Help Yourself: Real-life Advice for Real-life Challenges Facing Teenagers
May 2007 · Penguin UK
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'The bottom line: Your life's outcome is solely up to you. If you can get out of bed in the morning, go to the bathroom, get dressed and nuke something in the microwave without any help, then you are capable of doing, achieving and handling just about anything that life can throw at you. You can do this. You can live up to your potential. And at your age, frankly, I expect you to.' Straight-talking, unpatronising, inspirational advice from bestselling author Dave Pelzer. Before he became a teenager, Pelzer was subjected to horrific physical and mental abuse from his mother. During his teens the long road to recovery began and today Pelzer spends much of his working life talking to young adults in schools and foster care centres. Pelzer’s message is simple and powerful: identify problems, face them, think about where you want to be in life and never, ever give up on yourself. Being a teenager isn't easy in today's world, but as Pelzer says, it brings with it massive opportunities - and it's much more exciting than being an adult.
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April 2, 2016
So being from that background he is giving very normal and preachy advice... Why is he not reaching out to Children who are in that position he was in back then? Would this advice help those Children? Yis he addressing abusers and ordinary ppl when surely he should be about helping the worst suffering? Dave Pelzer has forgotten that it's all about that little boy he was- not him. So saying to ppl that any kid who had that sort of thing should automatically forgive when older as if predestined is appalling.
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Grace O'Hara
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December 29, 2012
Amazing and truly inspiring read! I would recommend it to anyone:)
About the author
Dave Pelzer is the international bestselling author of A Child Called 'It', The Lost Boy, A Man Named Dave and The Privilege of Youth. He travels throughout the world raising awareness about child abuse and prevention. In 1994 he received the Outstanding Young Persons of the World award.
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