Like Dew Your Youth: Growing Up with Your Teenager

by Eugene H. Peterson

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 1994

Overview

“Adolescence is a gift,” writes author Eugene Peterson. “God’s gift, to the parent in middle-age. This ’gift’ dimension of adolescence is my subject. For adolescence is not only the process designed by the Creator to bring children to adulthood, it is also designed by the Creator to provide something essential for parents during correspondingly critical years in their lives. Christian parents are most advantageously placed to recognize, appreciate, and receive this gift God so wisely provides.”

In Like Dew Your Youth Peterson shows how adolescence is a time for parents to enjoy a deeper, richer relationship with their children and for both parents and children to grow in their relationships with Jesus Christ. In addition to its wealth of positive, effective ways to deal with many of the problems and pains of growing up, this insightful book offers an understanding of parent-adolescent relationships that will help promote an atmosphere of communication, growth, frankness, forgiveness, love, and harmony in the home. Study questions at the end of each chapter help readers apply Peterson’s practical, Bible-centered teaching. There are also tips for using this material within the framework of parental support groups.

Like Dew Your Youth provides a much-needed balm against the fear and anxiety bred by traditional views of this exciting period of life and properly orients parents and teenagers within this God-provided environment for spiritual growth.

Key Features

• Helps parents to view their son or daughter's teen years from a refreshing perspective
• Offers an understanding of parent-adolescent relationships that will promote an atmosphere of communication, trust, frankness, forgiveness, love and harmony at home
• Includes study questions at the end of each chapter to help apply the practical, biblically-based teaching offered

Contents

• The Gift of Adolescence
• "I'll Dress the Way I Want!"
• "I'm Not Going to Church!"
• "You Can't Make Me!"
• "You Wouldn't Understand!"
• "You Never Trust Me!"
• "If You Loved Me, You'd Let Me!"
• "You're Nothing but a Hypocrite!"
• "I Don't Know What I Want to Do!"
• "Can I Have the Car Tonight?"
• "You Aren't Going to Tell Me What to Do!"
• "You'll Never Forgive Me!"

Endorsements

The best little book on the topic this reviewer has come across yet. . . Peterson knows what he's talking about, and he offers helpful advice. . . If you are a parent of teenagers, know parents of teenagers or want to start a discussion or support group for parents of teens, this is the perfect book. I can't praise it highly enough.

St. Anthony Messenger

Product Details

• Title: Like Dew Your Youth: Growing up with Your Teenager
• Author: Eugene H. Peterson
• Edition: Rev. ed.
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 1994
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 117
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Youth › Religious life; Parent and teenager
• ISBNs: 9780802801166, 0802801161
• Resource ID: LLS:DEWYOUTH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:16:55Z

About Eugene H. Peterson

Eugene H. Peterson (1932–2018) was a pastor, scholar, author, and poet. He wrote more than thirty books, including his widely acclaimed paraphrase of the Bible, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, his memoir, The Pastor, and numerous works of biblical spiritual formation, including Run with the Horses, also available in a commemorative edition. Peterson was founding pastor of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland, where he served for twenty-nine years before retiring in 1991. With degrees from Seattle Pacific, New York Theological Seminary, and Johns Hopkins University, he served as professor of spiritual theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, until retiring in Lakeside, Montana, in 2006.