The parent slant

ISBN: 9780805456066

定价: 39.00

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Why This Book?
So many times since the appearance of The Teen-Age Slant???
coauthored by Jerry Merriman??? I have been asked by parents:
\"Why don t you do a book for parents? We need help as ur-
gently as do the teen-agers!\"
I had been a teen-a~er; and remembering the complications
of those years??? and haVing worked with teen-agers for most of
my adult years??? I felt I t~d a degree of qualification to write for
teeners. However??? I am not a parent??? and??? therefore??? I have had
greater reluctance to undertake a book for parents??? lest I appear
to be posing as an authority in an area of life in which I have
not had actual experience.
Two conversations changed my mind in that regard. First???
two parents said to me: \"You have not reared children of your
own??? but you have been a substitute parent many times. Fur-
thermore??? young people talk to you more fully and frankly than
they talk to their parents generally??? and you could be most help-
ful to those of us who are parents by sharing with us the needs
they share with you.\"
Later??? several young people in a high school in which I had
spent a week in answering their questions suggested this possi-
bility: \"Dr. Swor??? why don t you write a book for parents??? giving
them some of the information which you have given to us? They
might listen to you in some instances in which they wouldn t
listen to us.\"
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