father and his adolescent son, the book offers the following two-edged comfort: 'The above conversation has never happened. Never. Not in the whole history of the world.' Message: parenting adolescents is inherently difficult. Efforts shouldn't be judged by otherworldly standards.

About the Author
Tony Wolf is a psychologist and author of a number of successful guides on different aspects of parenting. He has teenage children. Suzanne Franks is a television producer, journalist and author of Having None of It (Granta). She has a teenage daughter and two younger children. She lives in London.

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44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Reading for any parent of a teenager., 7 April 2002
By annmaur842@aol.com (Kent, England) - See all my reviews
This book is brilliant. As the mother of a teenager I was able to relate to every page in this book. It was spot-on! It gives good advice and explains why teenagers act the way they do. After reading this book I realised that my son is very, very normal whereas before I was sometimes seriously wondering where I had gone wrong!

If you have a teenager I would strongly suggest you read this book. I have read quite a few books on adolescence but in my opinion this one is by far superior to any other of its type.

Thank you Tony Wolf and Suzanne Franks for creating such an amazing insight into the adolescent way of thinking and how we as parents can best handle this.

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This book has given me back my sanity!!, 27 Feb 2004
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I couldn't remember why I acted inconsiderately and irrationally as a teenager, so I didn't understand why my teenager was acting like this! I spent sleepless nights feeling really hurt and angry because of her words and actions before I read this book. It has put my mind to rest on a lot of teenage behavioural issues. You might not be able to change your teenager's behaviour after reading this book, but at least you'll be able to deal with it in your head and you won't feel so frustrated anymore. Well worth a read I think, even if you haven't got children it helps you realize why the teenagers of today are they way they are.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Recognition and Reassurance, 20 Dec 2002
By L G Ashford (Redditch, Worcestershire England) - See all my reviews
Whilst this book does not offer any solutions, or even advice, it is invaluable for the sense of recognition and reassurance which it brings about when dealing with prickly, angry, confused adolescents. I understand now what is happening to my daughter, which is a great relief, and which will equip me to deal with her rages with a degree of insight, sympathy, and compassion, the latter of which which I admit I found it hard to muster prior to reading this book.
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