What's the Deal With Teens and Time Management: A Parent's Guide to Helping Your Teen Succeed

By Order Out of Chaos
Price $9.99
Age 8-18 yrs.

Leslie Josel's instructive, wisdom-filled book is as reassuring as it is informative. It is also a remarkably entertaining read. In addition to demystifying many aspects of teen behavior around homework and study habits, its pages convey a variety of easy-to-implement methods (what Ms. Josel calls 'The Triple Ts' - tips, tools and techniques) for helping teens understand and implement time management skills. Parents learn how to create a Personal Homework Profile with which to better understand how their teen tackles homework, how to help their teen develop time sense and future awareness, how to help their teen pick an appropriate academic planner and plan time, and numerous other essential and potentially life-altering time management skills. This abundant guidance is made all the more fruitful by the author's talent for helping us fully absorb it. Her warm, empathetic introduction at the book's outset is akin to sitting down with a new old friend, one whose knowledge we increasingly hunger for even as we take it in. The benefits of doing so are many.