Go to Hell or Come to Me!: Teenology Made Easy

By Dr Jawahar Surisetti

Go to Hell or Come to Me is a guide for understanding teenagers better. The author writes on various issues of teenage that concerns parents and the teens themselves like health, sleep, love, peers, relationship with parents, music, technology and many aspects that are difficult to comprehend. This book has all the answers to problems that parents have and opens up the why and how of teenology. Dr Jawahar Surisetti is an international figure in teen related matters and tries to give simplistic stories which every reader can identify.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Aug 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9781482837681

Dr Jawahar Surisetti

Dr Jawahar Surisetti is a psychologist and motivator for youth and children known for his 1300+ speeches and seminars across the globe. He has been awarded Man of the year by the US State and NYT Da Vinci Innovator for his Think! Curriculum. His book on parenting kids “Mama & Me” has sold more than 1.7 million copies worldwide.

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Copyright © 2014 by Dr Jawahar Surisetti.

ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-4828-3766-7

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CONTENTS

1      Teen No Longer Your Baby

2      Teen’s Body

3      Teen Brain

4      Teen Health

5      Teen Anger

6      Teen And Technology

7      Teen Love

8      Teen At School

9      Formulae For Success With Teens

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to Sujata- my wife, Jayesh and Jagrit – my two lovely sons.

INTRODUCTION

Teens have this devil may care attitude and that is the reason I named the book ‘Go to hell or come to me’. It sums up the attitude of the teen.

Parents continue to treat teens as an extension of children whereas the teen expects the treatment to be an extension of the adult. This is the core of all maladies in this situation of flux.

The consequences are:

* suicide is the third leading cause for death among teens

* 38.9% of our teens receive treatment for major and minor depression.

Abandonment of traditional values, music and entertainment that shows violence as a virtue including gut exploding video games, easy availability of drugs and alcohol, increasing affluence due to both parents working and many more factors would be discussed ahead. A rounded approach would be taken to understand all aspects of the teen life.

CHAPTER 1

Teen no longer your baby

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Parenting needs a makeover. We think all children need one parenting download at all points of life.

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The point when the child shows her first strains of adulthood is one of shock for the parents. The subdued, all obedient, I will ask my mother kind of girl, suddenly breaks out of the family shell and tries to reach out into the world.

The thing we need to remember is that our children grow and they are no longer children ; they are teenagers. But it is our inertia that keeps us in the state of belief that they are still children.

The anxiety or non-acceptance of the change of status of teens is the major cause of what is going