A book review of Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety: A Complete Guide to Your Child’s Stressed, Depressed, Expanded, Amazing Adolescence by Dr. John Duffy
Stars: ****
Mango Publishing (2019)
Parenting>Teenagers
228 pages
Disclosure: I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This post contains affiliate links.
Summary: #1 Best Seller in School Age Children, Parenting Teenagers, Child Psychology, Adolescent Psychology, Anxieties & Phobias, and Hyperactivity A parenting wake-up call that could change how you raise your child.
Learn about the “New Teen” and how to adjust your parenting skills. Strategies for parenting teens are now beginning years too late. Kids are growing up with nearly unlimited access to social media and the internet, and unprecedented academic, social, and familial stressors. Starting as early as eight years old, children are exposed to information, thought, and emotion they are unprepared to process.
Unprecedented teenage depression and anxiety. Because of the exposure they face, kids are emotionally overwhelmed at a young age and often are continuing to search for a sense of self well into their twenties.
Urgent advice for parents of teens. Dr. John Duffy’s parenting book is a necessary guide that addresses the hidden phenomenon of the changing teenage brain. Dr. Duffy, a nationally recognized expert in parenting for nearly twenty-five years, provides a guidebook for parents raising children who are growing up quickly and dealing with unresolved adolescent issues that can lead to anxiety and depression.
Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety
I saw this book recommended on many parenting groups and decided I needed to read it. So I contacted the publisher for a review copy. I was not disappointed. I have three teens and this is definitely the age of anxiety. This book was published just before the pandemic which is surprising. It’s like the author knew more anxiety was coming. It’s perfect timing.
The book starts with painting the picture. Items discussed are the parent’s experience as a teenager is nothing like the experience of a current teenager. So many things have changed that it’s a different experience. So we don’t really know what it’s like. The New Teen and New Early Teen is discussed. Also covered is Self-Consciousness, Empathy, Social Media, Antidotes to Social Media, Emotional Bank Account and more.
Part Two is about addressing the issues. Anxiety, Mental Illness, Crisis, Alcohol, Drugs, Video Games, Relationships and Sex, Sexual Identity, Sexual Assault and Suicide.
Part Three is about filling your toolbox. What to do about all these issues. The Vibe in your home, Yeah it takes a village, music, sleep, when your kid seems awful and hope for the future.
If you have a teen or almost teen you will want this book.
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