The Five Love Languages of Teenagers: The Secret to Loving Teens Effectively

Understanding today's teenagers -- The key: love from parents -- Love language #1: words of affirmation -- Love language #2: physical touch -- Love language #3: quality time -- Love language #4: acts of service -- Love language #5: gifts -- Discover your teenager's primary love language -- Love and anger; part one: breaking destructive patterns -- Love and anger; part two: forging constructive paths -- Love and the desire for independence -- Love and the need for responsibility -- Loving when your teen fails -- The single parent family, teenagers, and the love languages -- The blended family, teenagers, and the love languages -- Epilogue -- Appendices. Never has there been a more exciting -- or more challenging -- era in which to be (or parent) a teenager. The benefits of living in today's global society are great. But so are the dangers. Across the nation, pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, abortions, drug usage, homicide, and suicide have all become commonplace among teens. Yet despite these facts, moms and dads continue to have a dramatic impact on their children. Research shows that parents -- not peers -- exert the most significant influence in the life of a teen. And the door to that influence is love. The key to opening that door, according to Gary Chapman, Ph.D., is learning to express that love in a language that makes sense to your teenager. You can more effectively meet your adolescent's need for love -- and thus, better support your child in every area of life -- by gaining a better understanding of The Five Love Languages of Teenagers

Socially, mentally, and spiritually, teenagers face a variety of pressures and stresses each day. Despite these peer pressures; it is still parents who can influence teens the most. Get equipped to be a better parent as The Five Love Languages of Teenagers explores the world in which teenagers live, explains the developmental changes, and give tools to help you identify and appropriately communicate in your teen's love language.

Get practical tips on loving your teen effectively and explore key issues in your teen's life including anger and independence. Finally, learn how to set boundaries that are enforced with discipline and consequences, and discover useful ways for the difficult task of loving when your teen fails. Get ready to discover how the principles of the five love languages can really work in the lives of your teens and family. Over 400,000 copies sold!

Starting with the world in which your teenager livers, Dr. Chapman walks through the emotional needs of teenagers and how you can best express your love to them I think it is safe to say that in no generation has the task of parenting teenagers been more perplexing than at the present time.