Teenage Parenting

Whether your family is like the Walton's, the Simpson's or the Bundy's, or
whether you're living in the thirteen hundreds, the eighteen hundreds or
the twenty-first century, it's never easy raising a family.
Each and every one of us though will have something in common with the
mythical characters and our counterparts of yesteryear. We all have
children, and we will all ultimately need to deal with the fact that these
children will grow up.
To go from baby to toddler to mature adult though, there's one stage they
will definitely need to go through regardless of anything else, and that's
adolescence. Or in other words, the teenage years. Dun-da-DAH! This is
when you're supposed to hear the music from the movie "Psycho" echoing
in your head.
No, I'm just joking, teenagers aren't that bad, and most of it is in truth
mainly a lot of media misdirection. The anguished teenager, the rebellious
teenager, the bookworm, the go getter, the jock, the cheerleader, the nerd,
the mixed up one who's not popular but has the potential…the list goes is
practically endless, and if you look hard enough you'll always find a teenager
that will suit one of these stereotypes.
If you look harder still though, you'll see that some facet of their
personalities will fit each and every one of these stereotypes. So what do
you then? Raising a teen is hard enough, if you don't know what mold they
fit into how can you proceed any further?
That's easy really. You're their parent and only you can know what they're
truly like. What they become and how they perceive the world and find
their place in it though is a matter for the two of you to decide, through
this journey of parenthood and "teenagehood", together.
And that's what this book is all about, the joys and pitfalls of parenting a
teenager. One more thing though before you go on to read this book. One
thing that I believe in with all my being, is that you need good
communication between you and your teen for your relationship to work.
Without this everything else will just fall by the wayside. And because of
this belief that I have, you'll find that most of this book is littered with
references for you to just "sit down and talk" with you teen.