John Duffy has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is The Available Parent.
The Available Parent
Summary
We have a tendency today to over-parent, micromanage, and underappreciate our adolescents. Dr. John Duffy's The Available Parent is a revolutionary approach to taking care of teens and tweens. Teenagers are often left feeling unheard and misunderstood, and parents are left feeling bewildered by the changes in their child at adolescence and by their sudden lack of effectiveness as parents. The parent has become unavailable, the teen responds in kind, and a negative, often destructive cycle of communication begins. The available parent of a teenager is open to discussion, offering advice and solutions but not insisting on them. He allows his child to make some mistakes, setting limits, primarily where health and safety are concerned. He never lectures - he is available but not controlling. He is neither cruel nor dismissive, ever. The available parent is fun and funny and can bring levity to the most stressful situation. All of that is to say, there are no conditions to his availability - it is absolute.
©2014 John Duffy (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Mirrorland: Journey into the Astral Realms
Summary
Hi and welcome to a collection of my musings. From inspirations to poetry. From short stories to prose. Well, is it all quiet? Are you ready to enter my soul's panorama and let your imagination run riot? Do you have your treats at hand before we embark surreptitiously to newer lands? Mythical worlds of hope, inspirations, and spiritual peace. Shall we venture into newer realms like unwanted thieves? Are you ready, my silent friend with the bright eyes unseen? Are you ready to walk freely within my dreams? To travel to distant lands of in-between? Within infinities surreal gardens we meet, eternal souls on a slow path to salvation's beach. Welcome to my biography of inspired thoughts, reflections of spirituality, and absolutely above all, poignant words of freedom. Are you ready to take a walk? To listen as my voice echoes within and quietly talks? Let's hold hands and visit lands of innermost thoughts. As we traverse the universe like ancient Argonauts. Let me light up your innermost mind. As we slowly devour and share our time. Are you ready? Welcome to newer landscapes and horizons. We who walk or sit within the shadows and lights. We who craft through daylight or past midnight. We who serenade the viewer's eyes with literary delights. We who beseech the unknown for a narrator's insight. We shall live forever in someone's hindsight. If they read and remember. If they remember our words and absorb our splendor. Who's to say when our light extinguishes, we won't just simply fade away? Who says we won't live in being heard but just on another day? We who walk within the shadows and light. We who craft between daylight and past midnight. We who strive to share our visual sights, we shall live forever. It's why we share our creative spotlight. I just had to share that first, as since you are reading this, I have been reborn again. Thanks and it's how we endure. Now to some questions and some engaging introspection. Shall we proceed?
©2017 John Duffy (P)2018 John Duffy
Black Water
Summary
Based on National Book Award-winner Joyce Carol Oates' novella about the Chappaquiddick scandal, this tragic and beautiful new opera enthralls as a handsome Senator uses power to enchant, seduce, and carelessly destroy.
©1998 Joyce Carol Oates (P)1998 L.A. Theatre Works
The Available Parent: Radical Optimism for Raising Teens and Tweens
Summary
The available parent of a tween/teenager is open to discussion, offers advice and problem-solving (but doesn't insist on it). She allows her child to make some mistakes, sets limits (primarily where health and safety are concerned), never lectures, is available but not controlling. The available parent is self-aware, keeps her own emotions in check when dealing with her teen, is unconditionally loving and accepting, open to new and different ways of thinking, neither cruel nor dismissive - ever. The available parent is fun and funny, brings levity to the most stressful situation, and her availability is absolute. The available parent fosters an extraordinary teenager. Dr. John Duffy, a clinical psychologist with a thriving private practice, and whose highly satisfied corporate clients include Sears, Allstate, General Electric, Household Financial, Exxon Mobil, Accenture, Bank of America and Hewitt Associates, can show you how to become one, and breathe easier as a 13th birthday approaches.
©2011 Cleis Press (P)2011 Cleis Press