Connected Father: Understanding Your Unique Role and Responsibilities During Your Child's Adolescence
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Parenting Expert Carl Pickhardt Shows How the Bonds Between Fathers and Teens Can Be Strengthened Many fathers feel unprepared for their child's adolescence, in their denial, often times preferring to believe that it will only happen to other people's children. In this sensitive and forthright book, Carl Pickhardt stresses that fathers need to become informed about changes and challenges that normally unfold. Helping caring fathers navigate the four crucial and often perplexing stages of adolescence, The Connected Father describes: * how fathers can learn to be better listeners * why they have trouble communicating and what to do about it * different emotional changes between mid- and late-adolescence * how to encourage independence while setting limits * how fathers can talk to teens about drugs, sex, the internet, relationships, and more
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1403979049
ISBN13:9781403979049
Release Date:May 2007
Publisher:St. Martins Press-3PL
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 7.1" x 8.2"
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Adolescent Psychology Child Psychology Family Relationships Fatherhood Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting Interpersonal Relations Parenting & Relationships Politics & Social Sciences Psychology Psychology & Counseling Relationships Social Issues Social Sciences Teen & Young AdultCustomer Reviews
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Teenage aggression and growth
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
As a professor of social psychology I have found The Connected Father to be invaluable when students suggest, as occurs all too frequently that (a) the abuse they received at the hands of a father made them stronger, or (2) anything that a young person cannot discuss calmly and reasonably should not be discussed at all. Dr. Pickardt's view is precisely the opposite. He renders conflict between teenagers and parents a thing not to be dreaded, not a thing to be either repressed or avoided, but a phenomenon of growth. A thing to be welcomed and embraced. It is the gateway to a young person's independence and maturity. What pleases me most is that his arguments come across not as the pronouncements of an expert, but as the reinforcement of basic awarenesses that lie buried in most of us. They make common sense, and we have to wonder what has blocked us from fuller awareness of them until now. This is an important question, but a separate one and requires another book. In the meantime, the guidelines provided here are as valuable as any lifeline in a sea of angst and uncertainty. I have no doubt that through my classes alone Dr. Pickhardt has impacted hundreds of new parents in a most productive way.
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