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Zusatztext “In his remarkable new book! renowned psychologist Ron Taffel has skillfully and perceptively captures the struggles and challenges faced by parents as they interact with kids who are much different from youngsters a generation ago. This book will serve as a major resource not only for parents but for professionals as well who interact with today's children and adolescents.” —Robert Brooks! Ph.D.! Faculty at Harvard Medical School! co-author of Raising Resilient Children and Raising a Self-Disciplined Child Informationen zum Autor Dr. Ron Taffel is one of the most esteemed and in-demand specialists on child rearing in the country, with a strong promotional platform. His workshops have been featured on 20/20 and Dateline ; he has appeared on The Today Show , GMA , Primtime Live , Larry King and many other shows. He has acted as a consultant to and held workshops for many major media sources, including The Today Show, The Early Morning Today Show, The Weekend Today Show, Good Morning America , The CBS Morning Show, Dateline, 20/20, The Larry King Show, NPR, Parents Magazine, Working Mother, Child Magazine, Family Circle and Cosmopolitan. He has been called “a Spock for our time” ( New Woman ) and “a genius addressing all the issues of family life” ( Child ). He founded the Family Therapy Division at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York City and he now serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute as a whole. The agency provides family counciling to over 500 clients a week with a faculty and staff of over three hundred professionals. He also continues to run a thriving practice as a family therapist. Klappentext Identifies the challenges facing parents as they raise their children in the early twenty-first century, and describes a parenting approach designed to encourage the good in kids of all ages, while steering them away from the bad. Zusammenfassung Dr. Ron Taffel! one of the country's most sought-after child-rearing experts! draws on decades of counseling experience and extensive conversations with parents nationwide to offer an original and inspiring analysis of the distinctive challenges parents face in raising children today. Dr. Ron Taffel! one of the country's most sought-after child-rearing experts! draws on decades of counseling experience and extensive conversations with parents nationwide to offer an original and inspiring analysis of the distinctive challenges parents face in raising children today. He also introduces a breakthrough approach for guiding kids—from children to teens—in ways that bring out the best in both kids and parents in these twenty-first-century times. With warmth and clarity! Taffel! who is himself a parent struggling with these issues! helps us to understand our sons and daughters in an entirely new way: as a distinctive “free-est” generation! born to the first generation of “post-baby boomer” parents and the products of a decades-long cultural sea change that intensified in the nineties. As a result! kids of all ages are now a bundle of contradictions: they exude entitlement! back talk shockingly! negotiate endlessly! worship celebrity! do ten things at once! conduct independent lives online! and engage in high-risk behavior at younger ages. Yet! they are also far more open with their parents and each other than kids in prior generations! are strikingly generous and empathetic! and care deeply about ethical issues. In addition! their high-speed multitasking is preparing them for the demands of the future. The key question! then! is how to encourage the good while steering them away from the bad . Taffel believes tod...
