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Title: The Ambitious Generation: America's Teenagers, Motivated but Directionless by Barbara Schneider, David Stevenson ISBN: 0300082754 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Summary: Wazzzupp- -With Your Teen?
Comment: Having two teen sons leads my nose of curiosty to all sorts of helpul books. No one source is a panacea. However, I am happy to know I am not alone in this wonderous yet sometimes bothersome Generation X. Baggy pants, booming music, wild hair colors, peculiar body piercings all are cries for individuality. But is there any sort of ambition under those generational masks? Yes--boundless ambition, in need of direction.
This book by David Stevenson and Barbra Schneider comes in hardback and paperback. I suggest the paperback. You are going to want to refer to it time and again. One theme I have noticed in many books including "The Devoicing Of America", is that of isolation. Teens today are wrapped into computers & video games so much, they have gotten away from a guiding hand. They are alone and lost.
Surprisingly, compared with the 1950's generation, today's teens have fewer long-lasting relationships and spend much more time alone. Many stay in college longer in lieu of leaping into marriage. They need more guidance than ever before. Would we expect a lone traveler to be told you must reach point A and not give them any map, or ideas or support? No, everyone needs some direction.
The study these adolescence experts did of over 7,000 teens shows this generation to be the most ambitious of them all. These teens expect to go to college, graduate and find high paying jobs. On the other hand, when asked how, few had answers. They just expect it. And some of the blame rests on we parents and teachers. Teens take the wrong courses, choose the wrong colleges and then enter college with unrealistic expectations.
Through this book, we can find helpful ways of directing teens and even pre-teens of today without adding pressures. I found the following of several students ( Grace, Elizabeth, and Jake) throughout their high school years and then re-visiting them in college interesting case studies of comparison of tools which can be implemented by any care giver.
Again, getting back to basics is a central theme. Of course it does not solve everything. It is a first step. It is a way of beginning a successful trip through adolesence to positive adulthood. A way to make dreams come true. Be there for your teen. Communicate. Listen.
Of course, you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink--leave the book out, you'll see, the ponies of today will also quench themselves and find help in becoming strong stallions of tomorrow.
--CDS--
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Title: Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Barbara Schneider ISBN: 0465015417 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Rise andFall of the American Teenager by Thomas Hine ISBN: 0380728532 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Patricia Hersch ISBN: 034543594X Publisher: Ballantine Books (Trd Pap) Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Framing Youth: Ten Myths About the Next Generation by Mike A. Males ISBN: 1567511481 Publisher: LPC Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Talented Teenagers : The Roots of Success and Failure by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Kevin Rathunde, Samuel Whalen ISBN: 0521574633 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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