Concerned about teenage drug-taking, pregnancies, and eating disorders? Baffled about what drives many teenagers to such behaviour? Worried that ‘it must be my fault’?
This brilliantly enlightening book argues that understanding the culture in which teenagers are growing up is the key to understanding why some inflict tragedy upon themselves or others.
Nick Pollard, a specialist in teenage spiritual and moral education, provides adults with invaluable insights to enable them to open doors of communication with teenagers and begin to influence them for good.
'If there's one book to read to understand teenagers, it's this one.' - Dr. Trevor Stammers, St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London
'Enlightening and helpful' - Prof. Roger Murphy, University of Nottingham
'I have read and re-read it, and it has changed the way I talk with both young people and parents.' - Michael Cuthbertson, Monkton Combe School
Contents:
Introduction
1. All you ever do is criticize
2. Dancing with death - click here to read this sample chapter
3. I feel like giving up
4. Fitting the image
5. Just do it
6. Shut up, Grandad
7. What you gonna do about it?