7 Vital Skills for Parenting Teen Boys and Communicating with Your Teenage Son

Proven Positive Parenting Tips for Raising Teenage Boys and Preparing Your Teenager for Manhood

By: Frank Dixon

Narrated by: Shawn Lennox

Parents of teenage boys often feel like they don’t have the power to steer their child’s life in the right direction. The best strategy is to anticipate problems before they arise.

If your teenage son has gone quiet, answers in one word, forgets everything, pushes limits, and rides emotional waves you don’t recognize—you’re not failing. You’re parenting a teen boy in a season of massive physical, emotional, and social change.

This audiobook gives you practical, positive parenting tools for understanding teenage boys and communicating with your teenage son—so you can build trust, reduce conflict, and help him grow into a respectful, confident young man.

Inside, you’ll learn how to help your son:

• Understand puberty changes and why his body and emotions can feel “out of control”
• Navigate teen brain development so you respond with insight instead of frustration
• Improve communication and listening without lectures, nagging, or power struggles
• Open up and self-express beyond grunts, silence, or one-word answers
• Build self-esteem and handle insecurities about appearance, performance, and fitting in
• Manage stress, mood swings, and emotional regulation in healthier ways
• Use positive reinforcement and conflict-resolution tools that actually work with teen boys
• Teach responsibility, accountability, and follow-through without constant reminders
• Balance independence and safety while keeping trust strong

If you want a healthier relationship with your son—and a clear plan for guiding him through the teen years—press play and start building skills that will last into adulthood.

©2020 Go Make a Change (P)2020 Go Make a Change

Minimally Helpful

This barely touched the surface. The author failed to go in depth. This is a classic example of telling and not showing. 

Helpful Overview

Short and sweet straight to the point. Great book for a quick overview about teenage boys. Very helpful. I have already recommended this book to my friend.

Good basics

It was a good quick review, however very brief. There's hardly any details of strategies or examples.

Helpful

Good tips for dealing with teenage boys. Helpful reminders! Will apply some of the tips with my own.

Mostly good, but beware

Mostly good parenting advice. Had some issue with chapter 5 on breaking stereotypes. The author suggested we use gender neutral pronouns with young children, going as far to say we should use “them/they” instead of he/she. I agree that boys need to know it’s okay to be sensitive, to cry, to show emotion, BUT I do not agree that we should pretend there are no biologically instinctual difference between male and female humans that make them act in different ways (protector vs nurturer, etc). We are born with intrinsically different chromosomes that make us the gender we are. Sure, that gender might be on a spectrum, but male and female are different and that’s okay! Actually, it’s not just okay, it’s essential to the success of our species that we be different. Our differences should be celebrated…we should not be teaching our children to pretend otherwise.