Learn about the “New Teen” and what it means for your parenting approach: 

Kids are growing up with nearly unlimited access to social media and the Internet, along with unprecedented academic, social, and familial stressors. Starting as early as eight-years-old, children are exposed to information, thought, and emotion that they are developmentally unprepared to process. As a result, saving the typical “teen parenting” strategies for thirteen-year-olds is now years too late.

Urgent advice for parents of teens: 

Dr. John Duffy’s parenting book is a new and necessary guide because it addresses everything we need to know about our kids’ rapidly changing world, and provides manageable solutions for parents, issue-by-issue. Dr. Duffy, a nationally recognized expert in parenting for nearly twenty-five years, wrote this book as a guide for parents raising children who are growing up too quickly and, as a result, dealing with unresolved adolescent issues that can lead to anxiety and depression.

Understand the unprecedented psychological suffering in our young people: 

A shift has taken place in how and when children develop socially, emotionally and intellectually. Because of the exposure they face, kids are emotionally overwhelmed at a young age, and therefore, are often continuing to search for a sense of self well into their twenties. Therefore, the more clearly and fully we understand their challenges, the more prepared we will be to help them find their footing. Finally, Dr. Duffy also highlights the good that comes with these challenges, such as the sense of empathy and justice instilled in teenagers starting at a young age. 

Readers of Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety will: