Surviving (Your Child's) Adolescence

Welcome to the hard half of parenting.

by Carl Pickhardt, Ph.D.

Arguing with your adolescent.

By Carl E. Pickhardt, Ph.D. on August 23, 2009 in Surviving (Your Child's) Adolescence

Adolescence is a disputatious age. Dispute about what? For the adolescent, any issue will often do when the point of the dispute is argument itself. Read More

This can be endlessly discussed ..

Submitted by Crotched on September 2, 2009 - 8:37am.

It can be debated endlessly ..

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Arguments are forever for those who love to argue.

Submitted by Carl E. Pickhardt, Ph.D. on September 2, 2009 - 9:04am.

THE ARGUMENT

"The argument
Is ended,
No further
Need be said.

The wound
Cannot be mended,
The issue
Is quite dead.

If you believe
The case to be
Exactly
As you stated,

Then you and I
May both feel free
To let it lie,
Abated.

If you consider
All is well,
If you are satisfied

That there is nothing
Else to tell,
Or add on either side:

Then won't you say
You're through,
You're no more tired
Than I

Who fully understands
Your view
And only wonders
Why?"

Page 24,from: FROM CELL TO SOCIETY
C. E. Pickhardt
1965 Houghton Mifflin Co,
2001 iUniverse

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No teme

Submitted by Polprav on October 11, 2009 - 2:17pm.

Hello from Russia

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Thanks

Submitted by Carl E. Pickhardt, Ph.D. on October 11, 2009 - 2:21pm.

Thanks for your interest from so far away!

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Carl Pickhardt, Ph.D., is a psychologist in Austin, Texas. His most recent books are: The Connected Father, The Future of Your Only Child, and Stop Screaming.

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