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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.  Dr. Townsend shows parents how to bring control to an out-of-control family life, how to set limits and still be loving parents, how to define legitimate boundaries for the family, how to instill in teens a godly character.  He gives important keys for establishing healthy boundaries — the bedrock of good relationships, maturity, safety, and growth for teens and the adults in their lives.  The book offers help in raising your teens to take responsibility for their actions, attitudes, and emotions.  Visit Parenting Teens.

How to Really Parent Your Teenager

Ross Campbell

Dr. Campbell offers a guidebook of positive, proven strategies for real-world problems.  Parents will learn how to spot depression and anticipate rebellion, how to discuss sexuality and keep anger in check, and most importantly, how to maintain communication and communicate love.  Visit Parenting Teens.

Families today are experiencing a new set of realities.  Working parents are harried, tired, and overextended.  They are unable to protect their children from the enemy within, the inappropriate television they watch for hours, the computer games that keep them from playing outside, the virtual reality they tune in to when they should be learning about the real world.  And so, Pipher says, we have houses without walls.  Compounding this is the fact that our psychological theories don't work anymore, because they were developed decades ago, when families were tightly knit, relatively monolithic institutions.  Pipher offers ideas for simple actions we can all take to help rebuild our families and strengthen our communities.  Visit Parenting Teens.

This is a book about how a boy -- and a man -- becomes a man. We live in a time where most men and boys are essentially fatherless.  Whatever their circumstances, they have no man actually taking them through the many adventures, trials, battles and experiences they need to shape a masculine heart within them.  They find themselves on their own to figure life out, and that is a lonely place to be.  Their fears, anger, boredom and their many addictions all come out of this fatherless place within them, a fundamental uncertainty in the core of their being.  Eldredge reveals how God takes a man on the masculine journey and how parents can lead their sons to manhood.  Visit Adolescence and Emotional Health.

Every little girl has dreams of being swept up into a great adventure, of being the beautiful princess.  Sadly, when women grow up, they are often swept up into a life filled merely with duty and demands.  Many Christian women are tired, struggling under the weight of the pressure to be a "good servant," a nurturing caregiver, or a capable home manager.  This book shows readers the glorious design of women before the fall, describes how the feminine heart can be restored, and casts a vision for the power, freedom, and beauty of a woman released to be all she was meant to be. By revealing the core desires every woman shares - to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a grand adventure, and to unveil beauty, John and Stasi Eldredge invite women to recover their feminine hearts, created in the image of an intimate and passionate God.  They also  encourage men to discover the secret of a woman's soul and to delight in the beauty and strength women were created to offer.  And more, they help parents to lead their daughters to become the strong and beautiful women they were created to be.

This book contains very practical guidance on how to express the teen's primary love language, how to teach them appropriate responsibility, and how to properly handle both parental and teen anger.  It is a tangible resource for stemming the tide of violence, immorality, and despair engulfing many teens today.  Visit Adolescence.

In question-and- answer format, Stepliving for Teens covers a wide range of actual stepfamily concerns like:  "What should I do if my parent tells me one thing and my stepparent says something else?", "I feel guilty having fun with my father and stepmother when my mom is alone.  What should I do?"  Not only will teens get honest answers from two psychologists who specialize in teenagers and stepfamilies, but also straight-talk advice from other step-teens.  Visit Help Your Teen Adjust to a Stepfamily and Stepfamilies and Co-Parenting.

With the same profound insight, simplicity, and practical wisdom that have already reached tens of millions of readers, Covey demonstrates how the principles he introduced in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People  can be used to build the kind of strong, loving family that lasts for generations.  Read an overview of the habits!  Visit Three Resolutions.