Teenage Boys: Surviving and Enjoying These Extraordinary Years

This book has been so good to boost my confidence in the challenge of parenting. It has helped me understand about my teenager and give me advice on how to handle situations that I didn't know what to do. It's become my handbook and I will continue to pick it for years to come.

In constant turmoil because I didn't "get" this now man-boy in my home who I've nurtured and cared for for thirteen years, I was looking for some help. Beausay is the father of two teenage boys (and a younger daughter), a clinical psychotherapist, and a help to Olympic-caliber athletes through the Academy of Sports Psychology. He writes through a biblical worldview but with real WISDOM, not just knowledge--so this book is very different from so much of the "Christian-ese" help books available. He begins the book educating me and being an instrument of change in my attitude and understanding of teenage boys. And he continues with practical help and counsel that, since applying, have transformed everything from communication to consequences within our home. Uncertainty, mystery and trouble still come but we are better armed as parents to love, inspire and counsel this wonderful son we've been given. Thanks Mr. Beausay!

This is a wonderful book for anyone with young men in the home. with so many parents grumbling about the teenage years, i felt blessed to find this book! instead of dread-find inspiration and enjoyement in this special time:)

This book gives you a bright and new outlook on dealing with your Son. Mr. Beausay's methods are compationate and yet very effective. The secret is to use it like a refrence book. Read it over and over again always going back when you need to review. You will find a new perspective every time. Very interesting reading with the Bible as a large source of it's wisdom.

The sons of Bill Beausay, author of Teenage Boys, are lucky to have Bill as their father. With wit, compassion, concern, and wisdom, the author gives us advice and sample scenarios for those of us living with the most difficult, yet potentially delightful of people, teenage boys. I enjoyed the book immensely. Bill wants us all to remember the power we have to affect our sons. He provides sample dialogues with which to work through problem areas. With sections entitled A Parenting Plan for Man-Making, Shaping the Inner Man at Home, Shaping a Man Ready for Life, and Shaping a Man's Soul, Bill Beausay is concerned with the big questions in life. He wants the absolute best for his sons and describes many of his own experiences raising teenage boys.In the final chapter " Dreamers and Leaders", the author reprints a letter he published in his newspaper column "Winners". The letter is to the parents of a young man Bill observes in the checkout line of a store." I saw your son today and felt compelled to write you this letter. I wouldn't have even noticed him had not my eyes accidentally caught his. Something seemed vacant there. Nothing about him really spoke of life, of energy, or of distinction. I was overcome by the sense that you, as his folks, should see this moment. ... there's not a reason in the world for him to blend in like he does, everything about him is unique and alive and wonderful. I'm certain that unless you tell him, nobody will. You can teach him to dream bigger, hope larger, see wider, think more... Ask him to stand erect, chance a look into another's eyes, smile and laugh loudly. It's a mom and dad's job to find the spark in a young man's heart and carefully guard it. You can cradle his hopes and help them come to be..."I bought a copy for a good friend with hopes that it will help him with his 14 year-old son. He's delighted with the book. I wish Teenage Boys had been around in the 50's for my Dad to read.