All Grown Up And No Place To Go - Hardcover

Elkind, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201113783 ISBN 13: 9780201113785

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 1984

Synopsis

Once our society set aside time for adolescents to grow from children to adults, to become accustomed to their expanding bodies and minds. Now the markers that defined passage differences in dress, behavior, and responsibilities have vanished. The institutions that guarded adolescence, such as family and schools, now expect young adultsâ to deal with adult issues. Those trends leave teens no time to be teens.All Grown Up and No Place to Go spotlights the pressures on teenagers to grow up quickly. The resulting problems range from common alienation to self-destructive behavior. Quoting teenagers themselves, Elkind shows why adolescence is a time of thinking in a new key,â and how young people need this time to get used to the social and emotional changes their new thinking brings. Many of his ideas, such as the imaginary audienceâ that makes teens so self-conscious, have become seminal in adolescent psychology.Already there are more than 175,000 copies of All Grown Up and No Place to Go in print. In this thoroughly revised edition, Elkind also explores the post-modern familyâ in which teenagers are growing up. He helps parents and those who work with youth and understand teens in crucial ways, because the root of so many adolescent frictions is the gap between what teenagers need and what our culture provides.

About this title

About the Author:

David Elkind, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at Tufts University and the author of a dozen books, including The Hurried Child and All Grown Up and No Place to Go. He lives outside of Boston and on Cape Cod.

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0201113783
• ISBN 13: 9780201113785
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232