Boundaries with Teens

Author: John Townsend
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310565677
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Establish wise and loving limits that make a positive difference in your teen, in the rest of your family, and in you. The teen years: relationships, peer pressure, school, dating, character. To help teenagers grow into healthy adults, parents and youth workers need to teach them how to take responsibility for their behavior, their values, and their lives. From bestselling author and counselor Dr. John Townsend, Boundaries with Teens 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. With wisdom and empathy, Dr. Townsend applies biblically based principles for the challenging task of guiding your children through the teen years. Using the same principles he used to successfully raise two teens, he shows you how to: Deal with disrespectful attitudes and impossible behavior in your teen Set healthy limits and realistic consequences Be loving and caring while establishing rules Determine specific strategies to deal with problems both big and small Discover how boundaries make parenting teens better today! Plus, check out Boundaries family collection of books dedicated to key areas of life – dating, marriage, raising young kids, and leadership. Workbooks and Spanish editions are also available.

Boundaries

Author: Val J. Peter
Publisher: Boys Town Press
ISBN: 9781889322902
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
This book invites teens to examine their lives and relationships within a religious context. It begins by helping you define what physical, emotional, spiritual, 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 book's journal format 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 God. 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.

Boundaries with Kids

Author: Henry Cloud
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310243157
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Discusses the creation of healthy boundaries and reinforced consequences to help children develop a sense of accountability for their own lives.

Parenting Today’s Teens

Author: Mark Gregston
Publisher: Certa Publishing
ISBN: 1946466514
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
Parenting today’s teens is not for cowards. Your teenager is facing unprecedented and confusing pressures, temptations, and challenges in today’s culture. Mark Gregston has helped teens and their parents through every struggle imaginable, and now he shares his biblical, practical insights with you in bite-size pieces. Punctuated with Scriptures, prayers, and penetrating questions, these one-page devotions will give you the wisdom and assurance you need to guide your teen through these years and reach the other side with relationships intact.

Parents, Teens and Boundaries

Author: Jane Bluestein
Publisher: Health Communications Incorporated
ISBN: 9781558742796
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
How you set boundaries with your teens is among the most important aspects of your parent-child relationship. Unfortunately, this ability does not come automatically with parenthood. Here Jane Bluestein, a former teacher and counselor, looks at 20 relationship-building techniques all parents can use to set limits with their teens. You'll learn the essential arts of loving, motivating, accepting, negotiating, respecting, acknowledging, communicating, supporting, empowering, trusting . . . and much more. These practical strategies for boundary setting will enable you to avoid conflict, resolve problems and establish a foundation of mutual love and respect. As a result of learning to set healthy boundaries, you may actually begin to enjoy your children's teen years!

Bonding with Your Teen Through Boundaries

Author: June Hunt
Publisher: Crossway Books
ISBN: 9781433516207
Category : Discipline of children
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A counselor teaches parents practical ways to lovingly provide boundaries in four critical areas of their teen's life. Shows how discipline and boundaries are helpful catalysts for healthy bonding.

Boundaries

Author: Henry Cloud
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310247454
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
When to say yes, when to say no to take control of your life.

Setting Boundaries® with Your Adult Children

Author: Allison Bottke
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 073697668X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
This important and compassionate new book from the creator of the successful God Allows U-Turns series will help parents and grandparents of the many adult children who continue to make life painful for their loved ones. Writing from firsthand experience, Allison identifies the lies that kept her, and ultimately her son in bondage—and how she overcame them. Additional real life stories from other parents are woven through the text. A tough–love book to help readers cope with dysfunctional adult children, Setting Boundaries® with Your Adult Children will empower families by offering hope and healing through S.A.N.I.T.Y.—a six–step program to help parents regain control in their homes and in their lives. S = STOP Enabling, STOP Blaming Yourself, and STOP the Flow of Money A = Assemble a Support Group N = Nip Excuses in the Bud I = Implement Rules/Boundaries T = Trust Your Instincts Y = Yield Everything to God Foreword by Carol Kent (When I Lay My Isaac Down)

Boundaries in Dating Workbook

Author: Henry Cloud
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310233305
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
Cloud and Townsend apply their award-winning boundaries concepts to the dating relationship. This workbook helps readers work through the principles in "Boundaries in Dating" to make the dating arena a more satisfying, productive one. Those in the dating phase can learn to enjoy its benefits to the fullest, increasing their ability to find and commit to a marriage partner.

Parenting Teens with Love & Logic

Author: Foster Cline
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780891096955
Category : Adolescent psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Even those who wait at home are eager to hear all about kindergarten. The animals are in a tizzy; Tommy is missing. The dog says Tommy is gone to a place called kindergarten. ?Where is kindergarten? they exclaim. ?What will happen to Tommy there? Will he ever come back?!? Eventually Tommy bursts into the barn with tales of all he learned in kindergarten. A charming and tender story that's sure to reassure any child heading to kindergarten.