Yes, Your Teen is Crazy!: Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind

Bradley, Michael J.

ISBN 10: 0936197587 ISBN 13: 9780936197586

Publisher: Harbor Press, Inc., 2006

Synopsis

An indispensable how-to manual for parents raising teenagers in today's crazy world. The fear-based techniques of the past no longer work, says the author, who advocates an entirely new approach for parenting the echo boomer generation.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Harbor Press is proud to announce that Yes, Your Teen Is Crazy! is the WINNER of five major literary and parenting awards including a 2002 Parents' Choice Approved Award and the National Parenting Center 2002 Seal of Approval.

I don’t even have children -- much less teenage children. Neither do half a dozen other people I know who, like me, started reading the opening pages of this book and found themselves hooked -- utterly unable to put it down. For non-parents, YES, YOUR TEEN IS CRAZY! is that fascinating. For parents , Mike Bradley’s book is so compelling, so tightly packed with unarguable wisdom, understanding, and down-to-earth advice, it’s destined to become classic.

My favorite part? Bradley fills his book with beautifully told stories which are real, genuine, and will resonate with a whole range of feelings deep down inside you. They will indeed make you laugh and cry. They will outrage and inspire you. And they will renew confidence and faith in your sacred mission of raising a new generation.

Get ready for a truly great read.

- Harry R. Lynn

From the Author:

This book is not mine. I really didn’t write it. Like a surrogate mother, I just carried it. It was created by the many families that I’ve had the incredible honor to know in my 27 years of working with kids. Their words rose up out of the echoes of fear, laughter, pain, and love that rang off the walls of my office after a shift of working with troubled teens and their families. After hours on most nights, I’d sit exhausted and yet exhilarated trying to comprehend the incredible things I’d seen that day, madly scribbling notes to save the wise, healing words of these families from slipping through my fingers into oblivion. At night, I’d bolt up out of bed to write more as other thoughts and insights of these people exploded through my sleeping brain. Like a frantic messenger, I felt possessed by the thought that I had to tell what I’d seen. I wrote this book to get their words out of me so I could sleep again. Once I finished, I couldn’t read this book for months, perhaps afraid it would possess me again. Or perhaps frightened that all of those incredible words I was barely hanging onto might have evaporated off the pages. But as I read the book now, I feel calm, for I can see that my work was not so much writing as it was an attempt to capture the simple, powerful humanity of the wonderful people I’ve been honored to work with. These folks have gifted me with themselves in so many ways that I can never hope to repay. The best I can do is to pass along their words as gifts to you, wrapped in the wish that so many of these parents expressed: that I tell you their stories of pain, loss, and fear so that you might come to more easily know their joy---the joy of feeling once again lovingly connected to your adolescent child.

--Michael J. Bradley

About this edition

• Publisher: Harbor Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0936197587
• ISBN 13: 9780936197586
• Binding: Audio CD
• Number of pages: 7