The counselor at my 7th grader's school recommended this as a guide to parent teenagers. This would probably be better suited for parents who are more religious. After reading this book, I would opt to recommend "How to talk so your teenager will listen, and how to listen so your teenager will talk."

All beings who work with teens should read this book....
It was worthwhile read .

UGGGGHHHHHH....I've heard of the 5 love languages and I thought I've got a teenager, why not give it a try? A painful read...then I see it's the 4th edition. This guy has had one idea and has milked it for 20 or more years. I'm a Christian and I still found his leanings toward the Christian way, heavy handed. Not only has he milked the concept for every age group (upon further study) he also says the same thing about in five different chapters. What I learned. Not much but I did spend some time talking with my smart daughter who already knew what her "love language" is....and I'll just talk her advice and not read anything else by this guy.

This book reiterates the 5 love languages from the original book. I believe it brought a great new perspective on the teenage mind and how to approach and love on teenagers. It offers more than just the 5 languages, but additional chapters around how to deal with anger, independence, responsibility, mistakes and single parent families.

My only caveat to readers is: Gary Chapman is a Christian based author/conselor - he does make many references to church and scripture throughout. While I feel it adds to the book, I know others may have more sensitivity to that.

I loved the original "Five Love Languages" and I'm always looking for ways to better connect to my teenager (soon to be multiple teenagers), so I thought this might be a great resource for me as a parent. And although this book wasn't revolutionary, it did spark more than a few ideas as well as encourage me to be intentional about showing them lots of love in their primary love language.

"The good news is that contemporary teenagers are looking to parents for guidance. In a recent survey, teens preorted that parents have more influence than peer do in the following areas: whether to attend college, wheather to attend religious service, whether to do homework, and whether to drink."
The word teenager is a fairly modern contruct. It used to be that there were children, and then there were adults. Teenagers in the current sense are still children, but they want to be treated like adults. They, like everyone else recieve and give love in these five different love languages: physical touch, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, and quality time. Though all of of these are important to everyone, each person has a primary love language. In order to have influence in our teenager's lives it is important that we keep their love tank full by speaking their primary love language. This book is a great read for anyone who either has a teenager, will have a teenager, or who works with teenagers.

I listened to this book.
For the most part, I think it is well done. It is the first one of this series that I have read/listened to.
I saw some reviews that didn’t like that he has written several versions of the book with slightly different angles. They think he is milking the idea. I disagree completely. Here is why: as a mother of a teen, I’m experiencing many challenges. So, when I went looking for books to give me supportive ideas to get through these years, this title popped up. I found it helpful. I might not have found this book or author if the book had just been titled “The 5 Love Languages”. I might have just skipped it because it wasn’t specifically about the subject for which I was seeking more knowledge.
Bottom line, I got a lot out of the book. If only I could remember more, it could be more helpful. While I was listening and things were fresh in my mind, I did well. But, now that I’ve moved on to other books, these ideas are no longer front and center and therefore no longer helpful. I will listen again and hopefully retain more. I will do that again soon.
It’s good. Helpful. I recommend it.

Most people associate the "love languages" books with trying to make sense of a spouse's needs within the context of marriage, but the "teenagers" version is equally useful, if not as well known. Lots of great parenting material in here, but the most useful part is the love languages test, which a teenager can take to reveal what their needs are to themselves and to their parent/guardian. This is really valuable info for a parent who feels they don't know how to relate to their teenager... The book is further divided by "language," so once a parent knows their teen's love language they can learn concrete ways to relate to them better. Good stuff.

Libro molto bello, profondo e utile a tutti quei genitori che faticano a trovare la connessione che vorrebbero con i propri figli e non capiscono perché

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I liked the book, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate, so I bought this - I am going to have a teenager soon. And I am extremely disappointed in my purchase. I found this to be vaguely racist and homophobic, and also just poorly written.

I don't really buy into the whole idea that everyone has one primary love language, but this has been the best parenting of teens books that I've read to date. It can be so hard to show love to someone who thinks they know everything and you and your husband are just crazy idiots. Not only did this book help with this, but it also helped with everything else that goes along with parenting a teenager. It's not perfect (cheesy examples) and has some parts that are skimmable, but if I highly recommend it to all parents navigating the teen years. I borrowed it from the library, but actually bought a hard copy for my husband to read.