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You Want to Do What?: Instant answers to your parenting dilemmas
Karen Sullivan
Aimed at parents of 9-16 year olds, this A-Z of questions and answers covers every conceivable dilemma – from what age you should give your child a mobile phone, to dealing with internet chat rooms.When can your child legally get a job? When can they baby-sit the kid next door? Tackling the trickiest problems head on, Karen Sullivan explains when it is safe, appropriate, necessary or even normal for children to do certain things. As your children enter their teenage years and want more independence, the questions multiply.You Want to Do What? offers reliable guidance and information instantly. Karen draws on developmental, advisory, legal and statistical information to set out the facts and offer a reasoned solution. Her informed, no-nonsense, common sense approach to parenting allows you to make decisions quickly and with confidence. And if you need to say 'no' to your teenager, You Want to Do What? gives you the best reasons to explain why.
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For Cole and Luke, my teenagers
Contents
Cover (#u6fc276eb-0ebd-57ff-8404-2171e43ce005)
Title Page (#ubf63193f-b1bf-5377-9471-fc61a1821ce9)
Copyright (#ulink_e18b8639-1708-5fe1-9333-47a577489ddc)
Dedication (#ulink_21766637-f551-5bb5-9723-dcdd8e653075)
Introduction (#ulink_a64ffc83-b7b7-5d55-bb9e-de63ef9158e8)
Abortion (#ulink_b78bee8b-5e33-500e-9b5e-ac45a1726ce2)
Alcohol (#ulink_136fc846-177b-5a7c-987c-95efb3d88b04)
Armed forces (#ulink_973c8814-f0c0-51e4-adaf-289c455aaa7c)
Babysitting (#ulink_9e0b3897-0c1c-56bb-9139-00e7cb52de38)
Bedrooms
Bedtime
Bicycles
Birth control
Books
Bras
Bullying
Calculators
Cars
Clothes
Communication
Community service
Computers
Cooking
Crime
Curfews
Debt
Drugs
Ears
Employment
Entertainment
Exams
Exercise
Eyes
Family
Fizzy drinks
Food and drink
Friends
Gambling
Gap year
Growth
Hair
Health
Homework
Household chores
Independence
Languages
Leaving home
Leisure
Lost property
Magazines
Make-up
Marriage
Masturbation
Menstruation
Mental health
Mobile phones
Money
Morals
Music
Motorcycles
Mouth guards
Name change
Organisation
Orthodontics
Parties
Passports
Peers
Personal hygiene
Pocket money
Pornography
Privacy
Puberty
Relationships
Religion
School
Self-harm
Sex
Sexuality
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)