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Every Parent Should Read This Book: Eleven Lessons for Raising a 21st-Century Teenager
'AN INDISPENSABLE USER'S GUIDE TO ADOLESCENTS.. THE MOST REASSURING THING ABOUT THIS BOOK IS THAT IT'S SO GOOD' Daily Mail
'EVERY PARENT SHOULD READ THIS BOOK' Clover Stroud
'A MUST-READ FOR THOSE WITH TEENAGE KIDS' Candice Brathwaite
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A field guide for parents about the secret lives of 21st-century teenagers - from relationships to self-harm, from drugs to sexting - and how you can help them and yourself through these turbulent years.
"When I turned into a teenager, I watched my parents panic with questions they were unprepared for: is the computer killing his brain? is he watching porn? are those cuts on his arms? what the hell do we do now?
The child-rearing tactics they'd read about in parenting manuals or learned from their own parents were useless. Anyway, how do you punish someone who's already so miserable?
Every Parent Should Read This Book is a field guide for confused parents who are currently custodians of any teenager who's feeling lost, alone, depressed or horny.
I'm not an expert, a psychologist, or even a particularly good person, but I do understand the unique kinds of troubles that come with trying to grow up in the current climate, and I wanted to share what would have helped me, my friends, and everyone else I spoke to while writing this book.
It might be hard to read what I write about self-harming, body piercings, gender confusion, drugs and social media angst. It might involve unpleasant surprises and be occasionally disgusting, but it could also help you to understand and support your kids. They won't thank you, but they might hate you less."
- Ben Brooks
'EVERY PARENT SHOULD READ THIS BOOK' Clover Stroud
'A MUST-READ FOR THOSE WITH TEENAGE KIDS' Candice Brathwaite
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A field guide for parents about the secret lives of 21st-century teenagers - from relationships to self-harm, from drugs to sexting - and how you can help them and yourself through these turbulent years.
"When I turned into a teenager, I watched my parents panic with questions they were unprepared for: is the computer killing his brain? is he watching porn? are those cuts on his arms? what the hell do we do now?
The child-rearing tactics they'd read about in parenting manuals or learned from their own parents were useless. Anyway, how do you punish someone who's already so miserable?
Every Parent Should Read This Book is a field guide for confused parents who are currently custodians of any teenager who's feeling lost, alone, depressed or horny.
I'm not an expert, a psychologist, or even a particularly good person, but I do understand the unique kinds of troubles that come with trying to grow up in the current climate, and I wanted to share what would have helped me, my friends, and everyone else I spoke to while writing this book.
It might be hard to read what I write about self-harming, body piercings, gender confusion, drugs and social media angst. It might involve unpleasant surprises and be occasionally disgusting, but it could also help you to understand and support your kids. They won't thank you, but they might hate you less."
- Ben Brooks
- GenresParentingNonfiction
304 pages, Paperback
First published November 9, 2021
52 people want to read
About the author
Ben Brooks
62 books426 followersBen Brooks (born 1992 in Gloucestershire) is the author of the novels: Grow Up, Fences, An Island of Fifty, The Kasahara School of Nihilism, Upward Coast and Sadie, Lolito, Everyone Gets Eaten, and Hurra. Writing for children, he has published the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Stories For Boys Who Dare to Be Different, Stories For Boys Who Dare to be Different 2, Stories For Kids Who Dare to be Different, The Impossible Boy, and The Greatest Inventor. His first non-fiction book for adults, Things They Don't Want You To Know, was published by Quercus in September 2020.
He contributed the story Kimchi or a Partial List of Misappropriated Hood Ornaments to Frank Ocean's Boys Don't Cry, accompanying the release of 2016 album Blonde.
He contributed the story Kimchi or a Partial List of Misappropriated Hood Ornaments to Frank Ocean's Boys Don't Cry, accompanying the release of 2016 album Blonde.
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December 14, 2021
This is a fantastic book for parents of children from the age of internet use.
It is not patronising and gives you frank useful information concerning how teenagers and children use the internet and how to encourage safe use and aspects of the effects of online usage.
Well worth reading
It is not patronising and gives you frank useful information concerning how teenagers and children use the internet and how to encourage safe use and aspects of the effects of online usage.
Well worth reading
March 18, 2024
This book has given me some idea of what the boys are doing while squirrelled away in their rooms with only their phones for company. I now have a better idea as to why phones and social media are so addictive to young people.
The author himself is young (around 30) and has grown up in the internet age.
He gives examples from his youth and talks openly and honestly about drugs, making friends on the internet, suicide, self harm, relationships, porn (to name a few) and gives tips as to how we as parents can help.
I will read some of the books he recommends and see what else he has written.
The author himself is young (around 30) and has grown up in the internet age.
He gives examples from his youth and talks openly and honestly about drugs, making friends on the internet, suicide, self harm, relationships, porn (to name a few) and gives tips as to how we as parents can help.
I will read some of the books he recommends and see what else he has written.
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