Globalization has given many of us unparalleled opportunities to work, travel, fall in love, and raise kids all over the world. But it’s made being a teen more complicated than ever. Imagine having to discover your identity and place in the world when you keep having to move communities, your parents are from different cultural or ethnic backgrounds, or you're exposed to multiple cultures daily.
How can we help these cross-cultural teens stay happy, healthy, and balanced particularly in a time of uncertainty and a global pandemic?
Raising Global Teens explores the hot topics that adolescents experience today: identity, social media, body image, puberty, drugs, stress, and sex, all in the context of our modern, mobile world. In this easy-to-read handbook, Dr Anisha provides answers to the common, if tough, questions from global teens and their parents. She combines real-world examples with practical solutions, drawing on the latest research, her own experience and that of the many cross-cultural teens she has worked with over the last 25 years. Raising Global Teens enables busy families, health providers, and educators build powerful tools to help today's adolescents thrive.
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Praise for Raising Global Teens
““A pediatrician offers advice on raising teens in the 21st century. In this debut parenting book, Abraham focuses on the experiences of children with varied cultural experiences … while also covering the fundamentals of stress, puberty, brain development, and education that apply to all teens …. A valuable primer for helping teens cope with adolescence.””
-Kirkus Reviews
““I highly, highly recommend this book to not only parents, but to all educators, social service professionals, medically related personnel, and anyone else who loves and works with this population. You will be glad you took the time to read it, I promise you!””
-Ruth E. Van Reken, Hon DLitt, Co-author, Third Culture Kids, 3rd ed., Co-founder, Families in Global Transition, www.figt.org
““This masterful work will enable you to build the resilience in your children that will prepare them to thrive in both good and challenging times.”
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-Dr Ken Ginsburg, author of Building Resilience in Children and Teens, and Raising Kids to Thrive, parentandteen.com
““Anisha uses her own international and multicultural life journey, plus her work as a pediatrician and educator, to shine a bright light on what it’s like to grow up cross-culturally.””
-Dr Cara Natterson, pediatrician and author of Decoding Boys and the Care and the Keeping of You series
““Dr Abraham has documented valuable insights and handy tips into an easy-to-read guide. The wisdom and expertise she gained not just from her professional training but also from being a cross-cultural teenager herself, will benefit many other parents and teenagers who are faced with a similar challenge.””
-Geeta Rao Gupta, Executive Director of the 3D Program for Girls and Women and Senior Fellow, UN Foundation, Former Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF
““At the heart of this warm, insightful and practical book on parenting adolescents in the 21st century is the reminder that adolescence is a time of grappling with identity. Deftly weaving her cross-cultural background with decades of experience as an adolescent doctor, Dr Abraham packages the universal challenges of adolescence into bite-sized pieces of parenting wisdom.””
-Susan Sawyer, MD, Chair of Adolescent Health, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne; President, International Association for Adolescent Health (IAAH.org)
““Full of illuminating stories, strategies, and resources, she has written a must-have resource for cross-cultural families and educators alike to help our children build resilience and develop the skills necessary for life in this globalized century.””
-Linda A. Janssen, author of The Emotionally Resilient Expat: Engage, Adapt and Thrive Across Cultures
““Dr. Anisha Abraham writes not only from first-hand, but also clinical experience, which she uses to provide incredible insight into what it takes to help raise global teens who will thrive in an ever-globalizing world – all with a compassionate and easy to follow approach.””
-Christopher O’Shaughnessy, International Speaker and author of Arrivals, Departures and the Adventures In-Between, www.chris-o.com
““At first glance, you might think this book is only for teens living outside their home country or whose parents have different cultural backgrounds. But in today’s globally complex and highly connected world, Dr. Abraham’s informed approach to parenting … has much broader relevance.”
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-Laura Jana, MD, Pediatrician and author of The Toddler Brain: Nurture the Skills Today That Will Shape Your Child’s Tomorrow
““Dr. Abraham has harnessed her personal and professional experience, capturing the essence and challenges faced by global families and she has given us a road map to acceptance and success.””
-Leslie R. Walker-Harding, MD, Chief Academic Officer, Seattle Children's Hospital and former President, Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM)
““If you want to learn how to navigate the unique challenges of raising a global teen, this book is for you. Dr. Anisha Abraham, a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist, engagingly discusses issues like sex, drugs, social media, and depression in a cross-cultural context and explains how to maintain your (and your teen’s) sanity in these difficult years.””
-Sandeep Jauhar, New York Times bestselling author of Heart: A History
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”Raising Global Teens has the essential information any parent needs who is raising children in today’s increasingly complex international world.””
-Rosalind Wiseman, co-founder of Cultures of Dignity and author of Queen Bees and Wannabes