In New Book, Holding On While Letting Go, Learn How To Parent Adolescents With The Power Of Understanding

On The Table Read, “the best book magazine in the UK“, Carl Pickhardt has released new book, Holding On While Letting Go: Parenting Your Child Through the Four Freedoms of Adolescence, to help parents of teenagers.

Holding On While Letting Go: Parenting Your Child Through the Four Freedoms of Adolescence

Psychology Today parenting expert Dr. Carl Pickhardt has released Holding On While Letting Go: Parenting Your Child Through the Four Freedoms of Adolescence, to help keep parents ahead of the curve when it comes to understanding the stages of adolescence.

Offering a toolkit of ideas, Holding On While Letting Go: Parenting Your Child Through the Four Freedoms of Adolescence has different ways parents can think about what is happening, why it is happening, and how they might want to respond. Dr. Pickhardt believes each successive push for freedom, both parents and teens need to learn how to do less holding on to each other while doing more letting go. Readers will learn the way with compassion, experience and time-tested guidance.

“When parents choose to have a child, they have agreed to have an adolescent,” said Dr. Pickhardt. “So effective parenting partly depends on being able to anticipate common teenage changes.”

Four Unfolding Freedoms

Dr. Pickhardt shares four unfolding freedoms and provides tips to help parents navigate these challenging times. 

The four unfolding freedoms include:

1. Freedom from rejection of childhood, around the late elementary school years, when they want to stop acting and being treated as children. 
2. Freedom of association with peers, around the middle school years, when they want to form a second family of friends. 
3. Freedom for older experimentation, around the high school years, when they want to try more grown-up activities. 
4. Freedom to claim emancipation, around the college age years, when they decide to become their own ruling authority. 

Dr. Carl Pickhardt

“Counseling with many families over many years, I believe there is a continuing need for parents to be informed about common changes that adolescence brings for the teenager and for themselves,” said Dr. Pickhardt. “I hope this book serves that purpose.” 

Carl Pickhardt, Ph.D., is a noted psychologist, speaker and parenting expert, now retired from private counseling practice. He received his B.A. and M.Ed. from Harvard, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the American and Texas Psychological Associations.

He writes a popular parenting advice column for Psychology Today and has written some of the most practical and helpful books about important parenting issues, including: The Connected Father, Stop the Screaming, The Future of Your Only Child and Why Good Kids Act Cruel.

A prolific author, he continues to write three distinct kinds of books: illustrated psychology, coming of age fiction and nonfiction parenting advice. Holding On While Letting Go is his 17th parenting book.

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For a complete list of his books, see his website:  http://www.carlpickhardt.com/  

Holding On While Letting Go: Parenting Your Child Through the Four Freedoms of Adolescence
Publisher: HCI Books
Release Date: October 4, 2022
ISBN-10: 0757324231
ISBN-13: 9780757324239
Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Available on Amazon.com

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