Teen Success Handbook

During the teen years, everything in a young person's life can go off the charts--responsibilities, parental expectation, homework, social distractions and hormone levels. The need to fit in competes with the desire to stand out. Implausible cockiness masks relentless self-doubt. To be cool, teenagers have to be successful on their own terms, but do they really know what that means? Not often.

This straightforward, delightfully illustrated, fully reproducible handbook gets teenagers to stop and focus for a few minutes at a time on their own development. Enjoyable activities ask them to look at who they are, what they want to be (and be like), their dreams, aspirations and interests. It encourages them to take stock of their own "developmental assets," observe other people to find out what works and doesn't work in life, and learn important intrapersonal and interpersonal skills.

Ages 12-18