Being a teenager is tough, being a parent of a teenager is even tougher! This book offers insight into the biological and emotional changes affecting youngsters and offers advice to worried parents, teachers and teenagers. Topics include: smoking, drugs, sex, eating disorders, the importance of a father's involvement in a child's development, handling teenage conflict, bipolar, self-harming and how the teenage brain develops. It also offers an explanation as to why young people take more risks than their parents.
It is written by a very experienced headteacher who is himself a parent of two teenagers.