Dad's Great Advice for Teens: Stuff Every Teen Needs to Know About Parents, Friends, Social Media, Drinking, Dating, Relationships, and Finding Happiness

I highly recommend this book!I am a 50 year old dad with five children, including one who has already gone through his teen years, two who are currently in their teen years and two more who aren't teenagers yet -- with that context, I can tell you that this book is a valuable and entertaining read for both parents of teenagers (or teenagers-to-be) or for the teenagers themselves.The author offers 25+ important life lessons in easy to read, humorous and entertaining chapters. For example, there are important pieces of advice such as "Learn How to Apologize, "Have Deep, Meaningful Conversations" and "Step Into the Arena" which is about taking risks. These are really great pieces of advice for anyone, regardless of whether you're a parent, a teenager, or none of the above.The author also includes some unexpected but insightful chapters such as "Don't Follow All the Great Advice in this Book" which is about being realistic in your goal-setting and also not being too hard on yourself for missing your goals -- most self-help books unrealistically expect perfection and as a result fall short as relevant advice, but this book insightfully accommodates the fact that we generally don't make progress in a straight line but usually follow the messy and expected pattern of two steps forward and one step back.Lastly, the book pushes the reader to aspire to a higher purpose, which is great. The author encourages the teenager to be a "creator" and to "help somebody" and finally to "spend your 44 hours wisely" (in other words, the free time you have each week). These are all messages I want my children to hear.I don't often recommend books to my children, but I am happy to say that "Dad's Great Advice for Teens" is now one on the short list. You should definitely buy this book for yourself, your fellow parents and for your teenagers.Looking forward to the author's next "Dad's Great Advice" book!

An incredible and must-read book meant for teenagers and their parent(s) that is filled with 25 unconventional tips, lessons or advice in a humorous, inspirational, engaging, and knowledgable manner to enable young minds to lead a happy, successful, purposeful, and meaningless life.Of the 25 advice or insights provided these four resonated with me the most: spend your 44 hours wisely, don't make your parents happy, be contradistinctive, don't have too many friends, fail your way to success, and remember that you only see edited lives. Short, clear, and easy to follow advice replete with wit and banter makes it a wonderful book.

This is great advice! Quite a bit of it is stuff that I would tell my daughter or have already but, as every parent knows, most teens are more likely to follow advice that comes from anyone other than their parents! LolThis is well organized and easy for a teen to implement on their own. Which is also great for their self esteem, helps them be more responsible, and feel more “grown up”!It’s written in a conversational and nonjudgmental tone which I think teens will find easy to read and hopefully really take the advice to heart.As a mom who wants the absolute best for my daughter, I truly look forward to sharing this with her! As I previewed the book I actually learned things myself too. The breakdown of 44 hours per week is a great perspective change for anyone:)“The Chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.” Zig ZieglerI think I’m going to post that on my wall along with a few of the other great quotes from this book!I can’t say enough great things about this fantastic book!

This book was written for teen by a father of teens. As a parent of grown kids, I can identify completely with his advice. He gets to the point quickly not with a bunch of “Thou shalt nots” but in a short, direct way by using humor to bring the point home without being preachy. You can tell the author has had experience with his own kids, knowing just what needs to be addressed. It is comprehensive with 25 major tips and even 10 bonus tips. It even comes with a challenge checklist which is great. We learn by doing and being accountable. I wish I had this to give to my kids during their teen years.

This book of advice is FANTASTIC. I made it through some wild teen years, mostly by following all or most of this advice. But I didn't have a book to give this advice to me, I had to figure it out on my own.While this book has some amazing advice that can really help teens make it through their wild years intact, for the teens who are super-innocent, this may not be a hit, because it does deal frankly with all levels of of situations teens will deal with. On the one hand, is anyone truly innocent (or if they are, maybe they will have to deal with these types of situations so this book would be good), on the other hand, this book could legitimately shatter their innocence. Hard to say.This is certainly a good collection of advice, which many teens would be wise to listen to. Some parents won't appreciate how far the author goes; it is a hard subject to deal with but one that needs to be discussed and boundaries put into place.

When my kids were teens my wife and I tried to give life advice to our teens as our parents had given to us. Our kids didn't always take to this advice because - in their eyes - parents have no credibility so their advice has little practical worth or we "don't get what life is like". What we found is that the words of other adults carried more weight - even when the words were the same as ours - and the kids were more likely to follow their words to the wise. I look at this book like that. There is nothing revolutionary here but the advice is solid, it's in bite-sized pieces so it's pithy but not preachy, and comes across in a tone that seems like a caring parent not a dictator is giving the advice. A good gift for your teen (or even your college student). Recommend.

My teenage boy devoured this book ! Very well explained and detailed. Has a great understanding of teenagers and how to reach to them. Great read for parents too.

Great book for a teenager. As a single parent of a adolescent I can tell you sometimes kids need to “hear it” from someone else. I allowed my son to read it on his own and did not offer my two cents so that he can take in the authors words from his own perspective.