Osvaldo Poli - L’adolescenza non è una malattia

Osvaldo Poli, psychologist and author, focuses primarily on counseling and training for parents

and couples.

Among the topics he most frequently addresses are: firmness in education, awareness of one's own character weaknesses, emotional immaturity, teaching gratitude, children's duties towards

their parents, the positive aspects of adolescence, the need for masculine education, and the effects

of a lack of paternal educational vision on raising children. Osvaldo Poli, psychologist and

author, focuses primarily on counseling and training for parents and couples.

Adolescence is not an illness that should bring with it feelings of guilt, yelling, and suffering for parents and

children, but a wonderful time in life in which children can mature and learn to no longer be

conditioned by their character. It is a time that requires a rapid update of the parenting

software; the time to break the protective bubble in which one would like children to live. Being

parents of a teenager means accepting the impossibility of sparing children the effort of

growing up and telling them: "I won't save you from difficulties, but I will help you overcome them."

This show, born from meetings with fathers and mothers struggling in their roles as educators—often

tired, disappointed, in crisis, or struggling with unruly and rebellious children—is a practical and reliable guide for dealing with

one of the most important moments in the lives of parents and children.