Product Description

"With wit and wisdom, Peter [Marshall] gives parents practical, useful and thoughtful advice to help their teenagers grow into responsible, resourceful, and resilient people who treat themselves and others with dignity and regard."
-Barbara Coloroso, educator and author

Everyone troubled by teens of their own will find consolation in this book. Dr. Peter Marshall, child psychologist, father of five and former teenager, provides an abundance of practical information, advice and observations on all walks of adolescent and pre-adolescent life. The result is a fun and easy-to-read book for the salvation of beleaguered parents everywhere. Among other things, Dr. Marshall discusses the transition from childhood to adulthood and the drive for independence that can wreak havoc on the whole family.

Included are such timely issues as:

• Ways to support and strengthen self-esteem
• Various parenting styles, such as authoritarian, permissive, democratic and management by guilt
• The intense rate of change in teens' lives
• The "Boomerang Generation" - kids who never leave home
• Difficult teenage issues, including sex and sex education, values, school, work and play, cliques, crowds and friendships
• Ways to encourage a healthy lifestyle, to promote fitness and to deal with the growing epidemic of obesity
• Helping teens find constructive ways to channel their concerns about the environment
• Safety on the Internet.

More issues than ever challenge young people today. This book provides thoughtful counsel for dealing with them.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1428987 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Review
"... he combines his personal and professional experiences in a way that parents will find thought-provoking, reassuring and useful." -- Barbara Coloroso, educator and author of Kids Are Worth It!

... this book offers parents realistic, practical, and humane strategies for interacting with their adolescent children. -- Canadian Book Review Annual, 1999

Non judgmental guide to helping parents communicate with teens. Marshall is a child psychologist and the father of five. -- Self-help/How to: Review in Vancouver Province Newspaper April 9, 2000

About the Author

Dr. Peter Marshall is a practicing clinician and university professor. He is an international speaker who has written books on stepfamilies and balancing work and home. He lives in Toronto.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
From Foreword: Parenting is a unique profession -what other demands such a high level of skill, commitment and creativity while offering little, of any, training? In the space of two decades parents are expected to take a newborn child and create a well-adjusted, independent and responsible adult.

Throughout my professional career I have argued that there is no recipe for Parenting. There is no tried and true collection of techniques for raising children and there are no experts who can give parents the secrets of success. There are however, ideas and approaches that can be explored. There are ways to foster self-esteem and opportunities to teach children the principles of responsibility and mutual respect. Parents have tremendous powers to shape and strengthen the family. Using this power wisely becomes so important as children grow older; the teenage years require a delicate balance between the young person's need to gain independence and self-reliance, and the parent's need to retain influence and authority.

Now I know Why Tigers Eat Their Young reflects all of these values and perspectives. Dr. Marshall neither preaches nor prescribes; instead, he combines his personal and professional experiences in a way that parents will find thought-provoking, reassuring, and useful. Peter treats the subject matter with respect, but he also adds his personal brand of humor that makes the book as entertaining as it is informative.

The new edition builds on the original book in many ways. The chapters on self-esteem and discipline have been extended to include the content of the workshops Peter has been asked to give on this very important topic. He has added a chapter on gender differences in which he helps parents recognize how they can prevent their teens from being limited by the harmful stereotypes that continue to be present in our culture. His chapter for single-parent and stepfamilies addressed their unique challenges; it also reflects both his work as a family therapist and his personal experiences as a member of a blended family.

Above all, Now I Know Why Tigers Eat Their Young is a book that gives parents practical, useful, and thoughtful advice to help their teenagers grow into responsible, resourceful and resilient people who treat themselves and others with dignity and regard.

Barbara Coloroso,

Educator and author of Kids are Worth It! Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline and Parenting With Wit and Wisdom in Times of Chaos and Loss.

Customer Reviews

Clichés and a borrowed title
Cutesy stories about coping with teenagers; there isn't anything here you haven't already heard, many times before, or read for free from Dear Abby.

The only thing this book has going for it is the catchy title, and even that was borrowed from the movie Caddyshack, and was first spoken by the late, great, Rodney Dangerfield. Take away the catchy title and you've got, "Oh, Those Wacky Teenagers!"

Loved the book
This was the perfect book for what I wanted. VERY HUMOROUS. Makes you think about what you were like as a teen and why we expect so much out of our teens.