Boundaries: A Guide for Teens

How to build relationships that protect your personal space and respect your feelings.

This book invites teens to examine their lives and relationships. It begins by helping you define what physical, emotional, and sexual boundaries are. Stories of other teens illustrate how personal space and feelings can be either respected or violated in relationships with others.

The journal format in this book encourages you to reflect on and record feelings about your own relationships. Do people respect your boundaries? Has anyone ever made you feel uncomfortable in some way? Have you ever felt manipulated, intimidated, or mistreated by someone you regarded as a friend? How can you get a friendship that has gone wrong back on track?

Use Boundaries: A Guide for Teens to help assess your relationships with family, friends, classmates, and new acquaintances. Learn how to build close and satisfying friendships while guarding against being used or abused by others. Learn what it takes for you to be a good friend in return.

Father Val J. Peter expanded Father Flanagan's dream of changing the way America cares for children and families. He led the growth of Boys Town from the Village of Boys Town, Nebraska, eventually to 19 sites in 14 states and Washington D.C. An Omaha native, Father Peter was the fourth Executive Director of Boys Town serving from 1985 to 2005.