Adolescence is the period of transition between childhood and adulthood. Our science-backed and evidence-based The Breakthrough Years (Ellen Galinsky) is the essential guide to adolescence that demystifies the journey of adolescence, bridging the gap between parents’ fears and teenagers’ needs and Ask the Children, Youth Voices Research series provides how our children feel about their working parents.
Our Adolescent work and Ellen Galinsky’s book, The Breakthrough Years, challenges assumptions about teenagers, offering new ways for parents to understand and interact with them.
Galinsky’s framework and mindset turn conflicts into problem-solving opportunities, encourage positive risk-taking, and promote essential skills for success.
This book recasts adolescence as a time of possibility, offering breakthrough opportunities for connection between teens and adults.
Identifies Five Basic Needs—such as belonging, developing competence, and building an identity—and shows how we can meet these needs in positive ways;
Presents Five Life Skills based on executive functions of the brain that are developing rapidly during adolescence like setting goals and strategies, perspective taking, problem-solving, and taking on challenges, and shows how we can promote them;
Introduces a new mindset, Possibilities Mindset, and Shared Solutions, a problem-solving process that parents and teachers can use to help create solutions to adolescent’s challenging problems.
Ask the Children
The Breakthrough Study That Reveals How to Succeed at Work and Parenting
The first comprehensive study asking children and their mothers and fathers for their family views on work and family life offers dozens of proven strategies busy families can use to feel more successful at work and at home. Noted work-family researcher Ellen Galinsky overtunes accepted thinking on quality vs. quantity time and many other guilt-inducing “myths”, reveals children’s one greatest wish for changing how work affects their parents’ lives, shares relationship stories of how families stay close, and outlines a brilliant new set of operating principles to navigate work-family challenges, including:
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