Dealing With Today's Teens

For Bible Studies, Small Groups, or Your Whole Community!

A video seminar for small groups that offers the parents of teens and pre-teens help and hope for dealing with teenagers today. Every group and church has parents who are secretly dealing with rebellious teenagers caught up in the self-destructive nature of today's teen culture. Presenter and teacher Mark Gregston counsels such parents every day, including Christian leaders, pastors and parents leading good Christian homes. They don't have a clue how their teen so quickly got off track in life. Their teen has turned away from the values they hold dear, and has turned away from them as well. They fear for their child's future or even their life, but don't know where to turn. Nothing they've learned before seems to work.

In this encouraging video study, Mark offers proven answers and practical strategies for such parents and also parents who wish to prevent their pre-teens from falling prey to the culture in which they live.

Mark's system is loving and relational and helps maintain an open and honest relationship with the teenager while dealing with their behavior, lifestyle and choices in life.

You’ll find Mark's insights to be right on, since they are based on the practical reality of his daily work with struggling teenagers. You, too, can learn the key principles he’s successfully practiced and taught his own staff over the past 30 years.

Hundreds of churches and small groups have presented this seminar with attendance greater than they anticipated, since far more families have issues with their teenagers today and need the kind of help that Mark Gregston provides. Some are even making a weekend event of it instead of spitting it up over several weeks. And keep this in mind, this seminar can be shown again and again for years to come, or individual families can take it home and view it as the need arises. It's a powerful investment for your church, school or group library.

A Complete Seminar for 2 to 200 in a Box!

• Lifetime group viewing license
• Eight 20-minute lessons on DVD
• Facilitator Guide (no training required)
• Two copies of the 192-page Workbook
• Four 11 x 17 Posters (more can be ordered)
• 50 Bulletin Inserts (more can be ordered)
• 25 Reminder Cards (more can be ordered)
• 50 Postcards (more can be ordered)
• CD with reproducible promotional pieces and ads
• Demo and Promo DVD
• Audio CD (MP3 files) of all lessons
• Online viewing link of first two lessons

FREE WITH YOUR ORDER!
Receive Mark's new release,
Parenting Teens in a Confusing Culture,
as our free gift to keep, just for
previewing this study for 15 days.

100% Refund and Satisfaction Guarantee

If you preview this series and find that it won't fit the needs of your church or small group, then return it undamaged within 15 days and we’ll refund 100% of the amount you paid, including our shippping costs. Keep the book we've included as our free gift just for previewing the kit. If you decide to purchase the kit from us, remember that comes with a lifetime group viewing license and replacement privileges for any damaged DVD or CD in the kit.

This seminar is timeless! Show it again and again, year after year.
Charge a fee to those who attend to offset the costs.

About Mark Gregston

Mark Gregton is the Founder and Executive Director of Heartlight, a Christian residential counseling center for struggling teens, where he has helped turn around more than 3,000 teenagers who were spinning out of control. With this video seminar, Mark shares with parents the same concepts and principles he's utilitzed to help teens get back on the right track in life.

Mark is host of the daily Parenting Today's Teens radio broadcast heard on over 2,500 radio outlets. He is the author of several books on the topic of parenting teens, including: When Your Teen is Struggling, Parenting Teens in a Confusing Culture and What's Happening to My Teen? He writes a weekly blog (www.markgregston.com) for thousands of parents, plus he's a columnist on popular websites including OneNewsNow.com, OnePlace.com, Crosswalk.com, SelfHelp.com and Christianity.com. He is a popular conference speaker, a featured speaker for Focus on the Family, and a frequent guest on national media. Mark is married to Jan, who also co-directs Heartlight. They live in Longview, Texas and have two grown children.

What others are saying about this study...

"Mark overflows with biblical wisdom and practical insights gained from over three decades of helping parents like us. Implement these insights and God's blessing will be increasingly yours and your children's."

-- Dr. James MacDonald, Senior Pastor, Harvest Bible Church, Chicago

"Practical, relevant and effective help in a painful world for teens today."

-- Jon Rivers, Radio Host of the KLOVE Morning Show

"A rare blend of humor, heart and biblical wisdom."

-- Dr. John Trent, bestselling author of The Blessing

"Mark shares his secrets to survival and success in raising teenagers, offering parents a hand as they struggle for help."

