Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence
- ISBN-10
- 0544279778
- ISBN-13
- 9780544279773
- Series
- Age of Opportunity
- Category
- Family & Relationships
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-09-09
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Laurence D. Steinberg
Description
A leading expert on adolescence cites new research and describes how to raise happy, successful kids by helping parents navigate this challenging, but developmentally crucial, time through strategies that instill self-control during the teenage years. 25,000 first printing.
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- 2014-09-09
- 272 pages
- Ebook
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- 2001
- 291 pages
- Paperback
- Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company
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