Home-made Kids: A Journey Through AdolescenceEach stage in a child's development has its own ups and downs, and its focus. We often wonder whether our children will ever pass the 'terrible tens' or the monosyllabic fourteens! Our role is to bring them to maturity, and some degree of independence, by their eighteenth birthday. There are many subtly different shades of management that apply to each stage, during this eighteen-year journey. It is one of the greatest tasks with which the human being is confronted. It is genuinely life altering. We are all products of our parents, yet few, if any of us, have any training in parenting. Former Daily Mail columnist Peter Gilchrist takes us through the trials and tribulations that can occur when our children are growing up, and offers invaluable advice on how to deal with the trickiest of situations. |
Contents
Your Issues and How They Affect the Family Unit | 1 |
Can you be a pal and a parent? | 3 |
How to stay amicable for your childrens sake after separation | 5 |
Single parents and divorce | 10 |
Step parents | 15 |
How robust should our support be for our children? | 18 |
Keeping your cool | 22 |
Jealousy can we be jealous of our children? | 25 |
Comfort eating | 99 |
Children who are constantly feigning illness | 101 |
Bullying | 105 |
Dont tell tales | 108 |
Conflict between our children | 112 |
Tweenies is your daughter a tweeny? | 116 |
Bolshie teenagers | 118 |
How to teach your children to listen | 120 |
What do you do if a parent prefers one child to another? | 27 |
Do grandparents spoil? | 30 |
The travelling parent | 32 |
Passive smoking | 35 |
The family as a Team and You are the Manager | 39 |
Discipline spare the rod | 41 |
Pocket money | 43 |
Expensive football strips | 46 |
Christmas and surviving it | 49 |
The very bright younger sibling | 54 |
A place in the sun for each twin | 57 |
Drugs understanding and management | 59 |
Pop idols and their influence | 71 |
Pets are not just for fun | 73 |
Bereavement and how it affects us all | 77 |
The emerging young adult | 83 |
The first time children holiday unaccompanied | 85 |
Common Issues and What You Can Do | 89 |
Attention seeking | 91 |
Stealing | 92 |
Lying | 97 |
My childs unfortunate friends | 122 |
Does my child have to be competitive? | 126 |
Information and Communication Technology A curse or a blessing? | 129 |
Teen crush | 138 |
Teenage Sexuality | 143 |
Teenage pregnancy | 147 |
Young people and alcohol | 150 |
Leaving the nest | 155 |
Collaborating to Manage Academic Stress | 159 |
Homework | 161 |
Can our children work too hard? | 166 |
Controlling exam nerves | 169 |
Gifted and talented children | 177 |
Is Your Child Struggling at School? | 183 |
Dyslexia | 185 |
Dyspraxia | 192 |
Attention Deficit with or without Hyperactivity Disorder ADDADHD | 196 |
Aspergers syndrome | 203 |
Glossary | 211 |
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Common terms and phrases
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