First words

I guess my first plunge into the blogosphere ought to be some sort of introduction. Next Generation Publishing was started in 2005 by three people: me, Gill Rands and Daniel Smith. We'd worked in publishing together variously during the previous twelve years or so, and were keen to start something of our own. Also, we were all the parents of teenagers which helped support our view that such parents are a neglected audience.


You don't stop being a parent just because your child reaches 13, but there's relatively little out there to help the parents of adolescents achieve their own approach to negotiating their child's teenage years. So we started Next Generation magazine, designed to help parents coach and support their teenager through the decisions and choices encountered during adolescence. Here we are back in May this year, raising a glass to the first issue of the magazine (L to R: Dr Gill Rands, me, Daniel Smith).




Next Generation doesn't try to tell parents what to do, and it has no agenda other than to give parents information. The choices made within families are none of our business. But we do care that parents have the information and resources to develop their own approach to living with someone who is no longer a child who can simply be instructed, but is instead a growing individual with whom choices about life have to be negotiated again and again as they move towards becoming an adult member of the family.