Synopses & Reviews
Being a teenage girl is hard. Admit it-frequently it's downright terrible. They are constantly bombarded with suggestions about how to best live their lives from everyone they know. It becomes a challenge just to know whose suggestions to follow and whom to ignore. Their parents and teachers are "too old" to understand them, and friends can be just as confused as they are. Teens are often tempted to turn to celebrities who, unfortunately, are only asked about fashion, weight loss, and "how to get the guy."
Life Lessons for the Teenage Girl : Quotes, Inspiration, and Advice for Women by Women provides valuable and entertaining advice from women who have attained success in business, politics, sports, and entertainment. Their goal in offering advice is to spare teenage girls some of the challenges and frustrations they may have experienced themselves. If the struggle can't be avoided, teens can at least gain comfort in the knowledge that they are not alone in their experience. Techniques and exercises are provided to help teenage girls survive and thrive beyond their teenage years.
Is Life Lessons for the Teenage Girl
for teenage girls only? Heck no! Everyone can be educated and entertained by the insights these women dispense. All can benefit from learning new strategies to manage life's difficulties. Find out who stayed serious and who couldn't help
Synopsis
Teenage girls don't know where to turn for guidance and support and struggle to trust the adults in their lives-but having famous and/or successful women offer wisdom and insight makes it more tolerable for them to hear.
Synopsis
Life Lessons for the Teenage Girl : Quotes, Inspiration, and Advice for Women by Women provides valuable and entertaining advice to adolescent girls from women who have attained success in business, politics, sports, and entertainment. These are women teen girls can look up to as role models. Some are well known to today's teens, while others are women from whom they could still learn much. The goal is to spare the reader some of the challenges and frustrations that the contributors themselves may have faced, and if the reader cannot be spared, she can at least gain comfort in the knowledge that she is not alone in the experience. The author draws upon her education and experience as a clinical psychologist to explore and examine the individual contributions. By doing so, she offers insight into mental health exercises and coping mechanisms girls can utilize to survive and thrive beyond their teen years.
About the Author
Kelly Lyttle Tonelli is a clinical psychologist working in private practice with patients who are experiencing life transitions, many of whom are teenage girls. She happily relocated from Michigan to Southern California to attend Pepperdine University and fell in love with the sunshine. She spent time working and learning at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA) before going into private practice. Kelly divides her time between her practice, writing, spending time with her husband, and driving her daughter to dance class.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Self-Esteem
Maybe you really are good enough
Chapter 2 Relationships
Being with others and still liking yourself
Chapter 3 Goals 39
Deciding what the heck to do next and making it happen
Chapter 4 Instincts
Listening to that little voice that tells you what to do
Chapter 5 Career
Please don't tell me I have to live with my parents forever!
Chapter 6 Finances
What to do with all of your fabulous loot and how to avoid going broke
Chapter 7 Failure and Rejection
Ouch, that hurts! Now what?
Chapter 8 Finding Your Moral Compass
You have to believe in something (but you get to pick)
Chapter 9 The Future
What the heck do I do now?
Conclusion
About the Author
Index