How to Handle Your Parents

In this little book, Jack Exum (Dad) addresses his favorite most challenging audience, teenagers! He loved every opportunity to he had to speak with them. Too often this group has been passed over by speakers except for the occasional warnings on ‘sex’ and ‘drugs.’ Teenagers are starving for someone to just listen and understand them, to be straight with them. He never forgot his teenage years and in this book, briefly tells his own story and shares much needed wisdom and guidelines.

He received hundreds of letters from pre-teens and teens. Many letters included some plea for help. He once surveyed 2500 young people, which helped him understand the severity of teenagers’ problems. Here are the results.

98% were active, believing Christians
98% attended church services on a regular basis
10% had smoked or do smoke ‘pot’
69% had drank or do drink alcoholic beverages
39% would abort a child (without conscience)
36% had allowed sex to ‘go too far’
6% believed other teenagers to be accurate on the subject of sex
84% had never had an in-depth discussion with their parents on (the subject of) sex
(Add to this the increasing number of teenage suicides.)

For teenagers: My prayer is that this little book will help you. Keep it available, read it once for the ‘head’, twice for the ‘heart’. ‘Hang on to it.’ You may not agree (right now) with some things that are said. Take the time to think about his words and then come back and read it again. “How to Handle Your Parents” will definitely help throughout the challenging years that lay ahead.