Tweens

Author Andrea Clifford-Poston is registered as an Educational Therapist with the UKCP and has over 30 years’ experience of working with children and their parents. She is a regular guest expert on The Times ‘Parent Forum’ and contributes regularly to journals such as Nursery World. Her last book The Secrets of Successful Parenting is now in its second edition and has been translated across the world.

• Introduction Chapter 1 What kind of teenager will I be? – the task of being a tweenChapter 2 Suffering from body ambition … Understanding the impact of their physical developmentChapter 3 How tweens change familiesChapter 4 Cool of mateless …? Too many feelings in search of an identityChapter 5 ‘That’s so not fair …’ – boundaries and disciplineChapter 6 Keeping a head in schoolChapter 7 Just looking … just longing – ‘starting sexual relationships’Chapter 8 Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll on a diet – going off the railsChapter 9 Lone parents and tweens – holding the fort alone but crisplyFurther Useful Reading and AddressesReferences

"An invaluable insight into the world of the pre-adolescent."