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| Susie Vanderlip,
CSP |
Certified
Speaking Professional, Youth and
Family Issues Expert, Prevention
Consultant,
College Professor, Dancer, Actor, and
Creator/Performer of the internationally-acclaimed
one-woman show |
| LEGACY OF HOPE® |
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Dear Friends,
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I wrote this book based
on lengthy one-on-one conversations with 25,000
individual teens following my LEGACY OF HOPE® assemblies
at their schools and youth conferences. SInce
1991, I've been incredibly privileged to present
to one million teens and adults in 47 states and
Canada. But it has been these heartwarming and,
often, heartbreaking personal disclosures of teenagers
that told me we adults have been living in a bubble
of illusion and denial! The world our youth are
growing up in today is not the same as the world
of our childhood. The pressures and the pains of
adolescence are magnified multi-fold, and so are
the means of escaping them.
So we adults need a reality check AND we need to
know how to reach teenagers raised in a digital,
multi-media, sound-bite, extreme, star-studded,
sexualized, endorsed drug-using social environment.
Let's not forget that it is a bottom-line profits
world today in which we've allowed corporate America
to market everything under the sun to our youth
with sexual messages we would have considered pornography
a generation ago.
Today, we have more teens from homes with parents
who themselves have alcohol or drug addictions,
more teens from abandonment, more teens being raised
by grandparents who age and die leaving youth with
grief and no security.
Teen music has become angrier as teens vent anguish
and loss the only way they know how. And new epidemics
spread like wildfire with the advent of Internet
and cell phones and chat rooms and blogs -- self-harm
(teens cutting on their bodies with razor blades)
is currently in vogue as a vehicle to cope with
utterly unfathomable feelings of self-loathing and
worthlessness.
Being a teenager isn't easy, my friends! And neither
is being a parent!!
Because of my unusual opportunity to be trusted
by teens all across America, and my willingness,
if not ability to relate to their pains, I listened
from my adult mind and my youthful heart. I evaluated
from an adult perspective but removed the instinct
to react out of fear for what a teen might do. I
compared my observations and conclusions against
the research of clinical psychology today and prevention
specialists. |
HERE are THE INSIDE
TRUTHS ABOUT TEENS!
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HERE
is the HOPE THAT YOU CAN REACH THEM
AND POSITIVELY IMPACT THEIR CHOICES!
Want to sleep better at night, PARENTS
and GRANDPARENTS, knowing you've truly
connected with your teens?
THERAPISTS, COUNSELORS and EDUCATORS,
want to have concrete tools to get
teens listening and responding?
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TEEN: Want to know how to talk to your parents
so they will hear you and to listen for what your
parents' words REALLY mean?
52 Ways is easy to read -- read a little, read a
lot, then re-read when you want to try out a new
skill or approach to a teen, on a day he/she is
sporting a less than communicative "attitude"!
Put it in the bathroom, by the bed, in your backpack,
or on your desk for easy reference. It's that kind
of book! A companion on days when you're at your
wits end of parenting or just can't take another
confrontation with your parents. HOW TO with a mighty
mix of HOPE!
And check out the Index, too. There's easy reference
to Emotions Based on Fear that interfere in our
most precious relationships. And Emotions Based
on Love that facilitate better, more compassionate,
more rewarding relations between any two people,
young and old.
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