Understanding Your Teen: Shaping Their Character, Facing Their Realities - Softcover

Burns, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0830844872 ISBN 13: 9780830844876

Publisher: IVP, 2017

Synopsis

Parenting teenagers is one of the biggest challenges parents face. New realities make becoming independent more difficult. Teens are traveling a different road and are moving at a different pace than those of previous generations. Today's cultural environment is more complicated and confusing than ever. But fear not! Family expert Jim Burns provides a handy guide for parenting teens. For teens to become responsible adults, parents need to help them grow through developmental changes to attain a healthy self-identity, establish good relationships, make wise decisions, and grow in their relationship with God. Burns shows how parents can shape behavior and character, navigate social media challenges, and communicate and resolve conflict healthily. He also tackles the realities of our day, including cyberbullying, dating violence, self-injury, depression, and much more. Whether you're facing serious troubles or need simple tips for a better family life, this book offers help and hope.

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Book Description

"Being a teenager is hard! Being the parent of a teenager is equally hard! I can't imagine anyone better at helping teens and their parents navigate this season of life than Jim Burns. Understanding Your Teen is filled with practical wisdom and great stories. Philip and I have known Jim for decades, and his wisdom on family dynamics has been a great help to us personally as well as to our church, Oasis. If you are doing your best to understand your teenager, or if you know someone who is, then I can't suggest strongly enough that you need this book!" (Holly Wagner, pastor, Oasis Church, author of Find Your Brave)

"I can't think of any twenty-first century leader who has earned more right to speak to the topic of parent-teen relationships than Jim Burns! His sage insights come from his highly successful decades of being in the youth ministry trenches like few others. If you are the parent of a teenager, disregard this book at your own peril." (Jeanne Mayo, executive director of youth and young adult outreach, Victory World Church, Atlanta)

"Once again, Jim Burns has written a practical, user-friendly guide for parents who are asking how to handle the predictable and in some cases, not so predictable issues that arise in the course of navigating the teen years. It will point parents in the right direction, keep them on the straight path, and bolster their parenting confidence." (John Rosemond, family psychologist, author of Parenting by the Book)

About the Author

Jim Burns (PhD) is president of HomeWord and executive director of the HomeWord Center for Youth and Family at Azusa Pacific University. Host of the nationwide HomeWord radio broadcasts, he also speaks around the world at seminars and conferences. His many books include Confident Parenting, Pass It On, Teaching Your Children Healthy Sexuality, and 10 Building Blocks for a Solid Family. He and his wife, Cathy, live Southern California and have three grown daughters.

Edition details

• Publisher: IVP
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0830844872
• ISBN 13: 9780830844876
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224