The Book Depository Under Pressure by Lisa Damour
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Description: Under Pressure : Paperback : Atlantic Books : 9781786493972 : : 04 Jun 2020 : From the author of Untangled comes the essential guide to how we can help our girls manage anxiety and stress - and flourish along their journey to adulthood. The Book Depository Under Pressure by Lisa Damour - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9781786493972
MPN: 9781786493972
GTIN: 9781786493972
Author: Mrs Piglet
Rating: 5
Review: The book is an interesting, illuminating and helpful book giving relevant useful information on anxiety and stress, so helpful these days to help us cope with the behaviour of our stressed out girls and to provide us parents with guidance in an easy read. This book is fabulous. Previously I bought Lisa Damour's Untangled which enabled me to reach out and help my troubled 12 year old. Again, fabulous and you will not be disappointed with either books.
Author: carb101
Rating: 4
Review: I think that Dr. Damour's first book "Untangled" is absolutely fantastic, and I have pulled it off my self several times a year since buying it. The chapter on romance and dating has been particularly helpful to me. I preordered "Under Pressure" and am so happy that I got it on the same day it was released. Thanks Amazon! Both of my daughers (19 and 16) have anxiety and both have had episodes of panic - many, many episodes in the case of the older daughter. For anxiety as severe as hers, this book was not especially useful, which is one reason for my 4 start review. That said, for every day - and occasional extreme - stress this book has great guidance. Dr. Damour divded the book into 1) Coming to Terms with Stress and Anxiety, 2) Girls at Home (that is stressors that are created or acted out in the family) 3) Girls Among Girls 4) Girls Among Boys 5) Girls at School and 6) Girls in the Culture. Each chapter was full of great ideas, and I highlighted a lot. I am in school studying for high school teaching certificate, and I found the chapter "Girls at School" to be helpful in thnking about my own girls and also thinking about how to make my future classroom less needlessly stressful. I also appreciate that Dr. Damour talks about advice she has given that she now thinks was dumb of her. As a mother parenting in the moment, I appreciate being reassured that even experts make lousy choices sometimes. So to the other reason I only gave the book 4 stars: I feel like it was stretched / padded in places. Dr. Damour likes to use true-to-life examples in her book, but in this text, much more than in "Untangled", some of those true life details are very, very extraneous. I can't find it now, but there were two paragraphs in which she set the stage for meeting up with a friend to discuss the friend's daughter. The setting the stage part described waiting in line at the cafeteria, getting their food, finding a table and then catching up *before* she actually gets to the point: the friend's concern about her daughter. Examples like this make me think that the editor should have been more free with the red pen. And, just so you're aware, although the book is 261 pages long, the actual book only goes to page 220. The remainder are the notes, recommended readings for adults and girls, and the index. My final take away: Absolutely buy this book, but for me it's not a 5 star book like "Untangled."
