What We Can't Tell You: Teenagers Talk to the Adults in Their Lives

"What We Can't Tell You : Teenagers Talk to the Adults in Their Lives" is a great book! I was sent a proof to read and found that the information it holds is key to improving communication between parents and their children.

I was sent a proof copy of this book. I was not really going to read it until my mother read it and said something to me. I found the title to be most interesting and once I had read it, I found the book to be very helpful. I never really knew there were other kids out there like me. It opened a lot of topics for me and my parents to discuss. This book hit on topics that we go though and topics that are not an issue for us. I would suggest if you have teenagers in the house that you read this. For it was help in ways that it said it would be and in ways unstated. I found it helpful just to know that there are other kids going through the same things I am. But also that I have it pretty good compared to others.

I was sent a proof copy of this book for review. At first I was skeptical because most of the teenagers interviewed seem to have lived a life far different from my children. We are part of the "minority" of single nuclear unbroken families. Our children are not plagued by a lot of the problems described in this book. However, two of my teenagers were captivated by the title of the book when they saw me reading it, and proceeded to tell me what they thought I should know about their thinking. The book itself was not relevant to our lives, but it did, as promised, start a conversation between myself and my teens that was enlightening and made for a wonderful evening together. Helpfulness aside, it was well-written and very interesting to read even without the conversational side-effects.