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You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25

Book by Laurence Steinberg · 9 quotes · Children, Parent, Adolescence

This book provides a detailed exploration of the psychological, social, and emotional changes that adolescents experience between the ages of 10 and 25. It includes practical advice for parents and caregivers on how to navigate the challenges of adolescence, foster healthy development, and build strong relationships with young adults.

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This book provides a detailed exploration of the psychological, social, and emotional changes that adolescents experience between the ages of 10 and 25. It includes practical advice for parents and caregivers on how to navigate the challenges of adolescence, foster healthy development, and build strong relationships with young adults.

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“What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in the decision-making.”

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“Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.”

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“Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic commitment to them.”

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“Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold. . . . Adolescents generally choose friend whose values, attitudes, tastes, and families are similar to their own. In short, good kids rarely go bad because of their friends.”

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“Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the captain of the lacrosse team, the president of your senior class, Phi Beta Kappa, or a political activist doesn't mean that your teenager will be or should be the same....Likewise, the fact that you were a wallflower, uncoordinated, and a C student shouldn't mean that you push your child to be everything you were not.”

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“Most adults would not dream of belittling, humiliating, or bullying (verbally or physically) another adult. But many of the same adults think nothing of treating their adolescent child like a nonperson. . . . Adolescents deserve the same civility their parents routinely extend to total strangers.”

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“At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone their age is growing and changing, but each at his or her own pace.”

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“The parent-adolescent relationship is like a partnership in which the senior partner (the parent) has more expertise in many areasbut looks forward to the day when the junior partner (the adolescent) will take over the business of running his or her own life.”

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“Parents sometimes feel that if they don't criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn't make people wantto change; it makes them defensive.”

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