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This bestselling Australian book explores the delights, frustrations and dilemmas facing parents of adolescents. Author and clinical psychologist Andrew Fuller offers parents practical solutions to common problems adolescents face, with a refreshing emphasis on parents being there for their children, rather than on the need to adopt particular parenting skills. The focus of parenting is therefore placed on the quality of the relationship between parent and adolescent.
In Raising Real People, Fuller draws on the wisdom accumulated from workshops, research conducted across Australia and many successful approaches by parents, to present ways to promote resilience in children and harmony in the home. Fuller identifies parenting practices in well-functioning families that work with adolescents, as well as looking at practices that dont work. He also illustrates the changing fashions in parenting theory, and the different social expectations and pressures that make each generations task different from that of the previous generation.
From the serious (relationships, depression, sibling rivalry, parental break-up, self-esteem, youth suicide) to the not so serious (pocket money, homework, parties), author and clinical psychologist Andrew Fuller offers practical solutions to common problems drawn from parents, their children and his own experience as a family therapist.
Fullers approach is light-hearted and supportive of parents. His awareness that adolescence is a time of enjoyment, as well as being anxiety-provoking for parents, is humorously illustrated in advice sheets around 38 typical, and some more difficult, parenting issues.
Raising Real People is a candid and refreshing look at the issue of parenting adolescents and a must have guide for all parents of teenagers. This revised edition includes a new chapter on the 'Click and Go' generation.
