Love in the Time of Contempt: Consolations for Parents of Teenagers - Couverture souple

Fedler, Joanne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1742707300 ISBN 13 : 9781742707303

Editeur : Hardie Grant Books, 2015

Synopsis

Welcome to the world of parenting teens. This new era is about enduring intermittent bouts of contempt and not taking it personally. It s about picking the fights that are worth having because through them your kids get to know who you are as a person, what you stand for and what you won t tolerate.

Love in the Time of Contempt is a gritty look at the day-to-day interactions with teenagers in which Joanne Fedler takes us on a journey from frustration, to confusion, to elation and back again. Here she shares her philosophy that we are meant to parent imperfectly. Our mistakes are the start of the important conversations we need to have with our kids. But we are meant to parent mindfully: parenting needs a framework, a vision of life that it is in service to.

This is a book about how it feels to be the parent of someone sprouting hair, tits and attitude all over the place. It is a tussled, frazzled and complex business to remain mature while supporting someone to become an adult. At the very least, it raises the question of whether we have, in fact, done enough growing up ourselves. Love in the Time of Contempt is an honest look at the dramas and delights of parenting people who know it all, don t yet have a full functioning brain and who desperately need us to parent them just not in the way we re used to.

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À propos de l'auteur

Joanne Fedler graduated from Yale with a Masters of Law and is an ex women s rights advocate and law lecturer. She is particularly proud of the fact that she was once named Asshole of the Month by Hustler magazine for her work against violence pornography.

Joanne is now a published author, journalist, inspirational speaker and writing mentor. She was born in South Africa and now lives in Sydney with her husband Zed, two teenagers and two cats. (www.joannefedler.com.)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hardie Grant Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1742707300
• ISBN 13: 9781742707303
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible