{"product_id":"adolescence-is-not-a-disease-beyond-drinking-drugs-and-dangerous-friends-the-journey-to-adulthood-paperback","title":"Adolescence Is Not a Disease: Beyond Drinking, Drugs, and Dangerous Friends: The Journey to Adulthood - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeffrey Leiken\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHOW TO PREPARE YOUR TEEN TO SUCCEED IN A COMPLEX WORLD\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere are so many influences on teens and young adults today, the flood is impossible to control. Often, teens' questions about themselves and their futures are too much for parents to handle alone, or worse, go unnoticed and unanswered. The consequence of ignoring these can lead to decades of unnecessary struggle. \u003ci\u003eAdolescence Is Not a Disease\u003c\/i\u003e offers innovative, real-life, real-world solutions to problems both parents and teens face. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInternationally recognized mentor, Jeffrey Leiken, explains the three distinct stages of the deep and complex inner journey each teen goes through in becoming a self-sufficient adult, and how you can help your teens answer their most urgent and challenging questions and move toward fulfilling adulthoods. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLeiken shares themes, struggles, and solutions almost all teens and their parents face, highlighting the differences between coming-of-age in the twenty-first century, while honoring the universal constants that we all went through. Leiken poignantly discourages parents from blindly deferring to the pervasive, contemporary, one-dimensional, feardriven \"expert advice\" that too often pathologizes adolescence, misunderstands it, and creates the problems it then tries (and mostly fails) to fix. Rather than try to become an expert in parenting, Leiken will help you to instead become an expert in raising your own.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHOW TO PREPARE YOUR TEEN TO SUCCEED IN A COMPLEX WORLD \u003cbr\u003e There are so many influences on teens and young adults today, the flood is impossible to control. Often, teens' questions about themselves and their futures are too much for parents to handle alone, or worse, go unnoticed and unanswered. The consequence of ignoring these can lead to decades of unnecessary struggle. Adolescence Is Not a Disease offers innovative, real-life, real-world solutions to problems both parents and teens face. \u003cbr\u003e Internationally recognized mentor, Jeffrey Leiken, explains the three distinct stages of the deep and complex inner journey each teen goes through in becoming a self-sufficient adult, and how you can help your teens answer their most urgent and challenging questions and move toward fulfilling adulthoods. \u003cbr\u003e Leiken shares themes, struggles, and solutions almost all teens and their parents face, highlighting the differences between coming-of-age in the twenty-first century, while honoring the universal constants that we all went through. Leiken poignantly discourages parents from blindly deferring to the pervasive, contemporary, one-dimensional, feardriven \"expert advice\" that too often pathologizes adolescence, misunderstands it, and creates the problems it then tries (and mostly fails) to fix. Rather than try to become an expert in parenting, Leiken will help you to instead become an expert in raising your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJEFFREY LEIKEN\u003c\/b\u003e is the CEO of Evolution Mentoring International and cocreator of HeroPath International. He facilitates effective, real-world training and mentoring for teens and young adults. He has presented to over thirty thousand parents, teens, and youth development professionals; worked with hundreds of North American summer camps; guest lectured at Stanford University; and presented for TED. He has offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. He lives with his wife and daughters in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 25, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53005370654944,"sku":"9781599326344","price":16.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/tZII--raG89781599326344.webp?v=1781628547","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/adolescence-is-not-a-disease-beyond-drinking-drugs-and-dangerous-friends-the-journey-to-adulthood-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}