How to navigate painlessly through the period of anger between 12 and 17 years old
He is thoughtless, takes risks, has no friends, is addicted to video games, drinks, smokes, his room is a complete mess. He likes to provoke. He lacks motivation... Boys, girls, they all struggle to control their emotional reactions during adolescence. And, to tell the truth, we as parents often lose control too! We would readily blame them for doing it on purpose to annoy us. They have a talent for breaking us down...
But adolescence is a period of major processes happening in the brain. Thinking, memory skills, artistic creation make leaps forward, while other areas such as empathy, expectation, organization, risk assessment are still... a mess. The teenager is an engine spinning at an erratic speed, a hypersensitive accelerator with non-existent brakes!
With "We don't understand each other anymore!" we discover what is happening in the minds and bodies of our teenagers and explore our parental abilities to react with sensitivity, love, and empathy.
Isabelle Filliozat, psychotherapist, author, and Anouk Dubois, illustrator are the creators of the best-sellers "I Tried Everything!" and "Not Everything is Lost!".