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How to Make & Keep Friends: Tips for Teens on Life and Social Success
Being a teenager isn't always easy, and navigating friendships and relationships can be particularly challenging for some teens.
Our goal in writing this third book in our friendship series was to help make the social journey through the teenage years an easier one. This time in life can feel both exciting and difficult. There are some challenges that every teen experiences. These include:
- Changing Brains
- Changing Bodies
- Strong Emotions
- Understanding Yourself
- Developing a Value System
- Awkwardness
- Changing Friendships
- Barriers to Social Success
We know from our experience as social coaches that everyone is "friend-able." Sometimes a teen need a little support or advice to make that happen. We had real teens help us with writing the tips in this book. This book builds on the tips that we talked about in our Amazon best-selling book for younger kids, How to Make & Keep Friends: Tips for Kids to Overcome 50 Common Social Challenges. For tweens or younger teens, the end of our first book and the beginning of this one will be the right developmental combination of tips.
The book is meant to be used as a reference guide. We did not intend for it to be read cover to cover. Teens can easily flip to the section they want to know more about and read only the parts that will be interesting and helpful them as an individual or for a specific situation. There is a total of 500 immediately actionable tips for teens to use. We have sections that cover:
- Personal Hygiene
- Building Self-Confidence
- Managing Strong Feelings
- Being Excluded, Ignored or Rejected
- Considering Another's Point of View
- Conflicts and Disagreements
- Online Presence and Gaming
- Interviews and Appointments
- Accepting Criticism
- Dating and Sexuality
- And much, much more!
Our goal in writing this third book in our friendship series was to help make the social journey through the teenage years an easier one. This time in life can feel both exciting and difficult. There are some challenges that every teen experiences. These include:
- Changing Brains
- Changing Bodies
- Strong Emotions
- Understanding Yourself
- Developing a Value System
- Awkwardness
- Changing Friendships
- Barriers to Social Success
We know from our experience as social coaches that everyone is "friend-able." Sometimes a teen need a little support or advice to make that happen. We had real teens help us with writing the tips in this book. This book builds on the tips that we talked about in our Amazon best-selling book for younger kids, How to Make & Keep Friends: Tips for Kids to Overcome 50 Common Social Challenges. For tweens or younger teens, the end of our first book and the beginning of this one will be the right developmental combination of tips.
The book is meant to be used as a reference guide. We did not intend for it to be read cover to cover. Teens can easily flip to the section they want to know more about and read only the parts that will be interesting and helpful them as an individual or for a specific situation. There is a total of 500 immediately actionable tips for teens to use. We have sections that cover:
- Personal Hygiene
- Building Self-Confidence
- Managing Strong Feelings
- Being Excluded, Ignored or Rejected
- Considering Another's Point of View
- Conflicts and Disagreements
- Online Presence and Gaming
- Interviews and Appointments
- Accepting Criticism
- Dating and Sexuality
- And much, much more!
- GenresSelf Help
170 pages, Paperback
Published May 19, 2017
About the author
Donna Shea
21 books13 followersDonna Shea is an author and educator with a B.A. in Behavioral Science and more than two decades of experience helping children build confidence, friendships, and real-world skills.
She is the founder of Peter Pan Publishing and the Peter Pan Center for Social and Emotional Growth. Her books range from practical resources for parents and educators to children's stories that explore friendship, emotions, confidence, and the everyday Growing Powers kids develop along the way.
Donna has advanced training and certifications in Positive Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral Coaching, Bullying Prevention, and Pathological Demand Avoidance. She is also co-author of the How to Make & Keep Friends books and workbooks.
Whether she is writing for children or the adults who support them, Donna's goal is the same: to make complicated social and emotional skills easier to understand, practical to use, and a little more fun.
She is the founder of Peter Pan Publishing and the Peter Pan Center for Social and Emotional Growth. Her books range from practical resources for parents and educators to children's stories that explore friendship, emotions, confidence, and the everyday Growing Powers kids develop along the way.
Donna has advanced training and certifications in Positive Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral Coaching, Bullying Prevention, and Pathological Demand Avoidance. She is also co-author of the How to Make & Keep Friends books and workbooks.
Whether she is writing for children or the adults who support them, Donna's goal is the same: to make complicated social and emotional skills easier to understand, practical to use, and a little more fun.
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January 26, 2020
Any teen should find this book enlightening and a guide for navigating life.
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