The Parenting Adolescents Chapter focuses on ages 13 to 17, when your teenager’s brain is alternating between innocence and insolence. It is a time of risk taking, rebellion, and extreme conformity to peer pressure. The research and more than 35 age-appropriate activities provided will show you how to help your teen develop to his/her full potential.
It answers important questions like:
How do dopamine and oxytocin affect the teenage brain?
How can any child become a world-class performer or expert?
What should you say to your teen about sex?
What should you say to your teen about drugs?
Is it better to stay in school or drop out and take the GED?
Which colleges have the best record of success for upward mobility?
What’s one easy step you can take to reduce the stress levels in your adolescent?
How can you help your teen form positive new habits?
What are some common teenage myths and how can you correct them?
How should you measure your adolescent’s maturity?
What can you do to help your teen make better moral decisions?
Get the answers to these questions and more, plus dozens of activities to help your teen advance in all 4 Dimensions: The Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual. It the Instruction Manual you didn't get with your teenager!
Tim McCarthy has a Master’s Degree in Education and a Grandmaster rank in the martial arts. He has combined his years of experience as a classroom teacher and administrator (in both public and private schools) with even more years of experience teaching and developing martial arts programs to create a simple plan for the education of children. He has spent years researching developmental child psychology, chosen the best studies, and distilled them into simple, understandable language. He then drew on his vast knowledge of activities that help children become stronger physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, and arranged them according to the capabilities of children at each age.
His unique perspective combining Eastern and Western educational philosophy creates a powerful road map for raising balanced children in an increasingly unbalanced world.