Teenagers are adults under construction

A self help guide for teenagers and parents to transition between childhood and adulthood.

Learn how to navigate life through an ever changing environment. Know how to make better lifestyle choices. How to manage a crisis and change without dispare. Take control and responsibility for your destiny and enjoy the ride. Learn new lifeskills that will get you from childhood to adulthood successfully. Explore the art of being your own unique self and live your best life ever. Learn how to love trust and respect yourself. How to enjoy growing up and working at something you are good at. Understanding the way life, people and your own mind works. How to create meaningfull relationships and make your dreams come true. How to be free and successful in relationships. Learn about sex, relationships and identifying the right people to spend your life with. Without my son, Marc, who I love dearly, there will be no book. For 20 years we grew individually and collectively as creators of our own destiny. It was a journey worth making with Marc by my side. Life is not about finding yourself. You are not lost. Your destiny is created by your attitude towards life and the lifestyle choices you make every day of your life. Focus on what is important and don't sweat the small stuff.

Henriëtta Potgieter is a retired Project Manager who produced many educational TV pragrams for many years. In her quest to be a better mother to Marc, Henriëtta discovered that she was not only clueless as a parent but that her son's future happiness depended on the example she lived. By improving her own parenting skills and lifestyle choices she managed to forge a special bond with Marc. By loving, trusting and respecting herself, Henriëtta helped Marc to appreciate his own unique talents and to love, trust and respect himself. Developing Marc's skills in being a healthy, kind, and self confident young man. Marc was 10 years old when they started on this journey and he needed a better mother. By sharing her thoughts and apologising to Marc for her past mistakes they move closer to each other as they both matured as adults. For the past 20 years Henriëtta and Marc researched and studied various subjects to make better lifestyle choices. By sharing their experiences and opinions Marc and Henrietta managed to produce a hands on self help guide on how to go about finding pleasure in being comfortable and happy in your own skin. How to live a purpose driven and meaningful life. Hopeing that teenagers and their parents will benefit from this opportunity to improve their own quality of life. How to embrace changes and crisis as wake up calls. To learn essential life skills to successfully launch as mature adults. By applying our right to choose how we live our lives we can learn to love, trust and respect ourselves. We don't have to find ourselves, we have to create ourselves.