Parenting Ahead: Preparing Now for the Teen Years

After having raised three teenage children, Kristen Hatton wrote Parenting Ahead: Preparing Now for the Teen Years to share some of what the Lord taught her with parents who are still to reach this stage. Often parents of younger children are looking for advice and help because they are fearful of the teen years.

The book is split into three parts:

Part 1: a foundation for long range, redemptive, hope-filled parenting

Part 2: some pitfalls that deter parents from living out the gospel or cause them to lose sight of it

And Part 3: what living redemptively in the home might look like.

Parenting Ahead is a very helpful book that touches on the basics of these areas. It would be useful to read this book with parents and then explore how to apply what it suggest to their own situations

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