Back Door to Your Teen's Heart: Learning What They Need and Helping Them Find It

For parents and educators who struggle with monosyllabic, emotional, and sometimes sullen teens, there is hope. Melissa Trevathan and Sissy Goff have been on the adolescent front-line for 15 years, running a counseling ministry for teens. In their thoughtful, practical book, they share a concept that has worked for them time and again: the "back door."Just as Christ continually offers us a relationship with Him without forcing our response, parents, too, need to invite their children to participate in relationship. In The Back Door to Your Teen's Heart, Melissa and Sissy use examples from their counseling practice and time-proven principles to show how true and lasting connections with adolescents are forged.Some steps to the "back door" include...-- Unpredictability: giving kids choices, not announcements-- Softening: creating a place where teens feel safe and free to be honest-- Shaping: the role of mutual respect in molding a teen's life-- Strengthening: making the most of what God is doing in a teen's lifeThe authors' intelligent, honest, and sometimes wry prose makes The Back Door to Your Teen's Heart emiTrevathan, Melissa is the author of 'Back Door to Your Teen's Heart: Learning What They Need and Helping Them Find It' with ISBN 9780736908375 and ISBN 0736908374.