Nobody understands me, is about the adolescent growing up in modern India. The title echoes the refrain of the present generation of youth in the metropolitan cities amid innumerable influences from allover the world.
Both parents working, career aspirations, the media and its influence all seem to contribute to this longing to be understood.
Dr. Yamuna unravels the mind of the adolescent through a series of case studies. She covers the whole gamut of the growth structure of the teenager, from adjusting to physical changes to battling with emotional upheavals. The importance of good parenting cannot be overemphasised in helping the teenager evolve into a well balanced adult. There is a chapter to parenting adolescents. She also addresses problems that arise in adolescent sex and sexuality and health concerns.
Solutions
The author also suggests how parents and teachers can help in counselling and thereby reduce the stress and trauma of the child. Understanding, being open to the needs of the age, willingness to listen to their point of view, solving problems through objective dialogue and not through coercion or dogmatic assertion of parental authority is the key to enjoying adolescent parenting.
Supporting her documentation is a chapter on life skills that the child must be equipped with to face the problems faced and resolve them intelligently without getting hurt.
NOBODY UNDERSTANDS ME
by Dr. S.Yamuna,
Wisdom Tree
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