Nine Things Teens Should Know and Parents Are Afraid to Talk about: Countdown to Adolescence

• Examines the relevant issues to today’s adolescents and teenagers.
• Practical advice for teens to resist temptation and keep themselves pure.
• Explains the physical and emotional changes that young people go through in concise and easy-to-understand language.
• Essential reading for parents and adolescents approaching their teenage years.

Kids in today’s world encounter a multitude of issues that are totally different from those their parents had to face as teenagers. They are faced with the same confusing emotional and physical changes adolescents have always had to face, but in a world that is much more depraved and corrupt than that of their parents.

Dr. Joe White is the president of Kanakuk Kamps in Branson, Missouri — whose 12 locations in the Ozarks and Colorado provide athletic training and spiritual guidance to over 27,000 teenagers each summer. Joe is a frequent guest speaker at national meetings including Promise Keepers, and the author of 13 books. Joe and his wife, Debbie Jo, have four adult children. Nicholas Comninellis is an associate professor of family medicine and public health at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and President of INMED— Institute for International Medicine. Nicholas spends his summers working with teenagers at Kanakuk Kamps in Branson, Missouri. The father of three teens himself, Nicholas is also the author of five books, including Where Do I Go From Here? (New Leaf Press, 2002), and Darwin’s Demise (Master Books, 2001) with Dr. Joe White.