Gary Chapman is an American author of the best-selling Five Love Languages series regarding human relationships that has sold over 12 million copies and has been translated into 50 languages. And, the final two chapters provide the application of these love languages for single as well as parents with a blended family. Chapters 9 to 12 explores key issues in the teen’s life.Ĭhapter 13 explores why loving them is the most difficult task, especially during hard times at which parents sometimes fail.
Chapters 3 to 7 focus on the Five Love Languages and appropriate ways of communicating with teens.Ĭhapter 8 offers suggestions on how to discover your teen’s ‘primary love language’ which according to Gary is the most effective way to fill their emotional tank. The chapter also provides an insight into the ‘Five Fundamental Differences’ between contemporary teenagers and teenagers of the past.Ĭhapter 2 provides an in-depth explanation of the importance of love in the emotional, intellectual, social and spiritual world of the teenager. It not only addresses the developmental changes teens go through in becoming an adolescent but also how these changes look like in the contemporary world.
Here parents get to explore how their teenager’s life looks. Raising a teenager can be complex for some parents and trying to connect to the unrest which has no simple answer to it yet in the soul of the contemporary teenager can be an extremely frustrating experience.Ī ccording to Gary only when parents become uninvolved their role of guidance gets replaced by the gang, peer group or friends.Ī brief preview- the book starts with an outline to ‘Understanding Contemporary Teens’. Language - English (21st Century Christian Literature) Gary explains the life of teenagers, changes they go through and provides tools to help readers to identify how to appropriately communicate in their teen’s love language.īook’s Name - The Five Love Language of Teenagers Similarly, his ‘The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers’ is a book for parents, grandparents, and school teachers who care about teenagers.
No matter who you are and want to improve your relationship with, in this series there is always a book for you. In his ‘The 5 Love Languages’ series, Gary Chapman has introduced simple truths and how to work around them to make human relationships better, be it with your spouse, children, teens or singles. And this is when relationships start to fall out.
For relationships to last takes intentional commitment over time but if the pair is just not on the same page it can become intimidating and overwhelming, sometimes even impossible. How does one give and receive love? Is there a pattern or procedure to follow for the same or does it just happen?. “All research indicates that the most significant influence on the life of a teenager comes from parents.”
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