Boundaries with Teens

When to Say Yes, How to Say No

By: John Townsend

Narrated by: Jay Charles

Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

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 best-selling 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 the 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.

©2006 John Townsend (P)2006 The Zondervan Corporation

Got Teens?

This is going to make you feel hopeful as a parent. It has good advise and helps me to understand what it was like being a teen and how to deal with that situation without losing it.

Excellent book of hope & grace in parenting teens.

Loved this book! This audiobook was an answer to prayer. It met me right where I was. It has given me a new perspective on parenting my teens and young adult. I highly recommend it! I will use this audiobook as a reference as I continue on my parenting journey.

Fantastic Read!

Out of the many I have cyphered through, this is by far The most interesting and informative that I have came across.
I highly enjoyed the examples of the real life stories that were given. Very true and very right on. I felt that the author was right there with me as I was with him.
Thank you!

Help With Your Teen

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, for anyone who has a teen. This book has given me good ideas and kept me focus on developing my child for his future growth.

What’s an idea from the book that you will remember?

It is important to talk to your child with respect even when you are disciplining him and he gives real life examples of how to do that in various challenging aspects

Great book!

This book is a must for parents. As in anything, be open-minded and go for the wisdom you can get. Be a student, not a follower.

Excellent teen parent source

Listening to the book was like hearing a relatable friend. Real scenarios, informative content, well organized and extremely thorough!

Hard to listen to the narrator sometimes.

The book is great! I learned a lot more than expected and I'm impressed with how many different topics or situations it touches. I would recommend to a friend or family member that's having struggles with their teen(s) or needs some proper direction. I must say though, if you have a pet peeve with hearing people chew gum or food, you won't be able to listen to it. He's a great narrator! But, he definitely had a piece of gum in his mouth and it was hard to stay focused on the story. If it wasn't for that, I'd give the performance 5 stars.

Exceptional book on teens

The various categories that teens deal with are discussed in this book. The parent's responsibility in their own spiritual and emotional development as they address their teens is discussed too.

A must resource for pre-teen parents!

Candidly, I found this book at times painful as I learned about the ways that I was lacking as a parent; however, that’s also precisely why I value this audiobook so much and feel a world of gratitude to Dr. John Townsend. Not only was the material interesting, the counsel is practical and invaluable. The only thing that would have made this audiobook better is if the audiobook chapters matched the chapters in the book. Since I listen while I drive, it will be very difficult to go back and find information as one audiobook chapter includes multiple chapters in the printed book. I am going to purchase a hard copy because I value this book so much. Jay Charles did a great job of narrating this book and kept me engaged.

Great Insights and Approaches

I wish I had read this a few years ago! I learned so much about how teens think you and what’s going through their minds. Townsend’s ideas, practical suggestions, examples, and encouragement make this a must-read for parents of teens!