Q&A about living with teenagers: Post questions to Suzanne Franks, author of 'Get Out Of My Life' - ANSWERS BACK

[RachelMumsnet]

We’re running a Q&A this week with Suzanne Franks, co-author of the appropriately titled Get Out Of My Life But First Take Me and Alex Into Town.

The book was first published in 2008 and has since become the most recommended book for parents of teenagers. The new updated edition features advice on social media, online threads as well as looking at all the difficult issues of bringing up teenagers; school, sex, drugs and more. Get Out of My Life uses true-to-life situations to illustrate important points which give parents the vital information they need to understand, love and survive today’s teens.

Post your questions to Suzanne this week, before 10am Monday 19 January and we’ll upload her answers to your questions on January 26.

More about the authors:
Suzanne Franks was a BBC TV producer for many years and is now an academic, author and journalist. She has written many books including, Having None of It: Women, Men and the Future of Work. She lives in London and has three children, one of whom is still a teenager.
?Tony Wolf, Ph.D., is a practising clinical psychologist who has worked with children and adolescents for over thirty years. He lives in Suffield, Connecticut.

This Q&A is sponsored by Profile Books

I thought you were talking about my son, he says he doesn't want to go to school because they are not teaching anything he is interested in learning, he is very intelligent & highly articulate, I think he should be a lawyer, i am very intelligent, articulate and reasonable & he can argue me to a standstill. He decided school was not for him so he simply stopped doing assignments, homework and participating in class He prefers to stay up all night playing games. I take the games etc away he doesn't care he will lay on his bed and stare at the ceiling. He is a good kid,doesn't smoke, drink, use drugs, wander the streets etc, when he is not at school he is at home, he never goes anywhere, just talks to his mates on skype and plays games with them, I have sent him to live with his dad for a few months. I don't know what else to do .