Through Darkest Adolescence, With Tongue in Cheek and Pen in Checkbook

by Richard Armour

Excerpt from Through Darkest Adolescence

I, too, was troubled by the first stirrings of sex, though not until I was about fourteen. Up to that time I thought there was no difference between boys and girls except that boys could run faster and throw a ball farther. Also, girls were always putting their hands up in class, and not just when they wanted to leave the room. Nowadays boys begin getting ideas about girls when they are ten or eleven, and by the age I was starting to catch on they are already going steady.

Genres: Humor, Nonfiction

180 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1963

About the author

Richard Armour, a college professor of English who specialized in Chaucer and the English Romantic poets, was best known as a prolific author of light verse and wacky parodies of academic scholarship. He was a professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont from 1945 to 1966.

Armour was raised in Pomona, California, where his father owned a drugstore. He graduated from Pomona College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, then obtained his master's and Ph.D. in English literature at Harvard. He was a Harvard research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum library in London.

Reviews

[Stacey Knueppel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is hilarious and a must read for every parent. This book helps you understand your kids and keep your sense of humor so you don't want to kill them when they are in their tween years.

[Moonkiszt · Rating 5 out of 5]

RE: Teenagers.

[James Swenson · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you think you'd enjoy a collection of humorous essays from 1963, on the challenges of raising teenagers, this book will not let you down.