The Gift of Teenagers Connect More, Worry Less

by Kelly, Rachel

• ISBN13: 9781804193167
• ISBN10: 180419316X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-07-15
• Publisher: Short Books

Summary

Learn to love your teenagers and count them as a blessing. Rachel Kelly successfully navigated this challenging stage with her five children and shares the lessons learned so other parents may benefit from this new and inspiring perspective.

In this authoritative book by an established mental health writer with advice from experts in the field, Rachel Kelly shares how bringing up her five children in an anxious age, and her work for ten years with young people in schools and at universities, has led to her own psychological growth. Raising resilient teenagers begins with becoming a more resilient - and better informed - parent, someone who has learned to manage their own emotions, become aware of their parenting style, and understand the world our teenagers are growing up in.

Thus armed, we can engage with our adolescents better and discover how they, and their brains, work (short answer: not always like us!). The book also offers psychologically helpful (and evidence-based) approaches for supporting our teenagers, from personal relationships to navigating social media. Whisper it, but it might even be a fun ride.

Author Biography

Rachel Kelly is a best selling writer, speaker, mental health advocate and former Times journalist. She has written five books sharing her experience of depression and evidence-based strategies that have helped her feel better - everything from cooking to poetry to mindfulness to exercise. She has spoken all over the world from Delhi to Sydney, America and across the UK. Her books are published in over 10 countries and she is an official ambassador for mental health charities Rethink Mental Illness, SANE and The Counselling Foundation. She is the mother of three boys and two girls, all now grown-up.

Her previous books include the Sunday Times best-selling memoir Black Rainbow (Yellow Kite/Hodder),Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness (S&S) ; The Happy Kitchen: Good Mood Food (S&S) ; Singing in the Rain: An Inspirational Workbook (Short Books), and, You'll Never Walk Alone: Poems for Life's Ups and Downs, published in 2022 by Yellow Kite.

Dr Carla Croft is a clinical psychologist who runs clinical psychology in four London hospitals and is a mother of two boys and a girl. This is her first book.