The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen
by Robert Epstein
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This groundbreaking book argues that adolescence is an unnecessary period of life that people are better off without. Robert Epstein, former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today, shows that teen turmoil is caused by outmoded systems put into place a century ago which destroyed the continuum between childhood and adulthood. Where this continuum still exists in other countries, there is no adolescence. Isolated from adults, American teens learn everything they know from their media-dominated show more peers?! @the last people on earth they should be learning from,? says Epstein. Epstein explains that our teens are highly capable?in some ways more capable than adults?and argues strongly against ?infantilizing? young people. We must rediscover ?the adult in every teen,? he says, by giving young people adult authority and responsibility as soon as they can demonstrate readiness. This landmark book will change the thinking about teens for decades to come. show lessTags
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Epstein makes great points and must be given credit for speaking against the current paradigm. I found his solutions a bit weak but his analysis spot on.
All parents, and lawmakers, and teachers, and above all teens, should read this book. Taking sources from anthropology, history, sociology, medicine, current events and more, it makes a VERY convincing argument that most teens are to all intents adults and would act like adults if given the chance.
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Dr. Robert Epstein, distinguished researcher and former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today, offers a radical and groundbreaking formula for ending teen turmoil: Give teens ways to escape from the inane, media-dominated world of teen culture and get rid of the legal and social shackles that hold them back. If they can show they're ready, welcome show more them into the adult world. Written for parents, educators and teens themselves. Teen 2.0 will challenge everything you think you know about America's teenagersand offers a clear plan for turning all teens into happy, confident, responsible, successful adults. show less
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