7 Vital Skills for Parenting Teen Boys and Communicating with Your Teenage Son

Proven Positive Parenting Tips for Raising Teenage Boys and Preparing Your Teenager for Manhood

De: Frank Dixon

Narrado por: Shawn Lennox

Parents of teenage boys often feel that they don’t have the power to steer their child’s life in the right direction. The best strategy to combat this is to anticipate problems before they arise.

In 7 Vital Skills for Parenting Teen Boys and Communicating with Your Teenage Son, best-selling parenting skills author Frank Dixon offers caring parents proven methods that any mom or dad can use to understand teenage boys and improve communication skills with your teenager so that you can help your son to become a successful and respectful young man as he matures.

As a parent or guardian of a teenaged boy, you understand the unique challenges that you have to overcome - your son’s lack of communication and poor listening skills, the mood swings, lack of discipline and, maybe, even some personal hygiene issues. But the same precious and loving son is still in that overgrown, clumsy body. You just must learn to understand that most of what you are dealing with is a normal part of going through puberty and maturing.

In this ground-breaking positive parenting book, you will learn the seven most important parenting skills for helping your teenage son to communicate better and feel more comfortable talking to his parents:

• The most important things affecting your son’s life during his teen years - how to help him understand how his body is changing and why it makes him behave differently than before puberty
• The science behind the emotional changes - physical changes in your teen boy’s brain and how it affects thought processes, behavior, lack of awareness, and social skills
• How to change your parenting style, family communication, positive reinforcement, and conflict resolution tools for your maturing teen son
• How to deal with insecurity with physical appearance and improving self-esteem for boys
• How to improve self-expression and get your teenaged son to open up to parents instead of using grunts, one-word responses, or totally ignoring you
• How to teach responsibility to boys and ensure they understand accountability for not meeting your expectations

Now is the perfect time to start building a healthy relationship with your teenaged son and learn the parenting skills that are vital to ensure that your son has the support that he needs to feel loved and thrive.

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Minimally Helpful

This barely touched the surface. The author failed to go in depth. This is a classic example of telling and not showing. 

Helpful Overview

Short and sweet straight to the point. Great book for a quick overview about teenage boys. Very helpful. I have already recommended this book to my friend.

Good basics

It was a good quick review, however very brief. There's hardly any details of strategies or examples.

Mostly good, but beware

Mostly good parenting advice. Had some issue with chapter 5 on breaking stereotypes. The author suggested we use gender neutral pronouns with young children, going as far to say we should use “them/they” instead of he/she. I agree that boys need to know it’s okay to be sensitive, to cry, to show emotion, BUT I do not agree that we should pretend there are no biologically instinctual difference between male and female humans that make them act in different ways (protector vs nurturer, etc). We are born with intrinsically different chromosomes that make us the gender we are. Sure, that gender might be on a spectrum, but male and female are different and that’s okay! Actually, it’s not just okay, it’s essential to the success of our species that we be different. Our differences should be celebrated…we should not be teaching our children to pretend otherwise.

Helpful

Good tips for dealing with teenage boys. Helpful reminders! Will apply some of the tips with my own.

way too woke

this book should be labeled "how to talk to a gender studies undergrad". I was more interested in a book about men talking to sons

First Parenting book

Never needed a book before age 17 for my son. This book is concise and has substance. Grateful for finding something so straight to the point for a single father.

Raising Teen Boys

This was perfectly concise and informative. I really needed this book. Very well done overall.

Very generic advice

Save your time and money and invest in a book with real strategies and research into the Psycology of young men. Disappointed.

Don’t waste a credit

This book offers, no special insight to parenting teenagers other than be a good parent. Discipline your child don’t beat them, allow them to pay restitution, give them some space. I’m not sure I should’ve expected much more with an hour run time, but this was a big disappointment.