What They Don't Teach Teens: Life Safety Skills for Teens and the Adults Who Care for Them *(Book)
The 21st-century guidebook of life safety skills for teens, their parents, and other caregivers, covering physical safety, sexual consent, social media, your rights with the police, situational awareness, dating violence, smartphones, and more. Gold Winner, IBPA Ben Franklin Award for Best Parenting & Family Book of 2020 Gold Winner, NIEA Award for Best Parenting & Family Book of 2020 Silver Winner, Foreword INDIE Award, Family & Relationships Young people coming of age today face new risks, expectations, and laws that didn't exist when their parents were young. What They Don't Teach Teens provides teens, tweens, and young adults with up-to-date, realistic strategies to protect themselves against the pitfalls of modern adolescence. Author Jonathan Cristall, once a troubled teen himself and now a veteran prosecutor for the City of Los Angeles and a sexual violence prevention instructor, works extensively with teenagers and their families to teach physical, digital, emotional, and legal safety skills. Drawing on Cristall's hands-on experience, What They Don't Teach Teens gives parents and other caregivers techniques for talking to their children about these urgent issues. What They Don't Teach Teens gives sound advice on police interactions and personal safety (your constitutional rights, what to do/not do when stopped by the police while driving, situational awareness, street robberies, gun violence); sexual violence and misconduct (sexual consent, sexual harassment prevention, dating violence, sextortion); and staying safer online (digital footprint and citizenship, cyberbullying, underage sexting, online porn). A must-read for all families, What They Don't Teach Teens is filled with practical guidance, thoughtful insight, and simple-to-use tips and tactics that will empower young people to make good choices now and into the future. Read more
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Why Must Read What They Don't Teach Teens: Life Safety Skills for Teens and the Adults Who Care for Them?
When I first saw this book, I assumed it was written for teenagers who either were naive or who had gone astray and were in need of direction. I was very pleasantly surprised to find that this wonderful book provides common sense guidance to adolescents of every level of maturity and life experience. As the title of the book suggests, many of the situations addressed in the book are seldom discussed, much less taught. However, as demonstrated in each of the book's eleven discrete, easy-to-read chapters, the issues raised are extremely important for teenagers (and their parents) to think about before a given situation arises. The author adeptly provides direction and well-considered insights as to a great many concerns, ranging from the common, mine-filled environment that combines alcohol and sex, to how to react safely in rare but life-threatening situations, such as when a predator tries to forcibly abduct a young man or woman. There's a lot to recommend about this book, every chapter of which would make for very interesting and educational dinner table conversations. More than anything else, though, if your teenager knows the safe and smart thing to do upon finding himself or herself in even one of the potentially life-altering situations discussed in this book -- simply because he or she read about it in this book and was prepared to follow the guidance it offered -- buying this book will be the best purchase you ever made.
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