Written with the best intention I'm sure, but sloppy facts and figures "There was a survey", and a heavy reliance on suggesting God, religion, ministers, church, and church groups for salvation. It's not that I found no useful info9rmation, but that it was so well hidden in all the hokey, that it makes it almost worthless.

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If it just talked about the five love languages and applied then to teenagers, it would have been a very short book, so thankfully there was also a lot of great material here about listening to your teen instead of treating them like a kid or trying to control them, and setting and enticing consequences. I found it useful to see some more examples of ways to show love to Young people whose independence is growing.

Notable Content: Mentions of abortion, suicide, drugs, gun violence, pornography, and physical abuse. Discussion of sex and how the culture has changed regarding it; some other mentions of and discussions regarding it, including parental sexual abuse.

Unrated because, being a teenager myself, I'm not the target audience, but this seems like a pretty good book. If you're familiar with the mental and emotional changes of adolescence—independence, unpredictability, etc.—and the love languages, you probably won't find this book particularly useful. It could be a good refresher, though, and you will probably learn some things anyway. (It's probably worth noting here that a full 10% of this book is written for single parents, divorced parents, and remarried parents, and reading those sections isn't particularly interesting if those don't apply to you.)

This book has been one of the most useful parenting books I have ever read. Rather than methodology, it focuses on how to love your teen in a way that they will receive it. It builds on the premise that if a person feels emotional love from those closest to him or her, it will radically impact relationships and choices for the good.

I actually got quite a lot of encouragement and conviction out of these pages, but no condemnation. No promises or guarantees implying that my teens will "turn out right" in the end if I just follow some formula. It's a practical how-to guide on loving another person.

I needed every word.

This is singly one of the best parenting books I've read. There's useful and valuable suggestions to connecting to your teen in a way that's authentic. Hands down as good if not better than the original. I say that in the spirit that raising teens is hard business. Definitely would recommend to anyone raising a teen and anyone banging their head against the wall to figure them out. :)

This guide started out well enough, but as many other reviewers pointed out, it gets repetitive and superficial from there. I was pretty impressed that the author could string out the basics of his five love languages concept for so long, without really adding any new information. Still, this gave me a refresher on perceiving the different ways teens express themselves, so I guess it was somewhat worthwhile. Skim through his original book, though, to get it all and save some time.

Gary Chapman’s The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers: the Secret to Loving Teens Effectively discusses how parents can help their teenagers make a smooth transition from childhood to adulthood by speaking the correct love language to their teens. Chapman explains that teenagers need to feel connected, accepted, and nurtured. Knowing a teenager’s love language helps to keep his “love tank” filled.

The five love languages are the same as Chapman’s previous books on love languages, but this time he focuses on how teenagers are changing and how they speak a different dialect of their language during this period of seeking independence and self identity. Each love language is explained and illustrated with examples, but the best part is that at the end of each chapter on a particular love language Chapman gives you a list of ideas on how you can implement that love language with your teen. Chapters on anger, dealing with teens when they fail, responsibility, and freedom are also helpful in providing ideas in showing your teenagers that you love them. Chapman devotes a couple of chapters to single parents and blended families and how parents in these situations can best show love to their teens.

This book is also helpful to teachers in the classroom. Teachers are most effective when students are able to connect with them and when students feel loved. Each of the love languages discussed in Chapman’s book is easily adapted to the classroom. For example, the love language of quality time can be when a teacher takes time to listen and talk to students outside of class or takes extra time helping them with a concept. Another application for teachers is the section on rules which they can use to review what happens in their own classroom. Chapman recommends rules to be few, clear, and fair and that they should have clear and consistent consequences that are administered with love. Because teachers spend so much time with their students, The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers is a beneficial read.(reviewed by E.Myers, Upper School English & Literature Instructor)

DISCLOSURE: Complimentary copies of Gary Chapman's "The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers: the Secret to Loving Teens Effectively" were provided by Moody Publishers for the purpose of review by faculty of ACS. Opinions expressed are solely those of the reviewer. The faculty of Alamance Christian School will be studying various "5 Love Languages" books by Gary Chapman in in-service training.

All beings who work with teens should read this book. Over the course of reading it, I have had several situations already where Chapman's advice has come to mind and helped me behave skillfully in potentially bad situations.

In the last part of the book, Chapman gives examples of moral failures that some teens might find themself in. One of his examples is pregnancy. This rubbed me wrong because pregnancy is a biological event, it is not morally good or bad. I wish this one particular example had been slightly different.

Overall, a really wonderful, deeply helpful, very wise book.

Really great advice on how to connect with and show love to your kids, honoring their unique personalities and preferences during these transitional teenage years. I currently have 2 teens and 1 preteen, and in these last few weeks as I've been listening to this book I think I have been able to understand them better.

The book goes through the Five Love Languages and how to recognize them and apply them to your teenagers. That was only the first half of the book, though, and I wondered what would be in the rest of the book. The second half talks about common challenges and topics with raising teens and advice on how to parent through those issues in general, and in using the Five Love Languages. I found I even learned from the chapters that didn't specifically apply to my children (for example the chapters on single parenthood and blended families).

A common theme in this book is how to teach your kids using the double-sided coin of freedom and responsibility.

This audiobook is in high demand through my library system on Libby. I put it on hold June 2020 and finally got it 15 months and 3 days later, in September 2021. When it became available I dropped everything else I was reading so I could read the entire book in my allotted time. I knew I wouldn't get it for another year+ if I needed to check it out again. I finished it 3 minutes before it was automatically returned!

Not sure if the premise is correct about the five languages of love and their consequences in parenting, but the author does give some fairly obvious observations about how and why to foster the independence of a teenager. The religious referrals are particularly suspect in that their inclusion in essentially a how-to book from a psychologist (scientist) makes me question the science behind his advice. Yet, some things in this book are useful. Apparently, I need all the help I can get.

This was an enjoyable read. I actually liked it better than the original. I look forward to referring back to some of the ideas as my children grow.