Françoise Dolto used to say that the teenager is like the lobster during the time it changes its shell: exposed to all dangers and in need of constructing a new shell. To help teenagers complete this transformation, which is like a second birth, Fr. Dolto, her daughter C. Dolto-Tolitch, and C. Perseminier wrote this book. It is primarily addressed to you teenagers (you lobsters). But it can also be passed around the house, so that everyone - children, parents, young and old - can read it and benefit from it.