Why Your Parents Are Driving You Up the Wall and What To Do About It: THE BOOK EVERY TEENAGER NEEDS TO READ
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‘A wonderfully useful book, told with wit and wisdom’ – Adam Kay, best-selling author of THIS IS GOING TO HURT
“Get up or you’ll miss the best part of the day!”
“You treat this place like a hotel.”
“Can you just put that phone down for one minute?!”
After years of reliable performance, has something recently gone wrong with your parents?
Do you find yourself stressed out, arguing about the most ridiculous things?
Is it like you’re processing the same world with entirely different brains?
Do you and your parents want to fix things?
There are hundreds of books for them about how to deal with you.
Now, for the first time, doctor of brains and international bestselling author, Dean Burnett has written a book for YOU to understand just what on earth is going on.
Like, just WHY are your parents:
– Obsessed with tidiness
– Not letting you get enough sleep
– Just generally not getting anything that’s important to you!
But don’t worry. These are very normal parent malfunctions, and by understanding the science behind where they’re coming from, you’ll know exactly how to troubleshoot conflict when it occurs (and even fix it before it does).
You’ll never be able to remove arguments completely. But imagine what you’d be capable of if you weren’t wasting all that time and energy arguing about tidying your room.
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Additional information
| Publisher | First Edition (22 Aug. 2019), Penguin |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 352 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0241403146 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0241403143 |
| Reading age | 11 – 16 years |
| Dimensions | 12.9 x 2.1 x 19.8 cm |
by Marilyn
I have purchased 3 of these books for Christmas gifts, obviously not read it but have ‘flicked through’ looks perfect and I hope that come Christmas morning I haven’t offended any parents who were once friends ????
by Mrs S Priest
As a mother of eleven year old twin girls, I bought a paperback copy for each of them and read the Kindle version myself. I am so glad I did. It has reminded me that, even as a grown-up, I can choose to see through younger eyes. The brain is plastic, after all. Us oldies are not necessarily destined to be welded to outdated views, prejudices or mindsets. We can adapt to the changing world, and therein lies our own opportunity for a youthful outlook. I am convinced that, in reading this book, I will – inadvertently – have laid a slightly smoother path for my girls, when puberty strikes.
by Jackie
My daughter (13) has been reading me daily chapters and it really is making sense to us both. She almost breathes a sigh of relief when she can relate and realises she isn’t going crazy! It’s also helping me to understand her better. Highly recommend!
by JA Salisbur
I bought it for my eldest granddaughter aged 12 to try and get her away from computer screens which didn’t work. However her younger sister aged 9 yrs (mature for her age) picked it up and hasn’t been able to put it down. She took it into school announcing granny bought it for us (I’m known to be a bit ahead of the curve as it were) and her friends surrounded her while she read it out and they were all giggling. I would say this is a hit, I don’t know how her teacher will feel about it but anything to get children reading. This is a HIT!! ☆☆☆☆☆
by wendy howarth
this was a useful reminder of what it is like to be going through your teenage years, and ultimately states that teenagers and parents are pretty much the same at the end of the day, only that your average teenager doesn’t generally have the same pressures as their parents. both parents and their young adults just need to listen to each more rather than arguing all the time, if that is their state of affairs is what this book pretty much concludes.
i was a kind of carer in my early teens, so you can’t tar all teenagers with the same brush, some of us have more than average responsibilities foisted on us than others, and you care out of love, but it can still be difficult. this book had good helplines at the end of it for young people who are going through serious mental trauma. if i could have read it when i was in my teens, i may have had more fun earlier. as it was, a friend re taught me how to have fun again in my twenties, and i love him/her for it. thank you, sadie.
being lgbt can still be hard these days, and dean burnett is sensitive to this. we are standing on the shoulders of giants, and today’s teenagers will be tomorrow’s giants, their shoulders may just be a bit broader than they are right now.
by MRS S.
I annotated a lot to suit our family successes and failures and could do better
Now my daughter hopefully will read…
by April
Assuming the teen reads it…it is pleasant and cute…
by customer
The book arrived promptly. It is of good quality. My daughter seems pleased with it, however refuses to read it. I think it might have something to do with her inability to face the truth about her unreasonable teenager’s behaviour. I might read it instead ???? it looks tempting. For now, we continue our tedious dance of mother-daughter struggle on a daily basis. God, have mercy on me.