Greetings and welcome to my blog. This is the 31st edition of The Green Spotlight. The green spotlight is a weekly blog where I review interesting books with the aim of wetting our reading appetite to peruse the pages of these great books and draw out so much for ourselves.
Reading is one of the greatest virtues we can cultivate. Not just any kind of reading but books that are inspirational in nature and would motivate us to become the best of who we are.
If you missed our last edition on “ Things I Wish I’d Known Before We Got Married”, you can find it here, Edition 30
This week we are going to look into a very important book that deals with a very sensitive part of our lives and the subject of the family The tittle of the book for review is “Adolescent flash points”.
Unto the review of the week
Author: Okon Eyo
Number of chapter: 12
Number of pages: 65
Year of publication: 2010
Published by : Scribd
My opinion about the book “Adolescent flash points”
Introduction/Theme
Adolescence stage is a very important part of our lives and family. A lot of children transition from the teens stage to adolescence stage and a lot of parents tend to lose track of their children or become hostile to their children all in a bid to control them or train them.
A lot of these adolescence feel not heard or stranged and hence they go ahead to live lives out of the norm. If the parents understand adolescence stage of their childrens life, it could be a different ball game than what it is presently.
Let’s look at some interesting tips to take away from the pages of this great book.
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Key points from the chapters
- Adolescent stage is characterized by so many things and they include; stubborness and disobedience. The once obedient child is growing from childhood into adolescence and is becoming more aware of himself and would want to be heard and treated as an adult but parents still see them as children.
These adolescents feel they are not being heard and wants to show that they should be given the respect they deserve and they tend to become disobedient and rebellious while the parent’s keep wandering what had gone wrong with their child. The balance comes when the parents are able to listen to their children’s need.
- Adolescents become secretive and starts keeping things to themselves and would no longer discuss certain things with their parents but would rather discuss them with their peers. Most parents become aggressive and changes their attitudes towards their children which makes them loose trust in their parents and would geer towards their peers.
To handle this, parents must maintain maturity towards their children and not let their actions determine their attitudes. They must keep in track with trends of things to have reasonable things to discuss with their children.
- The adolescent becomes inquisitive and very adventurous and wants to try out new things. They become easily distracted and bored around their parents and even in church . They become more attracted to the opposite sex and emotional.
While all these and more are going on with the adolescent, it is the duties of the parents to find ways to mitigate these changes and reach out to their children in this very sensitive stage of their life to avoid loosing them.
Your adolescent is not crazy, you just have to understand how to reach them. Do you want to know more, find out in this awesome and succinct book.
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My rating of the book
This is the first book am seeing on adolescent and I think the topic is quiet catchy for anyone who wants to know how to handle their adolescent and not loose touch on their children.
Conclusion
A lot of us passed through this stage and some of us lost touch with our parents because we felt they didn’t understand us. Do you want the same thing to happen with you and your kids?
If our parents didn’t get it right with us, we should get it right and here’s how to start.
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