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| How to Really Love Your Teen | Campbell, D. Ross and Suggs, Rob | It's one of the most common parenting scenarios - parent and child are developing nicely, when the child crosses the mysterious threshold into the "teenage zone". Suddenly, the parents feel unable to fully relate to their teen - and the teen responds to the parents' uneasiness. In this best-selling book, Dr. Campbell helps parents understand the delicate dance between parents and their emerging teenagers. Learn how to create a solid, balanced approach for relating to your teen, how to communicate unconditional love, how to handle teenage anger, as well as your own, and how to help your teenager grow spiritually and intellectually. |
| The Five Love Languages of Teenagers | Chapman, Gary | Believe it or not, it's possible to make teenagers feel loved without embarrassing them in front of their friends. Dr. Gary Chapman will help you connect with them emotionally, on their terms. There's never been a more important time to tell them you love them, and no tool will be as effective as their love languages. |
| Parenting Teens with Love and Logic | Cline, Foster and Jim Fay | Our changing times require new approaches to parenting teens. Parenting experts Jim Fay and Foster W. Cline, M.D., help you address the pressing subjects faced by today’s teens like: drugs, alcohol, smoking, sex, peer pressure, what happens if they break the law and who pays the bill, violence in school and on the street. Give them the tools to face the choices of today's world. |
| On Becoming Teen Wise | Ezzo, Gary and Anne Marie | Co-authored by paediatrician Robert Bucknam, M.D. and Gary Ezzo. This book covers the teen years. The final book in the series helps parents to learn how to move past current struggles and start over with credibility, prevent teenage rebellion in the future, and determine how to build lasting parent-teen friendships starting today. The material in this book corresponds roughly to the video series "Reaching the Heart of Your Teen," or "Let the Children Come Along the Adolescent Way." |
| For Parents Only: Getting inside the head of your kid | Feldhahn, Shaunti and Rice, Lisa A. | This book takes you inside the minds of teens and preteens through the same innovative approach that seized national attention in previous best-selling books. It explores the results of a nationwide survey and personal interviews with more than 1,000 real-life teens and tweens to tackle those things parents often don't 'get' about their kids. You'll hear first-hand about the longings that drive your kids' seemingly illogical decisions, the truth behind those exasperating 'attitude problems', and what your children will tell you if they could trust you to truly listen. |
| The White Water Rafting Years | Grant, Ian and Cowan, John | The major life-task of an adolescent is to form their adult identity. If they are not able to experiment with that identity while learning from you, then they are likely to individuate in a negative way. Your kids come under pressure in their teens - peer pressure, sexual pressure, pressure to perform, the pressure of the future. You can be part of that pressure or you can help them cope with it. The White Water Rafting Years advises every parent to become a parent-coach - not an enemy to be conquered but a resource to be worked. "Difficult as it may seem," write Ian Grant and John Cowan, "remember teenagers need your love the most when they are at their most obnoxious." |
| The Anger Toolbox | Irving, Tricia & Smith, John Taylor | The Anger Toolbox offers New Zealand parents and carers lots of practical ideas to help manage and support children and teens through angry times. It includes information about why people get angry, what happens when we do, and ways to effectively manage anger. There is an extensive range of tools that many parents and carers have found useful. Every situation is unique, every child or young person is different. Try the ideas you think could work with your family. |
| Bringing Home the Prodigals | Parsons, Rob | Rob Parsons' message is for anyone who cares about prodigals. He urges us to be released from false guilt, to stop judging each other, and to remember that God, the perfect parent, has trouble with his children too. He challenges the Church to recognise the part it has played in creating prodigals and says, 'When our prodigals do come home, pray that they meet the father first and not the elder brother!' But this is not just for other people: 'We suddenly see that the dirty, tear stained face coming down the road is our face; and then we discover what, deep in our heart, we knew all along: we are the prodigal.' |
| Teenagers: What every parent has to know | Parsons, Rob | Author of the highly successful Sixty Minute series, Rob Parsons turns his attention to that very difficult period of adolescence - the teenage years. He explains how to cope with this often disruptive period in a family’s life and how to continue feeling close to your teenagers as they grow up and become increasingly independent. He gives clear and easy to follow advice making sure that you will not feel on your own and you will be able to make the most of your precious time with your children. |
| The Great Brain Robbery | Scott, Tom & Grice, Trevor | What everyone should know about teenagers and drugs... All children entering adolescence need to know there is no short-cut to happiness through chemistry. There is only a short-circuiting of the brain wiring that makes them, them. Every human brain is a miraculous tapestry, utterly unique to the weaver. When we tear this fragile tapestry we are damaging a one-off that can't be easily repaired. |
| Boundaries with Teens | Townsend, Dr. John | Relax! Your sanity will survive these rocky teenage years, and so will your teens - provided you set healthy boundaries that work to their benefit and yours. Boundaries with Teens will show you how. From bestselling author and counsellor Dr. John Townsend, here is the expert insight and guidance you need to help your teens take responsibility for their actions, attitudes, and emotions and gain a deeper appreciation and respect both for you and for themselves. |
| Spiritual Mentoring of Teens | White, Joe (ed) | The Parents' Guide to the Spiritual Mentoring of Teens is the complete resource you need to be prepared for spiritually leading your children during their teen years. Whether you're a married parent, a single parent, or a married person going it alone spiritually, you'll find confidence and hope that you can help your teens develop an authentic, vibrant Christian faith. |
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