Boundaries with Teens: When to Say Yes, How to Say No
Written by Dr. John Townsend
Narrated by Jay Charles
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About this audiobook
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.
Dr. John Townsend
Dr. John Townsend is a nationally known leadership consultant, psychologist, and author, selling over 10 million books, including the New York Times bestselling Boundaries series. John founded the Townsend Institute for Leadership and Counseling and the Townsend Leadership Program. Dr. Townsend travels extensively for corporate consulting, speaking events, and to help develop leaders, their teams, and their families. John and his family live in Southern California and Texas. Visit DrTownsend.com.
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Reviews for Boundaries with Teens
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Many good insights. I can understand those who say it was life-changing. It was recommended to me with the caveat that I'd have to not be distracted by the many Christian and biblical references. I find that's good advice. Don't avoid reading it just because you're not from a religious background; that can just be considered window dressing. The book offers a lot of help to those who are burned out or stressed by daily demands or difficult people.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really enjoyed this book. This book will be added to my reference book collection.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It is a great tool for parents and definitely all the advise are well aplicable to my life.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Good, basic thoughts on setting boundaries in your life.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5just ok as a book. The concept is simple and straight forward but the book is rather tedious.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a book that I have to read many times over, the concept of letting go of the bad to let in the good resonated more than anything. Yes the book is repetitive, but the more you read something, the more you will understand and retain. Each person carries their own daily load, but we all share our burdens.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I agree with the concepts put forward in this book, though I found it almost impossible to read from a literature point of view. I assume that Cloud and Townsend have tried to write it so that it can be read and understood by anyone, which leaves it extremely bland, repetitive and poorly written. Rather than expand well on the topic or go into greater depth, they have repeated their concepts over and again, applying the same formula to multitudes of case studies. This book could be condensed to about 20 pages, if people can't get the same thought process out of that they aren't going to. It was a good idea, but very poorly executed, they may have done better to employ a ghost writer.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A helpful book in understanding how to define and set healthy boundaries for the Christian life.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Found this book very helpful. Easy to read and grasp the principles. Essential advice for survival in marriage and parenting and friendships
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Front row placement on my bookshelves, so I can refer to it often. This book is beautifully written, with scriptural and historical data to explain and clarify sociological expectations and create more functional relations.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent read. It was recommended to me by someone who encouraged me and prayed with me. It changed the way I dealt with people, and my way of perceiving in general. If there is one book I'd recommend without reserve, it'd be this one.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'm surprised to be giving this a full five stars, seeing as Dr. Cloud is an evangelical Christian - and writes like one! - and I'm agnostic/atheist. But it earns the full five stars. What he says about boundaries (and the way to sanity) is something pretty much everyone in the modern world needs to hear in some form. If you can deal with a bit of Christianity without it driving you totally nuts (and, really, it's not all that strong, doesn't sound like a Bible study or anything), then I'd highly recommend this book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I would give this book 10 stars if I could... life changing.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a very helpful book. The authors cover a wide variety of different types of boundary issues, so naturally, the reader will find it difficult to relate to some of them. My experience was that I related quite strongly to some and couldn't relate at all to others. Still, it's certainly a very worthwhile book to read if you or someone you know is struggling with a personal boundary issue of some kind - be it spouse, family, friends, work or church. They're all pretty well covered here.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5There are a lot of helpful tips and solutions to problems with teens. I had a difficult time listening to the book because of the over usage of religious doctrine, which was my mistake, I should have read the description of the book better and would have realised it was religion based.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Some good things to say but alot of unhelpful advice. Read I Kissed Dating Goodbye it's much more clear.