Being a teenager is tough; being a parent of a teenager is even tougher! This book offers insight into the biological and emotional changes affecting youngsters and offers advice to worried parents teachers and teenagers. Topics include: smoking drugssex eating disordersthe importance of a father's involvement in a child's development handling teenage conflict bipolar self-harming and how the teenage brain develops. It also offers an explanation as to why young people take more risks than their parents. It is written by a very experienced headteacher who is himself a parent of two teenagers.