- ISBN13: 9780060741259
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Product Description
Living with teenagers can be overwhelming. Overnight, it seems, the children you were once so close to turn into independent strangers with thoughts, tastes, and values all their own. And today’s teens are growing up in a popular culture that is meaner, ruder, cruder, more materialistic, more sexualized, and more violent than ever before. What’s a parent to do? How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk Internationally acclaimed parenting e… More >>
How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk
#1 by Jennifer M on June 7, 2010 - 1:00 am
In terms of ludicrous inanity, Faber and Mazlish fall somewhere between a commercial for the Mormon Church and the novel, Go Ask Alice. Their second ride on the How to Talk so Kids Will Listen cash cow is DARE rhetoric wrapped in psychobabble, in which the parents are far more concerned with coaxing obedience from the teens than developing their minds or even getting to know their personalities. Sit-com-like, they solve everything from broken curfews to promiscuous sex by “giving in fantasy” and “saying it in a funny way.” When all else fails, they resort to propaganda, telling the kids that condoms are ineffective protection against STD’s and that marijuana is more cancer-causing than tobacco. Don’t laugh – millions of parents and professionals take these books entirely seriously!
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Joe Fox on June 7, 2010 - 1:26 am
This book works wonders, and that is the problem. I found out my teenager has some serious issues that I’ve never even heard. I can’t look him in the eye anymore. This book works, but unless you truly want to listen to your kids, don’t read it, its a pandora’s box.
Rating: 2 / 5
#3 by S. Edmondson on June 7, 2010 - 3:34 am
I have not read it thoroughly to give accurate view – but so far most is common sense or what we have already been doing!
Rating: 3 / 5
#4 by Anna Thume on June 7, 2010 - 6:19 am
The book wasn’t what I expected. I just wanted to read something that would help not have to get a group of people together to discuss with the children their problem. Teens aren’t going for this type of stuff.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by A. L. Moe on June 7, 2010 - 8:46 am
Both books arrived on time and are excellent resources for me. I learned a lot from them.
Rating: 5 / 5