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"Mom, I Hate My Life!": Becoming Your Daughter's Ally Through the Emotional Ups and Downs of Adolescence (A Hand-in-Hand Book) | 
| Author: Sharon Hersh
Publisher: Shaw Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 150164
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0877880239
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.8431
EAN: 9780877880233
ASIN: 0877880239
Publication Date: April 20, 2004
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Product Description
“I don’t know why my daughter is so angry. She yells at me all the time!”
“Our daughter comes home, goes straight to her room, turns on her CD player and won’t talk to anyone–especially me.”
“The emotional ups and downs of our daughter’s life make us all feel like we’re on a roller coaster.”
Navigating an adolescent daughter’s emotional life is one of a mom’s toughest challenges. A teenage girl’s volatile emotions can seemingly toss her–and you–like a hurricane. When a scary external world and a turbulent internal world collide, the result is sometimes overwhelming and confusing. What can you do to protect your relationship with your daughter, guide her through this chaotic time, and assure her you are truly on her side?
Your Adolescent Daughter’s Struggles Can Help Her–and You–to Grow and Thrive.
The good news is you are equipped with the most powerful resource available for maintaining and developing connection with your daughter: a mother’s heart. Learn how you can use hand-in-hand mothering skills to become the ally your daughter needs–parenting out of love, not fear–and find out how you both can experience dramatic, life-changing growth in the process.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 I rarely go out of my way to leave a review January 16, 2008
but I had to - this book was so easy to read and it spoke to me as a person - as a a mother. It was a book that spoke to my heart. I'm already using some of the techniques learned in the book and my homelife is becoming less quarelsome - less world war 3 like. Thank you Sharon!
 I like this book because it's NOT pop-psych mush September 1, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm a clinical mental health therapist who works with teens, and I have bought many copies of this book on Amazon to loan and give away to patients' families. This is easily one of my all-time favorite books for parents of teen girls, right up there with the works of Mary Piper. I've found that this is one of the more sensible and helpful books I've used with families, and some of my teen patients ask to read it (so they can keep tabs on what I'm asking their moms to read, maybe?). Anyway, my teen patients agree that this book is dead-on in its descriptions of depression, body image feelings, and conflicted mother-daughter relationships. The chapter on cutting and self-injury is particularly well-done.
I deducted one star because of the book's title: "MOM, I hate my life." Dads are barely mentioned, and this book presents this material as if it is ONLY relevant to a mother's understanding of a daughter. Ever notice how often books, articles, TV commercials, etc. simply assume that only MOTHERS are connected to their kids? As a male therapist and father of two, there is not one thing in this book that isn't equally applicable to an involved and struggling father. But a lot of great information is politely declined by the fathers I work with, simply because of the off-putting title. Unfortunately, Sharon Hersh's entire "line" of books use the "Mom..." titling gimmick, and the only prominent book for Dads and daughters (literally, "Dads and Daughters") is geared toward fathers of pre-teen girls.
Consider this a plea for better publications that offer clinically-valid tips for fathers AND mothers of teen girls.
I found this book to be less "preachy" (in a religious sense) than some of the author's other books; while a spiritual foundation is apparent, it doesn't feel like a "Dr. Dobson" evangelical appeal to regressive traditions. On the contrary, Sharon Hersh has some very progressive and well-informed ideas, soundly based in clinical research and her own experience as a psychotherapist.
Of all the books I loan to parents, this is the single one which is least often returned (because they like it), or the book that parents most frequently track down and buy for themselves.
 pop psychology mush November 5, 2005
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I got this book hoping it would be helpful. It was very heavy on the side of psychology, which is of very little help in parenting or life. If a reader feels the field of psychology is worth while, they will probably find this book to be of use. While there were some good points they were few and far between. While readers of books can eat the meat and spit out the bones, this was something like trying to eat tilapia.
DAD'S CAN READ THIS TOO! September 10, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a marvelous parenting book - for moms and dads.
And as a father of sons I want to also understand the psyche of young women that ultimately will enter my world through my boys. Thank you Sharon for an insightful, encouraging book!
I give this to all of my friends May 18, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I loved this book. I have read practically every book that has been written on parenting teenaged daughters and this one is far and away the best. It is hopeful, helpful and realistic. I buy it for all of my friends with teenaged daughters.
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