Time to Toss Your Cap in the Air APPENDIX INDEX ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS Welcome to your new role as parent of a teenager! Congratulations on making it this far as a parent. What to Expect When You’re Expecting Your Kid to Leave Money, Work, and Responsibility: Making CentsĪdventures in Teen Style CHAPTER 7 GRADUATION: FLYING THE COOP AND BEYOND Moody Blues: Signs of Teen Depression CHAPTER 6 PEP RALLY: LIMIT-TESTING AND INDEPENDENCE ▪ Emotional Seizures: When There’s No Going Back ▪ Prom Pointers CHAPTER 5 LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT: THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNICATION The Birds and the Bees: It’s Time for The Talkĭance Fever: Dances, Proms, and Other Courtship Rituals Tech Talk: How to Keep Your Teen Safe in Cyberspace ▪ Mean Girls, Inscrutable Boys: Meet the Stereotypes You Are No Longer the Center of Your Child’s UniverseĬhild Abandonment Syndrome: Parents’ Edition ▪ Road Tripping and Campus Visits CHAPTER 4 SOCIAL STUDIES: YOUR TEEN’S SCENE Ready or Not: Time to Think About College Performance Anxiety: Helping Your Kid Handle Stress Reality Check: What If It Is a Learning Disorder? ▪ How to Preserve Grades by Conserving Energy ▪ Teen Obsessives’ Edition CHAPTER 3 SCHOOL DAZE: MANAGING ACADEMIC LIFE The Skin Game: Whiteheads, Blackheads, Acne, and Misery Teen Zombies on the Loose: What You Need to Know About Teen Sleep ▪ My Amygdala Made Me Do It! Or, What’s Really Happening to Your Child’s Brain Going Mental: This Is Your Teen’s Brain on Hormones ▪ Spontaneous Erections and Other Surprises Rogue Penises: What’s Going On Down There? ▪ Early and Later Signs of Puberty for Boys ▪ Early and Later Signs of Puberty for Girls It’s All in the Timing: His and Her Puberty You Are Not Your Child CHAPTER 2 PHYSICAL EDUCATION: THE CHANGING BODY AND MIND OF YOUR TEEN ▪ Give Me Your Unconditional Love, Part 2 The Most Important Habits of a Highly Successful Parent

McGurkĬopyright INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 CRAM SESSION: PREPPING FOR THE TEEN YEARSīrave New World: Understanding What’s Motivating Your Teen

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