Part Eight: Just Tell Me what to do about…Cellphones and Smartphones
by Joani Geltman
A Survival Guide to Parenting Teens
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Just Tell Me what to do about…Raising a Teen
- 1 - Deflection and Denial: Your Teen's Main Defense Mechanisms
- 2 - My Teenage Clone: The Power of Conformity
- 3 - Getting your Teen Up in the Morning: Strategies for Eliminating the Daily Fight from the Morning Routine
- 4 - You can't Always Get what you Want: The Demanding and Entitled Teen
- 5 - Too Much Time on their Hands: The Busier the Teen, the More Motivated
- 6 - The Power of Puberty: Changing Body, Changing Brain
- 7 - L is for Lazy: Getting your Teens to do what you Want them to Do
- 8 - Trust vs. Temptation: How to Help a Sneaky Teen
- 9 - Lies of Omission: “Oh. I didn't Think I had to Tell you That”
- 10 - Why don't Boys Talk? A Different Kind of Silent Treatment
- 11 - My Kid the Quitter: Why won't My Teen Stick with Anything?
- 12 - The Parent-Teen Power Struggle: You can't Make Me
- 13 - Helping your Teen with Remembering: You Forgot your __________ Again?
- 14 - Teen Self-Absorption: My Teen the Narcissist
- 15 - My Teen the Pit Bull: Never Takes No for an Answer
- 16 - The Teen who Talks Back: The Kid's Got Attitude
- 17 - The Messy Room: To Clean or not to Clean
- Part Two: Just Tell Me what to do about…Keeping My Teen Motivated and Engaged in School
- 18 - Why can't My Teen do Better? How to Assess Achievement
- 19 - Studying and Learning vs. Texting and Facebook: Strategies for Time Management
- 20 - The Plight of the Homework Avoider: It's not Just Laziness
- 21 - The Drama of Exams: A Strategy for Success
- 22 - The Report Card: A Call to Action
- 23 - Summer Reading: Thank you Teachers, for Ruining My Last Few Weeks of Summer
- Part Three: Just Tell Me what to do about…Navigating the College Process
- 24 - Senioritis-Parentitis: Surviving the Application Process and Tips for Successful College Visits
- 25 - Eenie, Meenie, Miney Mo, to which College should I Go? A Roadmap for Decision Making
- 26 - What to Expect from your High School Graduating Senior: Letting Go
- 27 - What to Expect from your College Students when they Return Home
- Part Four: Just Tell Me what to do about…Helping My Teen Avoid the Friendship Traps
- 28 - The Bully Pulpit: Strategies to Ward Off a Bully
- 29 - Loyalty in Teens can be Harmful to their Health: Penn State, a Case Study
- 30 - The Agony of a Ninth-Grade Boy: What it Feels Like to be the Youngest Boy in the School
- 31 - Teens who Feel Left Out: “Why don't they Ever Call Me?”
- 32 - The Bad Seed Friend: What to do about the Friend you Wish your Teen didn't Have
- Part Five: Just Tell Me what to do about…Drinking and Drugs
- 33 - Getting to know your Teen's Drinking Personality: What Motivates your Teen to Drink or do Drugs?
- 34 - Keeping your Teens Safe If or When they Choose to Drink: A Successful Strategy
- 35 - The Consequences of Teens Drinking in your Home: It's Always your Responsibility to Keep Teens Safe
- 36 - What Happens when Teens are Left Unsupervised: A Room-for-Improvement Parenting Story
- 37 - A Chilling Drinking Story: Alcohol and Date Rape
- 38 - Dope, Weed, Pot, Grass, Cannabis, Marijuana, Hemp: They All Spell Trouble
- 39 - Teen-Proofing your Home for Alcohol and Drug Safety: Looking at your Home through a New Lens
- 40 - Party Planning with your Teen: Commonsense Rules
- Part Six: Just Tell Me what to do about…Understanding and Dealing with My Teen's Sex Life
- 41 - Talking to your Teen about Sex
- 42 - Boy wants Sex, Girl Likes Boy: Helping your Daughter Say No
- 43 - Spin the Bottle and Other Sexual Situations: Strategies for Good Decision Making
- 44 - Keeping your Teen Dressing Like a Teen: Sexy and the Teenage Girl
- 45 - Finding your Teen between the Sheets: Love in the Afternoon
- 46 - Is your Teen Gay/Lesbian? Discussions on Sexuality
- Part Seven: Just Tell Me what to do about…Online and Phone Sexting
- 47 - The Consequences of Sexting: A “Weinergate” Moment
- 48 - A Teenage Girl's Painful Lesson: A Private Photo goes Public
- 49 - Sexual Harassment: Sending Sexy Photos is not Always a Choice
- 50 - Skyping, Sexting, and Exotic Dancing: The Allure of a Live Audience
- 51 - The Legal Consequences of Sexting: My Son, the Sex Offender
- Part Eight: Just Tell Me what to do about…Cellphones and Smartphones
- 52 - Cellphone/Smartphone Monitoring: Should I or shouldn't I?
- 53 - Dealing with your Teen's Cellphone Addiction
- 54 - Does My Teen Text too Much? If so what can I do about It?
- 55 - Driving Distracted: Don't Let their Fingers do the Talking when they're Driving
- 56 - Teens Losing Sleep: Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Texting
- 57 - Should I Buy My Teen a Smartphone?
- 58 - A Scary Story: The Misuse of Smartphones
- Part Nine: Just Tell Me what to do about…Social Networking Sites and Applications
- 59 - Teaching your Teen Safe Posting: The Too-Much-Information Dilemma
- 60 - A “Friending” Intervention: Teaching your Teen how to “Make Friends” on Social Networking Sites
- 61 - To Give or not to Give: My Parents, My Passwords
- 62 - Facebook + Alcohol Posts = Problem Drinkers
- 63 - Icky New Social Networking Sites…Beware!
- 64 - Facebook Posts that could Put your Teen in Jail: Threats that are Taken Seriously
- 65 - Social Networking and the Stolen Identity: Keeping your Teens Safe from Other Teens
- 66 - I'll Give you My Password If you Give Me Yours: Going Steady in the 21st Century
- 67 - Cleaning Up Facebook and Twitter Posts: Preparing your Teen for the Real World of Jobs and College
- 68 - Online Bullying: Being Made Fun of can Really Hurt
- Part Ten: Just Tell Me what to do about…My Parenting Style
- 69 - Four Ways of Fighting: A Roadmap for Effective Arguing
- 70 - Puh-leez…No Lecture
- 71 - Playing the Game of Curfew: “Please can I? Everybody Else Is”
- 72 - Ask Less, Get More: Stop the Interrogation
- 73 - Too Much Love can be a Bad Thing: Holding your Teen Accountable
- 74 - Too Much, Too Soon: Understanding Age-Appropriate Privileges
- 75 - “So What, Who Cares?” Making Consequences Mean Something
- 76 - Teaching your Teen about Money Management: Curbing the Teen Money Pit
- 77 - I Just don't Fit into this Family Anymore: Helping your Teen to Feel Connected
- 78 - Successful Rule Making: Sharing the Control
- 79 - Good Cop–Bad Cop: A Parenting Dilemma
- 80 - Finding the Bliss with your Teen: Treasuring the Time
- Index
- About the Author
- Free Sample Chapter from Success under Stress
PART EIGHT
Just tell me what to do about…
Cellphones and Smartphones
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