Adolescent Owner's Manual

Adolescents do the very things they don’t want to do and don’t do what they want to do. In all this confusion, parents don’t realize that adolescents, like thermometers, tend to adopt the behavior of the environment in which they find themselves: in ‘cool’ environments, they become ‘cool’, and in ‘hot’ environments, they become ‘hot ’ . This book highlights the Thermometer Effect that the family, the school, the peers, the community and media is having on the adolescents’ lives.