Is This Normal?: Understanding Teen Behaviour and How to Respond

Parents are brilliant - resourceful, loving, often winging it, and carrying more than they let on. Yet the teen years can feel unexpectedly destabilising. The child you know is changing, and the approaches that once worked may suddenly fall flat. Is This Normal? is written to steady parents through this phase. It treats parenting as a living, evolving process - not a one-size-fits-all rulebook - and recognises the daily dramas, shifting identities and big feelings of adolescence, for parents as well as teenagers. Inside you'll find: - Find Your Footing - steadying you before steadying them- The 12 Parenting Practices - everyday principles to live by- An A-Z of Parenting Teens - common challenges explored- When Should I Be Worried? - knowing when to seek help About the Author Lindsay James is an integrative CBT therapist and qualitative researcher with over twenty years of experience working with families. She works at the intersection of therapeutic insight, behavioural science and lived parenting experience to help parents navigate the realities of modern adolescence.