Moet dit altyd ’n nagmerrie wees om tieners groot te maak? Is daar ’n regte manier om dit te doen? Hoe kom ons deur hierdie moeilike tydperk sodat ons kan verseker dat ons kinders op die regte pad na volwassenheid kom?

Hierdie boek is ’n praktiese en insiggewende gids oor hoe ouers die uitdagings kan hanteer van hierdie komplekse fase in hulle en hul kinders se lewens.

Ouers moet leer hoe om goeie rolmodelle te wees vir hul tienerkinders. Vind uit hoe om 100 belangrike kwessies te hanteer. Onder andere:

• Kommunikasie probleme
• Drank en dwelm misbruik
• Seks en verhoudings
• Slegte maniere en ongeskikte gedrag
• Pornografie
• Slegte prestasie op skool
• Bederfde kinders
• Eetversteurings Internet en selfone

Ultimate guide to family health is a guide for families when confronted with problems from any of the different stages of family members' lives. Issues covered in this guide include: preventative strategies, major health threats, general medical conditions, common children's health problems, common men's health problems, common women's health problems, first aid and trauma. The guide provides the reader with preventative tips, describes symptoms and suggests possible treatments.

Your health is your most valuable asset and determines your level of energy. More than longevity, it is a deciding factor in your happiness and success in all aspects of your life. This book gives women the knowledge to take charge and make informed decisions about prevention and treatment – everything your doctor would like you to know, but never has the time to tell you.

The Ultimate Guide to Women’s Health covers every aspect and every stage in a woman’s life:

• How your body changes, and best health options, at every stage from puberty through your productive years to menopause and beyond.
• Hormonal health, including all the contraception options; pregnancy, and HRT.
• Sexual wellbeing.
• Anti-ageing. Is deterioration inevitable?
• All investigations and procedures explained.
• Cosmetic surgery.

Today’s working woman needs to be Superwoman: frantically juggling the never-ending tasks that fill her day. But all this Busyness often comes at the sacrifice of personal time and needs, leading to Burnout: depletion of physical resources, deterioration in health, and frustration and resentment.

In this practical and down-to-earth book, Linda Friedland looks honestly and squarely at all the demands and challenges of today’s busy woman, and offers a way of coping with all these stresses, while avoiding the Burnout.

Her Seven Point Plan is a practical, workable approach to managing the stresses of modern existence. It offers solid, sensible advice on:

• maximising your physical strength and energy
• establishing what’s important
• organising your life
• not allowing time to control you
• filling yourself with enthusiasm, living with meaning
• actively pursuing contentment and satisfaction
• making peace with your life and making your life peaceful

In Self le die bekende mediese dokter, dr. Linda Friedland, 'n bloudruk voor aan vroue vir 'n buitengewone lewe. Die title leer lesers om beheer te neem oor ses essensiele aksie-areas in hul lewens, naamlik: Bemagtig: Neem die beheer oor jou eie lewe, jou uitkyk op die lewe, jou fisiese liggaam, jou selfbeeld, jou verhoudings, jou tyd en veral jou gesondheid. Omhels: Leer om jouself te versorg, in plaas daarvan om te verwag dat ander jou moet versorg. Eet: Kies die regte kos vir voeding, plesier en vertroosting. Oefen: Kies en hou vol met die regte oefening om goeie gesondheid te behou. Energie: Vind die korrekte balans van oefening, eet en stresverligting tegnieke wat vir jou werk. Verryk: Stel uitdagings aan jou geestelike spiere en laat dit groei. Om vroue te help om die beheer oor te neem oor hulle lewens, bevat die laaste hoofstuk van die titel opgedateerde inligting oor vroulike gesondheidsprobleme wat algemeen voorkom. Hierdie title is gepak met inligting oor alle aspekte van vrouens se gesondheid. Met gevallestudies van werklike lewenservarings in elke hoofstuk, vraelyste om jouself te toets en weeklikse "hoe om te" - planne om die beheer oor te neem oor elk van die ses areas, is die titel 'n praktiese gids tot selfverbetering.

In Self, Linda Friedland provides South African women with the means to live a more fulfilling life. With case studies of real-life experiences (including Dr Friedland's own), quizzes, weekly practical plans and a section on commonly encountered women's health problems, the book is an inspiring hands-on manual to self-improvement. The book puts women in charge of six essential action areas:

• Empower: Take charge of your own life, your perceptions, your physical body, your self-image, your relationships, your time and especially your health.

• Embrace: Learn to nurture yourself, instead of expecting nurturing from others.

• Eat: Choose the right food for nutrition, pleasure and comfort.

• Exercise: Choose and maintain the right exercise to maintain good health.

• Energise: Find the correct balance of exercise, eating and stress relief techniques that works for you.

• Enrich: Challenge and grow your spiritual muscle. The final section of the title contains up to date information on commonly encountered women's health problems.