Parent Resources:

Counseling:

Ministy Websites:

“Understanding Your Teenager”

CPYU.com:
Center for Parent and Youth Understanding

CPYU is a nonprofit organization committed to building strong families by serving to bridge the cultural-generational gap between parents and teenagers.

Ask Hayley.com:
Hayley DiMarco is the Chief Creative Officer and founder of Hungry Planet. She writes cutting-edge and bestselling books for teens like Dateable, Mean Girls, Sexy Girls, and Technical Virgin. She also writes books for former teens, including Marriable and Mean Girls All Grown Up. Her goal is to give practical answers for life’s problems and encourage readers to form stronger spiritual lives.

Real Relationships.com:
Les and Leslie. A husband-and-wife team who not only share the same name, but the same passion for helping others build healthy relationships. In 1991, the Parrotts founded the Center for Relationship Development on the campus of Seattle Pacific University – a groundbreaking program dedicated to teaching the basics of good relationships.

Student Life Family Devotions
Reverb Study

More Resources:

By: Chap Clark, Steve Rabey

Clark’s best-selling ethnographic study Hurt revealed the hard truth about contemporary adolescence: societal changes and systemic abandonment have left teenagers navigating the difficult transition to adulthood alone. Here he and Rabey sum up that research in an accessible form and lay out practical ways youth workers, volunteers, teachers, counselors, and parents should respond. An indispensable resource! Paperback.

By: Steve Gerali

Explore bullying, violence, and aggression from the perspective of the victim and the aggressor. Discover how theology informs the issue, and what practical actions you can take to help stop the violence and heal the pain.

By: Wayne Rice

What do you do when your teen uses foul language? Or dabbles in the occult? Search this accessible, encouraging resource for biblical insights and solutions! Answering 101 questions from real parents, a team of youth ministry experts addresses common areas of concern. Covers home life, emotions, sexuality, discipline, drugs and alcohol, appearance, school, friends, and more.

The Space Between is the teenage parent’s best friend. The span of years between childhood and adulthood (the teen years) can make many once confident parents begin to feel helpless, confused, and fearful. They are in uncharted waters and don’t know in which direction to turn. Thankfully Walt Mueller has studied adolescents and their culture for twenty years and been tested in the real world when his own children became teens. With understanding and practicality, Walt Mueller brings his research and wisdom to his book, The Space Between.

By: Brian Housman

In Engaging Your Teen’s World, youth minister veteran Brian Housman encourages parents to lead their teens to redeem the culture instead of engaging in an “us vs. them” mentality. Instead of blaming the culture for family problems or making decisions out of fear, try some of Brian’s ideas on engaging the world through service and love. If you decide to use this book for group discussion or a book club, you will find the chapter discussion questions at the back of this book a useful tool.

Learn to parent teens with wisdom from a seasoned parent of teens. In Parenting Your Teen and Loving It, Susie Davis offers advice and encouragement to moms who want to be the best parent possible. Using wit and transparency, she addresses the hard questions and decisions that go along with parenting your teenager who seems to have overnight turned into a baffling mixture of hormonal moodiness and sweetness. Susie also includes reflection questions for readers, so that they can take the readings and personalize them for their own families and unique situations.

By: Chap Clark, Dee Clark

Your teens live in a MySpace® world with different sorts of challenges than you faced. In Disconnected: Parenting Teens in a MySpace World authors, parents, and family experts, Chap and Dee Clark help you understand your teen. They describe how things have changed since you were a teenager and offers you ways to build your relationship with your teens while instilling in them the values they need to survive and thrive in their world.