Street-Safe Kids: Ten-Step Guide for Teens and Adults

by Stephanie L Mann

Open the door to success! Empower youth with emotional tools to stay safe from bullies, drugs, violence, and other self-destructive behaviors! While feeding the homeless with Mother Mary Ann Wright, Stephanie Mann saw the consequences of child abuse (mental, physical, and sexual) and neglect. Over the years, drug addicts and former inmates have asked for help. They didn't know how to turn their lives around and become productive citizens. Mann worked with Pastor Flemon Henry and formed support groups in Oakland, California. She saw how abuse and neglect created angry men who escaped into drugs and often abused women. Many of our homeless citizens never learned how to discover their inner power to develop their identity, self-confidence, and ability to stay centered. As a result of the support groups, homeless men got jobs or woke up and entered drug rehab. We can empower youth! Stephanie has realized that most parents demonstrate and share healthy values with children. Neglected or abused adults never learned how to raise centered children. This book gives adults and youth the tools to help one another. Every human being has the inner power to develop courage, character, and a self-protective conscience. These basic tools help youth make healthy choices and connect with others so they can reach their God-given potential.

216 pages, Paperback

Published January 23, 2016

Reviews

[John Naylor · Rating 1 out of 5]

I received this book for free via Goodreads First Reads.

Another book I received a few years ago. I almost regret not reading sooner as it should have reviews that tell people not to heed the majority of the advice given in it.

If you get past the quotes by anti-semites, anti-science charlatans and others that cannot be found you get something even worse. Add in the sources that do not appear to exist and you have a book that should not be anywhere near teenagers or their parents.

You get "advice" to snoop in your teenagers (this really doesn't help with trust). You get a lot of advice that I would describe as cultist. Mostly as it does feel that it would lead a teenager into a cult situation.

This is not an easy review to write as I want to emphasise it with a lot of choice swearwords. Just to make the point that it is a dangerous and ill thought out book. I am not saying that there is no value to it. It is just hidden in between the aim which seems to be to get kids off the streets and into cults.

Avoid. Please. I have read this so you don't have to.

[Danita G C]

Great book for kids who are currently or might become victims of a bully, drugs, or crime.