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Summary: Must Reading for Parents of Pre-teens
Review: An excellant review of how a troubled teen affects your marriage and family, along with valuable strategies for success. A very helpful list of resources for parents and professionals. This very practical book challenges us all not to get trapped into looking at a troubled teen in the moment, but rather as a person who is in development and in need of guidance and assistence. There is hope in focusing on "the long haul"
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Summary: Must Reading for Parents of Pre-teens
Review: An excellant review of how a troubled teen affects your marriage and family, along with valuable strategies for success. A very helpful list of resources for parents and professionals. This very practical book challenges us all not to get trapped into looking at a troubled teen in the moment, but rather as a person who is in development and in need of guidance and assistence. There is hope in focusing on "the long haul"
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Summary: Fresh perspective for the "long haul"
Review: Dr. Larson provides another straight-forward and practical book on parenting troubled teens. For the parents that have suffered through the straying of their child, they will find hope for the journey, principles to live by as a parent, and strategies that can have an immediate impact in a troubled kid's life.Dr, Larson's unique ability to blend the latest in psychological research and timeless biblical insights affords parents a fresh look at parenting "for the long haul"
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Summary: Fresh perspective for the "long haul"
Review: Dr. Larson provides another straight-forward and practical book on parenting troubled teens. For the parents that have suffered through the straying of their child, they will find hope for the journey, principles to live by as a parent, and strategies that can have an immediate impact in a troubled kid's life. Dr, Larson's unique ability to blend the latest in psychological research and timeless biblical insights affords parents a fresh look at parenting "for the long haul"
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Summary: Answers for dealing with rebellious teens!
Review: If you're raising teenagers and are feeling the generation gap widen by the day, "When Teens Stray" will help you regain a solid perspective on your role as a parent or guardian and help you stop beating yourself up about your parenting abilities. Two chapters in particular, "Seven Common Myths Parents Hold About Their Kids" and "Six Common Myths Paents Hold About Themselves," get to the heart of the matter and challenge the uncertainty and despair we parents sometimes feel wondering if our kids will ever turn into responsible, enjoyable adults! Although written from a Christian perspective, there's not an ounce of "Christianese" or "holier than thou" preaching in the book; just encouragement and affirmation and lots of examples of parent/teen struggles. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Answers for dealing with rebellious teens!
Review: If you're raising teenagers and are feeling the generation gap widen by the day, "When Teens Stray" will help you regain a solid perspective on your role as a parent or guardian and help you stop beating yourself up about your parenting abilities. Two chapters in particular, "Seven Common Myths Parents Hold About Their Kids" and "Six Common Myths Paents Hold About Themselves," get to the heart of the matter and challenge the uncertainty and despair we parents sometimes feel wondering if our kids will ever turn into responsible, enjoyable adults! Although written from a Christian perspective, there's not an ounce of "Christianese" or "holier than thou" preaching in the book; just encouragement and affirmation and lots of examples of parent/teen struggles. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: When teens stray parenting for the long haul
Review: In Dr. Larsons new book When Teens Stray Parenting for the Long Haul. I found a great amount of helpful information for parents who are raising teenagers in this day and age.
Dr. Larson says "parenting for the long haul means parenting with the future in mind, trying to make each day's decisions with a mind toward five or ten years from now. In the book he gives many real life stories that cut to the heart of many issues facing teens today. The results that Dr. Larson has found are kids that throws their arms round their parents and tell them they are eternaly greatfull for the way that were raised.
Dr. Larson gives seven common myths parents hold about their kids. These myths are very insightful. They will help you see the ways that our teenagers realy see the world not the way we think they do.
When our teens do go atray Dr. Larsons give tips like " It is far better to confront transgressions right away. He says some times it is better for them to pick the consequences for their actions than for us as parrents to.
Later in the book he gives us seven proactive principles for parenting rebellious teens. These principles are agian very insightful. He uses time tested Biblical wisdom thoughout his book. Dr. larson says that "The experiences of raising a rebellious child gives parents a unque insight into the character of God". Even Jesus never with held his love from Judas Iscariot even thought he would betray him. We as parents of teens can all learn from this.
Dr. Larson says that we as parents can get away with many mistakes in parenting if our home if it is built with a solid loving alliance. He offers many profesional outlets for help in the raining of rebellious teens if one feels thay need help in any of these areas.
Thank you Dr. Larson for this wonderful book. My wife and I give it the hiest raiting.
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Summary: A wonderful parenting resource
Review: It is a pleasure to read a book with practical and straight forward answers to very difficult and heart wrenching dilemmas. I appreciated Scott's willingness to be honest with his own struggles as well as effectively communicating the issues that many parents face on a day to day basis. It is a comfort to hear my own questions faced in this book and to have some hands on ideas on how to work through them. Most of all, I appreciated the way Scott consistently pointed us all to the One and Only God who is able to keep us and our children in His hand.
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Summary: A wonderful parenting resource
Review: It is a pleasure to read a book with practical and straight forward answers to very difficult and heart wrenching dilemmas. I appreciated Scott's willingness to be honest with his own struggles as well as effectively communicating the issues that many parents face on a day to day basis. It is a comfort to hear my own questions faced in this book and to have some hands on ideas on how to work through them. Most of all, I appreciated the way Scott consistently pointed us all to the One and Only God who is able to keep us and our children in His hand.
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Summary: When Teens Stray, Parenting for the Long Haul
Review: Scott Larson's book, "When Teens Stray" is was one of those type of books that you can not put down until you are finished reading it! This book is a tremendous resource for any parent or person working with the youth of today. Larson is honest, practical and theologically on target. I wish this book was around during the teenage years of my two children! I highly recommend this book for any parent going through the teenage years with their kids. It will save you a lot of pain and anguish! Scott's experience in working with troubled youth was obvious throughout the book. This book is now a standard in our church's bookstore!
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