Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall: A Parent’s Guide to the New Teenager, Revised and Updated
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- ISBN13: 9780374528539
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A groundbreaking new edition of the bestselling guide to raising teenagers
When Anthony E. Wolf’s witty and compassionate guide to raising adolescents was first published, its amusing title and fresh approach won it widespread admiration. Stressed parents breathed sighs of relief and gratitude. Now Dr. Wolf has revised and updated his bestseller to tackle the changes of the past decade. He points out that while the basic issues of adolescence and the relationships between parents and their children remain much the same, today’s teenagers navigate a quicker, less clearly anchored world. Wolf’s revisions include a new chapter on the Internet, a significantly modified section on drugs and drinking, and an added piece on gay teenagers. Although the rocky and ever-changing terrain of contemporary adolescence may bewilder parents, Get Out of My Life gives them a fantastic road map.
Amazon.com Review
This is a survival guide for parents who find themselves marooned among volatile and incomprehensible aliens on Planet Teen. Area maps take in the obvious ground–there are chapters on school, sex, suicide, and so on–but it’s the title of Chapter 2, “What They Do and Why,” that best captures the book’s spirit and technique. Anthony Wolf’s modus operandi is not so much to make pronouncements about what parents should do, as to clarify adolescent behavior in a way that’s bound to place parents with a changed view of the plausible options. Wolf is a clinical psychologist, and his writing is clear–even witty–and he doesn’t resort to jargon. The expository text is punctuated with snatches of illustrative dialogue, which serve as concrete examples and help parents learn how to see, anticipate, and avoid “terrible strategies.” (One key mistake is getting dragged into no-win conflicts as a replacement for of having the wisdom to shut up at the moment when shutting up would be most effective–albeit the least satisfying–thing to do.) There are also some nicely tongue-in-cheek samples of “ideal” communication–the stuff we imagine might get said if only we were better parents. After one such rosily cooperative and considerate interchange between a father and his adolescent son, Wolf offers the following two-edged comfort: “The above conversation has never happened. Never. Not in the whole history of the world.” Message: Parenting adolescents is inherently hard. Don’t judge your efforts by otherworldly standards. –Richard Farr
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Were I a teenager, I would most certainly have pitched a fit upon encountering the condescension and fatalism described by this leader.
His verbal irony is ironic only in the fact that he is completely serious (though this is hard to tell for some time into the book because its verisimilitude to satire is so fantastic). The teenagers he invents may or may not be crude fascimiles of his own children, but his personal vendetta against the teenage demographic is wholy undeserved and rather slimy (to use his own poor impression of teenage terminology).
Were I a parent who followed this man’s treacherous advice, I would find myself deservedly dangling from a ceiling fan after a so-called peaceful night of sleep – with my poor, maligned child standing at the switch.
Were I a teenager, I would also be inclined to pen a scathing review in protest of this…man’s insidious infamy.
As well, I would feel the necessity to speculate about his mental health/age/existance/tie to various government agencies that are in fact out to end the human species as we know it by eradicating through spontaneous combustion the demographic that is at its healthiest.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Book in perfect condition and came quick. Thank you so much!!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Brilliant. Can’t say enough about how it helped.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This book was recommended to me. It has a lot of excellent thoughts about understanding and dealing with teenagers. But I was very distressed by the use of terrible language throughout the book. It was used while quoting “predictable” teenage responses to parents, but it still is unnecessary. I am a teacher. I don’t allow that language from my teenagers at home, from my students, or from the adults I work & associate with when they are talking to me. I certainly don’t need to read that kind of language in my parenting materials. The more we accept terrible language in our media, the more of it we will hear. It is something we do not have to tolerate. Because of the language, I do not recommend this book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book tells it like it really is. Why your teenager seems
to despise you and what to do about it. As I read the first pages
I knew this book had the answers I was looking for. It’s awesome!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5