Christmas Gift Book for Parents of Adolescents - A Special Offer

Dec. 2, 2011 - PRLog -- The Adolescent Owner's Manual is a highly readable guide for parents of teens from child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. David Laing Dawson. Readable because Dawson is also a best selling mystery writer/novelist, film writer and director. He has the rare ability to make complex and potentially dull reading entertaining as well  instructive.

Your goal as a parent,  Dawson says, should be to get your adolescent child into adulthood, alive, healthy, preferably educated and skilled, without a major drug problem or criminal record or pregnancy. Anything more is icing and a pleasure to behold.

And, this book is your support and encouragement to do the right thing to achieve the above goal.

In a review on the blog Acting Balanced, the reviewer states "David Laing Dawson delivered what I needed to read in spades". The review went on to say:

"I also love the way this manual is outlined.. it starts with 'Getting to know your Adolescent', works through 'Performance and Limitations of your Adolescent', includes an 'Owner's Maintenance Schedule' and my personal favorite section - 'Troubleshooting' with a subsection - Owner/Operator error.  The book also offers Work Arounds, a section about serious issues like depression, ADD/ADHD and others, and finally a FAQ section that deals with specific issues like cars, sex, shoplifting, drugs and more."

In a recent interview for sheknows.com, Dr Dawson said  "to increase the chance they will talk to you try this: a  non-judgmental attitude, a non-interrogative context, take the time, listen, wait and be slow to offer advice.” See http://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/846569/getting...

The Adolescent Owner's Manual ISBN 978-0-9866522-0-2, $15.95 or less is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Chapters/Indigo, in Kindle format  and distributed by Ingram. As a special offer to the end of 2011, e-book formats on Smashwords are 10% off. Use code UN95G at checkout. See http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/26086

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