Following his bestselling An Intelligent Person's Guide to Education,
the former Head Master of Eton, Tony Little continues to widen his
perspective in Adolescence: How to Survive It. Addressing parents and
educators as well as teenagers, he covers issues much broader than just
schooling and tries to break down the barriers between teachers and
parents and to tackle the habitual anxieties of parents about their
children right through from first days in primary schools to last days
in secondary schools. To accomplish this, Little has enlisted the help
of Herb Etkin, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, reprising the form
of John Cleese and Dr Robin Skinner's celebrated book Families and How
to Survive Them.
Adolescence: How to Survive It covers questions on adolescence such as
What is it?, Who is affected?, What do the stages of development look
like? and When does an adolescent require outside help?. The first part
of the book sets adolescence in context, before Little and Etkin engage
in a series of questions-and-answers to tackle key issues. The final
part of the book is a manual for parents, teachers, and teenagers.
With his previous book, the public was astonished by the progressive
liberal and innovative views of a headmaster of Eton, allegedly the
bastion of privilege and elitism. Now Tony Little and Herb Etkin impart
more wisdom in a book which is as anxious to deal with parents' issues
as with those of educators.
