Book description
The popular RT series Teens in the Wild showed David Coleman
doing what he does best: taking families who were locked in conflict
and turning things around. It wasn't always easy, but the results were
dramatic, moving and inspiring.
The key to a successful journey through adolescence centres on the
recognition that parenting styles have to develop and progress through
this period. In Parenting is Child's Play: The Teenage Years,
David Coleman explains why adolescence gets such a bad press and,
reassuringly, why parents don't have to dread it. Even if affection,
respect and cooperation seem to be replaced by contempt, rejection and
recalcitrance, there is an explanation for these changes and they
don't have to cause irreparable damage.
Parenting is Child's Play: The Teenage Years provides key
information about what is going on with your child, and is brimming
with helpful advice and down-to-earth strategies. For parents
supporting their children on one of the most important journeys
they'll ever undertake - the journey from childhood to adulthood -
it is essential reading.
David Coleman is a husband and father of three children. In his spare
time he is a clinical psychologist who works with children, teenagers
and their families with a range of emotional or behavioural
difficulties. He also supervises and supports others who work with
children and families, and he gives lectures and runs workshops around
Ireland. David's straightforward, encouraging and successful approach to
even the trickiest situations has been greeted with widespread acclaim.
It is built on the belief that, if children are happy and having fun,
then parents will be happier and have more fun too.