-- Steve Largent, former U.S. Congressman and Pro Football Hall of Fame Member.

"Mark has his hand on the pulse of this generation of young people and offers Biblical insight, Godly counsel and practical steps to help parents and leaders capture the hearts of young people. Mark is the real deal."

-- Senior Pastor, Dallas, Texas

"It helped our parents and our ministry staff to better understand the culture and world that our teenagers live in. It also helped us to better understand the pressures that teenagers face, some of the thinking that goes on in their minds, and the reasons they act like they do."

-- Minister to Students, Palestine, Texas

"What makes Mark different is his years of living and working with struggling kids who have needs beyond the capabilities of their parents. He has a God-given gift to understand of how to help them."

-- Seminar participant

"Mark's logical approach to behavioral issues made addressing and correcting them rewarding and relatively simple."

-- Seminar participant

Lesson Outline

Lesson 1 - Understanding Your Teen's Needs

• Creating an Arena for Healthy Relationships That Meets Their Longing for Security
• They're Entitled and Overindulged on Many Levels
• They're Less Mature than Past Generations
• Really, They Want It All
• When Parenting Moves to Peerenting
• They Long for Significance and Security
• Creating an Arena for Healthy Relationships
• Committing to Not Disengage

Watch a Short Video Clip of This Lesson >>

Lesson 2 – Understanding Your Parenting Role

• Understanding Your Role in Parenting Your Teen
• Understanding Their Changing Perceptions
• My Child's Relational Style
• Embracing Your Teen
• Offering Rest for Their Soul
• Being Who God Has Called You To Be

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Lesson 3 – Understanding Your Teen's Behavior

• Why Do Teens Do What they do?
• Their Behavior is Goal Oriented
• Your Child's Needs
• Determining Factors in your Child's Understanding of Needs
• Establishing Boundaries

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Lesson 4 – Understanding Your Relationship

• When A Child’s Behavior Doesn’t Determine Their Behavior
• Does Bad Behavior Necessarily Equal a Bad Kid?
• When Value Isn’t Determined by Behavior
• Loving Your Child Unconditionally
• When a Child Fails
• Providing a Way of Restoration
• When Expectations Become the Standard and Alienate the Child

Watch a Short Video Clip of This Lesson >>

Lesson 5 – Understanding the Purpose of Pain

• How Pain Leads us to God's Blessing
• Pain Causes us to Examine Our Circumstances
• Pain Appears at Predictable Moments
• Ways to Avoid Pain
• The Godly Results of Facing Pain
• When Protecting Becomes Enabling

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Lesson 6 – Developing Boundaries For Your Teen

• Setting Parameters that Guide and Direct A Child
• Boundaries Define Us
• Boundaries Help us Set Our Priorities
• Directing Our Child's Path

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Lesson 7 – Understanding the Roots of Discipline

• Putting Rules and Consequences Into Effect
• Establishing Policies and Procedures Where There Were None
• Determining Your Beliefs
• Communicating the Rules
• Agreeing on the Consequences
• Examples

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Lesson 8– Issues of Control

• Helping a Child Make Decisions and Choices
• Who Is in Control?
• The Motivation for Control
• Under And Over Control
• Handing Over Control
• Lack of Limits and Wrong Decisions

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How to Use This Study

This study is designed for small groups, Sunday School classes or even community-wide events. You'll be surprised how many parents are secretly struggling with teen issues today. These issue go far deeper than rebellion, and they can be life-threatening. Parents, distraught by the change in their teen, may not reveal the difficulties they are experiencing, for fear that they will be seen as "bad parents." But you'll see it on their faces or that they suddenly look ten years older than the last time you saw them.  This seminar offers encouragement and practical tools for these parents that will help them beyond measure.

Can I Charge a Fee?  Yes, feel free to charge participants a fee for attending and to cover the workbook cost.  Fees formally range from $25-$50, which will also offset the cost of the seminar kit. We've provided everything in the kit that you will need to enlist a number of people for your event, including posters, bulletin inserts, ads, postcards and much more.

NO TRAINING IS REQUIRED TO BE A FACILITATOR FOR THIS PROGRAM.

Target Audience

Parents, grandparents, youth workers, counselors, church staff, and teachers will benefit from these lessons.