Parenting Across the Gap: Raising Teens in the 21st Century

Do your adolescent children, clients, or students have what it takes to make it in the 21st century? Do you battle the eye-rolling, stalled communication, and frustrating attitudes of the teenagers in your life? Are you puzzled by the gap between adolescents and adults in your home? Do you get frustrated with this growing divide between your own ideas, values, and expectations and those of the adolescents and young adults in your life? Using examples from his clinical work, Dr. Fred Peipman provides solutions, ideas, and creative ways of viewing the challenges involved in working with and raising teenagers. Providing adults with practical and easy-to-apply solutions and suggestions, parenting across the Gap gives adults the resources they need to effectively communicate with and understand adolescents and young adults in the 21st century. This provocative, entertaining, and easy-to-read book provides parents with such skills as: • Expecting, but not accepting deception • Being consistent as a parent • Setting clear boundaries • Asking the right questions • Understanding adolescent and parental expectations • How to get more information from adolescents • Skills to keep communication (and information) flowing Dr. Fred Peipman is a licensed psychologist working in the San Francisco Bay area and with clients across the country. He has worked in wilderness therapy, in private practice, and in college and high school settings. Dr. Fred's fresh approach to adolescent, family, and individual therapy is creative, direct and honest. Using a healthy dose of humor and irreverence, he gets through to teens, young adults, and their parents in a disarming and skillful way.