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And Then I Had Teenagers: Encouragement for Parents of Teens and Preteens

And Then I Had Teenagers: Encouragement for Parents of Teens and Preteens
Author: Susan Alexander Yates
Publisher: Baker Books
Publication Year: 2001

If your kids are approaching the teen years or looking at colleges, this book is for you. It examines ten challenges for parents of teens or preteens and provides many practical solutions that will enable this season to be enjoyed, not merely endured.

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“You just dont understand!”
“But all my friends get to…”
“Why cant you trust me?”
“Im not sure I believe…”

We’ve all heard similar phrases. If your kids are approaching the teen years or looking at colleges, this book is for you. It examines ten challenges for parents of teens or preteens and provides many practical solutions that will enable this season to be enjoyed, not merely endured.

The bestselling author of And Then I Had Kids offers encouragement and guidance to parents of teens and preteens. Drawing from her experiences raising five teenagers, she offers parents a unique blend of insight, compassion, and advice. Yates empathizes with parents and, at the same time, helps them consider their teenagers’ perspectives and needs.

The book offers help for parents facing normal teen issues as well as painful crises. End-of-chapter questions make this a good resource for small groups.

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“What a great book on parenting teens! This practical title covers many aspects of guiding teens into adulthood, from setting limits to choosing the right college. It can be digested in a few, delightful sittings. Highly recommend this book to all present and future parents and grandparents of teenagers.”
– Sandra Smith, CBA Marketplace, June 2001
“For years we have looked to Susan Yates for practical wisdom, counsel, and advice as we raise our children. This book is a welcome mentoring manual full of biblical insight.”
– Bob and Mary Ann Lepine, co-hosts, FamilyLife Today
“An authentic, practical book for parents of teens who want to raise them right.”
– Dennis Rainey, executive director of FamilyLife
“Written out of experience, this book speaks to parents of pre-teens and teens. It is an encouraging book because parents see that other caring, Christian parents have problems with their children as they move into the adolescent years. Some of the emotions parents feel are fear, frustration, guilt, loneliness, confusion and the tormenting question of “What if?” As the reader goes from chapter to chapter there is a comforting support – the example of others who have shared the impossible injury and found it possible to work through the experience. The presence and comfort of a close relationship with God gives the assurance each of us needs. Read And Then I Had Teenagers, share it with friends, and enjoy your teenagers.”
– Christian Observer
“If you have teens or preteens, then you definitely need heavy doses of encouragement and hope–and this book is full of those, as well as compassionate advice. Susan, a TCW columnist and five-time veteran of the “teenage wars,” helps guide you through the challenges of living with your kids–from taking advantage of peer pressure to setting limits and letting go.”
– Today’s Christian Woman, July/August 2001
“Susan Alexander Yates’ colorful descriptions of raising her five teenagers reassure readers that she understands the anxiety experienced by parents of adolescents. She offers practical suggestions for dealing with a wide variety of situations from moodiness to morality and from setting limits to letting go and gives guidelines for when to stand firm and when to flex. She handles hot topics with candor from a Christian perspective. Yates encourages readers to focus on the joys and blessings their teenagers bring. She reminds parents that just as God is always ready to renew our relationship with him, we can always improve our relationship with our teenage children.”
– Ellen Javernick, Books Magazine, September 2001
“Yates, author of And Then I Had Kids, tackles the trials of parenting adolescents in this down-to-earth Christian manual. She encourages parents to not just endure, but to enjoy, their children’s teen years. She identifies some common challenges – teens who suddenly become uncommunicative, who reject the faith of their childhood or who are hypercritical of themselves and others. She also discusses “hot topics” such as dating, driving, grades, drugs, TV and movies. What places this parenting guide a cut above is its honesty; Yates is quite frank about the joys and sorrows of raising her own five kids (who were so closely spaced that there was one year when they were all teenagers! Yikes!). Christian parents will appreciate Yates’s warm and wise counsel.”
– Jana Riess, Publisher’s Weekly, July 2001
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Susan Alexander Yates

I’m a wife (of 50 years), mom to five children (including a set of twins), and grandmother to 21 (including a set of quadruplets!). My favorite time of the year is when all my kids and grandkids are together for a week of “cousins and family camp” in the foothills of the Shenandoah Mountains of Virginia.

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