Rich Wilkerson is president of Main stream, a ministry for youth workers. In this volume he offers practical advice to parents who need guidance and support during their children's turbulent teen years. He gives rules ("Double dates should be started in the tenth grade") that some parents may find too simplistic, but his advice on dating, drugs, communication, and spiritual leadership is firmly grounded on spiritual principles.
With a special chapter on the confusing junior high years, as well as up-to-date insights on the increasingly bawdy sexual revolution, Wilkerson's book will be especially helpful to parents who are new Christians, temporarily frustrated, or desperate. Parents who have healthy relationships with their teenage children will gain no new insights, but those facing rough times will find encouraging reminders of the guiding spiritual principles that often become hidden from view in a storm.